OS Kitchen, LLC Cooks Up Documentation

Boulder, Colorado -- The Open Source Kitchen, a consulting firm
specializing in technical writing, announces its presence to the
software industry this weekend by releasing 35 manual pages
documenting a popular free software package, pilot-link. OS Kitchen,
LLC was created with the goals of providing an important service to
businesses, improving the quality of documentation in free software
projects, and keeping food on the writers' plates.

The importance of quality documentation in the form of manuals,
tutorials, on-line help systems and books is clearly demonstrated by
the costs of providing technical support to customers. "Creating
useful documentation is a necessary part of creating a good
relationship with customers; the more successful companies all have
strong resources for their users beyond someplace to call for help,"
says OS Kitchen, LLC organizer Chris Riddoch.  "We make practical,
usable, technical writing."

The company has reached the point where it is available to accept
commercial projects and work closely with companies to develop the
documentation end-users need.

The writers of the firm are dedicated, professional, and highly
educated.  "These manual pages are only the beginning," Riddoch
says. "The greatest flaw of the free-form Open Source development
model is that hundreds of programs in the Free Software world lack
documentation -- programmers rarely put the effort out to write
documentation.  We will dedicate a significant percentage of our
energy to documenting Free and Open Source software."  The company
will accept sponsorships to focus on particular free/open source
software projects.

The manual pages to be released this weekend document a popular
collection of programs that allow GNU/Linux users to use PalmOS-based
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) -- such as a Handspring Visor(tm) or
3Com Palmpilot(tm) -- with their desktop systems.  In addition to
consulting for commercial software developers, OS Kitchen, LLC will
continue to contribute documentation to GNU/Linux projects in the form
of manuals, tutorials, HOWTOs, and eventually books.

The name of the venture, OS Kitchen, is inspired by one of the
writers' experience as a professional chef.  The broad interests and
backgrounds of the staff provide the Open Source Kitchen with useful
examples and metaphors in their technical writing.

OS Kitchen, LLC, can be contacted by email at chris@oskitchen.com.
Their website is at http://www.oskitchen.com/.