Hi Team!

Hi Team!

This is Gautam, tech writer for the JCompare project.

When Tushar put forward the idea, I immediately jumped to it. The reasons were:

• Collaborative approach: At work-place, we work with a team that is physically localised. However, reading the blogs of some of the top tech writers has convinced me that in future, we would be working on projects in which the developers, testers & tech writers would be located in different countries or even continents. JCompare will teach me how to manage this.
• Freedom to experiment: At work-place, we are bound by client guidelines in document structure and formatting. Moreover, tight deadlines leave little scope for experimentation. JCompare would give me an opportunity to try different approaches and tools.
• Wiki & blog: I feel that a wiki + blog-based approach has immense potential for product development (& documentation), since it allows users to directly get in touch with the team and share their inputs, feedback and criticism.

I know Tushar & Chandrakant personally. Welcome aboard, Rajath! Your blog looks interesting. I look forward to more articles.

Project Idea

The idea came from the urge of creating something new and learning new things. Gautam seemed interested and joined quickly. Chandra also liked the idea and joined.

The idea is to create a new product. The product will be developed using open source methodology. This will provide opportunity for the team members to learn the open source way of developing software product.

One more goal was also to learn new things in respective technical fields. Gautam is a technical writer, Chandra is a Quality Analyst, I am a developer. We all can learn new things is our own respective fields by applying newer but proven technologies and methods to this project.

While searching for a hosting provider and collaboration tools I zeroed on Google Code as our host for the project and while digging the features I was happy like a kid to see the plethora of features offered by the service.

Wiki
Issue Tracker
Source and Wiki Version Control

We also started this blog for the project
We used Google Groups to create mailing lists for the project

The spirit is high, energy is flowing and we are excited to delve into the actual development to start in this project.

This will be a project developed by contributed time of each team member in his own time and space.

with regards
Tushar Joshi, Nagpur

First Post

JCompare blog first post.