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Thanks, lovely idea. You might have missed the part where I'm a humanist devoid of practical skills. Once the free software movement realizes it needs someone really good at analyzing modernist literature, I'm all in
I'm not in the free software movement, though I'm trying to be (my job drains all my will to continue to write code after work). Right now all my externally derived meaning has to come from trying to raise children with as little trauma as possible.
We software people are generally not good at things like that. We are also generally not good at knowing what kinds of software we could write to help you, or people who have done other things you have done. We are also generally not good at writing things that regular people read to understand what we've done.
For real, contributing documentation to otherwise excellent open source software projects would be something really valuable that you could probably do right now.
Honestly the free software devs do really need more skills in that vein but that doesn't necessarily mean its a viable career path
I'm curious how - writing documentation seems like it would be hard without the prerequisite IT knowledge. Even if it's not a career path, I'm also always thinking about ways to feel like I contribute more.