All of these were mentioned the WEBINAR: Using Open Source Platforms to Gain Knowledge for a Professional Advantage.
See O-NET OnLine Summary Report for Technical Writers for information about Technial Writing and its future growth.
GitHub and Bitbucket have a public, cloud version and enterprise versions for companies that want to use it privately.
- GitHub Recently purchased by Microsoft
- Bitbucket Owned by Atlassian the company that makes JIRA and Confluence among other things.
- Glitch
- Gerrit Developed by Google.
Social code services rely you having a source control software package on your local machine. By far the most popular is Git.
- Git Source Control Management (SCM)
- Mercurial SCM Not as popular as Git but works with Bitbucket.
- List of resources for learning Git
- Interactive online tutorial that requires no install
- Atom, a free open source ASCII editor
- Sublime, a popular paid ASCII editor
- Original, Markdown creator
- Markdown flavors
- GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec
- Ranked list of static file generator software
- GitHub Pages + Jeykll for fast blog
- Lightweight Markup Languages: This Is Why You Should Use AsciiDoc Over Regular Markdown Not an endorsement of AsciiDoc.