Petr Kovar
Technical Writer at GNOME
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPetr Kovar is a seasoned technical writer and documentation leader with 18 years’ experience crafting and coordinating documentation for open source and enterprise cloud projects. He has led documentation efforts at GNOME, OpenStack, and Red Hat, and currently focuses on cloud-native and Rancher-related documentation at SUSE while building automated docs workflows. A long-time community manager and translation coordinator, Petr connects corporate and volunteer contributors, overseeing translation platforms and regional localization teams. His hands-on contributions to the prominent openstack-manuals repository and experience running documentation releases and meetups underline a rare blend of program management, docs-as-code practice, and community stewardship. Notably, he pairs information architecture skills with grassroots engagement—organizing hackfests and onboarding translators to make complex software globally accessible.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Klasicke a spanelske gymnazium (Klasicke gymnasium) v BrneUniversity of Hradec KrálovéBachelor of Arts - BA, Information and Library Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Information and Library Studies at Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Social Studies
English, Czech
Github Skills (6)
rs10
postinstall10
installer10
installers10
documentation10
openstack9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/openstack-manuals
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
OpenStack Manuals. Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:66 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Petr's contributions primarily focus on updating and expanding the documentation within the `openstack/openstack-manuals` repository. They have been involved in adding links to documentation, updating the RDO installation procedures, creating new sections such as "additional-services" and modifying existing guides by removing outdated content. These changes include adjustments to existing installation guides, updating command outputs and providing more general edits to the install guides for the OpenStack manuals.
manualsopendevopenstack
rh-writers/rh-writers.github.io
Sep 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 7 months
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