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'Write the Docs' is a Conference for People Who Write Software Docs (Video)
There is this guy, Eric Holscher, who has been doing FOSS development for quite a while. He's been on GitHub since 2008, and got involved in Gittip not long after it started in 2012. Not long after that, Eric started thinking about how open source software developers have all kinds of conferences and have many communities they can join and learn from each other, while those who write documentation, especially for FOSS, typically work all alone in a vacuum.
So why not have a conference for documentation writers (and developers who want to hook up with writers who can help them make high-quality docs)? Don't limit it to FOSS, but make sure that's the emphasis. Call the conference 'Write the Docs' and have the first conference in Portland, Oregon, in 2013. Which is exactly what Eric did. A year later, a second 'Write the Docs' conference is scheduled in Budapest (Hungary) at the end of March, and the next Portland conference is set for May 5.
So why not have a conference for documentation writers (and developers who want to hook up with writers who can help them make high-quality docs)? Don't limit it to FOSS, but make sure that's the emphasis. Call the conference 'Write the Docs' and have the first conference in Portland, Oregon, in 2013. Which is exactly what Eric did. A year later, a second 'Write the Docs' conference is scheduled in Budapest (Hungary) at the end of March, and the next Portland conference is set for May 5.
That's good for you.
I'm not going to read anything past the headline. Just like I don't read the documentation for anything...
nobodyhere on /. needs and stupid doucmentgation specialkists! All porgrammers sort their salte are smart & skilled enough to wright great documenation in there code comments!
Paying technical wrighters to documend code is a giant waist of money!
Is a conference for writing documentation advertised with a video.
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There's a ton of these conferences already, though maybe not with the FOSS emphasis. Here's one that's going on as we speak....and there's another every few weeks. There's a whole tech comm community if you're willing to go look for it.
I was going to go, but there were no directions, so I posted to a couple of forums. I got two conflicting answers, and one guy who called me a dumbass for not knowing and suggested I start my own conference if I didn't like the one they were having.
stupid headline is a comment by an anonymous coward who thinks the headline is stupid.
The link for the Portland conference is very clearly for *last years* conference (see the pesky '2013' in the URL??). The correct link is:
http://conf.writethedocs.org/na/2014/index.html
It is being held on May 5th and 6th, of *2014*.
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I'm looking for documentation about how to organize a conference about writing documentation, as well as docs that describe how such docs were created.
Thanks.
Shouldn't that be the title?
....source code? i.e. http://abstractionphysics.net/...
Last year's conference had a mix of Python programmers (perhaps they predominated), technical writers with a strong technical focus (e.g., API documentation, developer documentation), and others (customer support, UI designers, etc.). I found it one of the most informative technical writing conferences I have attended. So I am going again this year without hesitation.