The Open Documentation Initiative was launched in May 2021. We continuously keep onboarding guides to help you engaging with our authors directly. Now we also have a home in the community to make announcements and to discuss the initiative itself.
Open Documentation Initiative? What’s that?
Are you a developer? Were you ever stuck in the documentation? Then look for the Edit button in the HTML viewer of SAP Help Portal. If it’s available, the guide you’re looking at was already onboarded for the Open Documentation Initiative. The initiative’s focus is to offer a Markdown version of especially our developer guides on github.com, so that you can engage with the responsible author in a discussion, or even make a contribution.
Why should I join the group?
What we didn’t have so far was a home for the initiative itself, a place to announce new features, newly onboarded guides, and to discuss the initiative itself. Well here it is:
The Open Documentation Initiative Interest Group
For example, have a look at our post about the new badges we offer. By registering for the group, you won’t miss any updates, and I invite you to share your experiences with the initiative, or to start a discussion about it.
Who can join the group?
Anybody really. But to encourage especially those who already provided feedback through GitHub to our documentation, I’d like to shout out to all who already received one of our community badges related to the initiative:
Iwona Hahn Jitendra Kansal Thomas Jung Santiago Gonzalez Mota Stefania Santimbrean Bärbel Winkler Vladimir GERSHANOV Ruslan Kruchkou Antonio Maradiaga Rafael Caziraghi Eder Matienzo Mohamed Yosufdeen J M H Patrick Van Nierop Stef Noyens Enric Castella Burak Yilmaz Alexandra Hofmann Raymond dela Luna Robert Eijpe Sebastian Esch José Reynaldo Bautista Palomino Kushagra Tandon Ayush Budhwani Jacques Maeda Kevin Riedelsheimer Marco Holzwarth Michael Shea Pascal D’Agate Pieter Janssens Stefan Grünert Thomas Wiegand Wolfgang Röckelein Michael Czadankiewicz Gregor Wolf Edwin Erdiansyah Raz Korn Dragomir Anachkov Jens Klingelhoefer Milton Reuben Rodrigues Nicolai Schoenteich Christian Drumm Piotr Janczuk Swadhin Patel Naresh Kumar Neetesh Pratap Singh Sakshi Gupta Laurens Deprost Sergei Haller Tom Schmelzer Abul Ehtesham Jacob Tan Mahesh Palavalli Nils Lutz Amaury VAN ESPEN Marian Zeis Jens Haley Vladimirs Semikins amo ntella Carlos Delgado Dominic Holzwarth Gregor Wolf Martin Stenzig Pascal Gutheil Svetoslav Pandeliev Benjamin Krencker Sven Kohlhaas Samuele Barzaghi Helen Vernon Vadim Klimov Vivian Venter Robert Fels Santiago González Madhusudhanan Perumalswamy Morten Wittrock Mio Yasutake
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Learn More
- Watch our introduction video (< 5mins).
- Use tag open-documentation-initiative to find all blog posts about this initiative.
- Join interest group Open Documentation Initiative.
