Schedule

Schedule

Write the Docs is more than a conference. Each year we organize a wide range of events so that people can come together, collaborate, and learn from each other in different ways.

Sunday, August 9

The Writing Day and Welcome Reception will be held at the Online, https://hopin.to/ . Your login will be emailed to you before the event..

Writing Day

8:00
Platform opens
9:30
Morning introduction - Introduction to Sprints & Project Introductions
9:45
Team up and start working
12:30
Lunch Break
5:00
End of Writing Day

Monday, August 10

This is the main event! Hear from lots of interesting folks about all things documentation. We will have talks all day, and an unconference session running in parallel in the afternoon.

Conference Talks

8:00
Platform opens
9:00
Write the Docs Team - Introduction to Write the Docs
9:45
Unconference Starts
9:45
Alexandra White - Moving beyond empathy: a11y in documentation
10:30
Lucy Carey - Globalise the docs
11:15
Anni Bond - Writing Backwards: Documenting the End-of-Life of a Product
12:00
Matthew Baldwin - Read the Rules: What technical writers can learn from board game design
12:45
Lunch (60 mins)
1:45
Lightning Talks (30 mins)
2:15
Jessica Garson - Creating Quality Sample Code
3:00
Colin Dean - Building a content-focused, scientific document authoring workflow for Data Scientists and Engineers alike
3:45
Brooke Wayne - Don’t Fear Migration! How to Successfully Move Docs to a New Tool
4:30
Dan Gunter - Where Documentation, Cloud-hosted Interactive Tutorials and Continuous Integration Testing Intersect
5:15
Day 1 wraps up
7:00
Social Event
10:00
Social Event Ends

Unconference

The unconference sessions run in parallel to the main conference talks.

  • Where: Online, https://hopin.to/ . Your login will be emailed to you before the event., Chat area

  • When: 9:45am-5:00pm PST

  • Details: Unconference

Monday Night Social

The official Write the Docs social! Further details will be announced later, but expect some music and games, and bring your favorite beverage along to the computer :)

Tuesday, August 11

And the conference goes on!

Conference Talks

8:00
Platform opens
9:00
Luca Janssens - Finding the line: Balancing business continuity and documentation debt
9:45
Job Fair Starts
9:45
Kateryna Osadchenko - Collaborating with teams on content strategy planning: pitfalls and best practices
10:30
Luc Perkins - Model-view-docs: taming large-scale documentation projects using structured data
11:15
Avi Flax - Set your data free with model-based architecture diagramming
12:00
Ryan Paul - Documentation as an application: enabling interactive content that is tailored to the user
12:45
Lunch (60 mins)
1:45
Lightning Talks (30 mins)
2:15
Unconference Starts
2:15
Sally Stumbo - Walking Backwards: Tracing the New Customer Journey from Finish to Start to Help Shape Content
3:00
Paul Logan - The Search for Search
3:45
Shavindri Dissanayake (Shavi) - Why SDK Docs Matter — And What I’m Doing About It!
4:30
Closing address
5:00
Conference Ends :(

Job Fair

We’ll be holding a job fair on Tuesday morning!

  • Where: Online, https://hopin.to/ . Your login will be emailed to you before the event., Chat area

  • When: 9:45am-12pm PST

  • Details: Job Fair

Unconference

The unconference sessions run in parallel to the main conference talks.

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