Meet the Team¶
Our conference is run by a dedicated team consisting mostly of volunteers. This page outlines the folks who are helping get things done, and what their roles are.
Folks¶
Eric Holscher¶
Eric is one of the cofounders of Write the Docs, and also one of the cofounders of the Read the Docs documentation platform. He is the primary chair of the Portland conference, and loves to talk all things docs :)
Samuel Wright¶
Sam has been organizing Write the Docs conferences for around a decade now. He lives in Berlin unless he’s off to a conference or death metal festival somewhere, both of which happen more often than you’d think. Sam does various documentation things at various places, and is into making computers do the boring bits of writing docs so he can work on the fun bits. Often available for part time work.
Mikey Ariel¶
Mikey is the documentation czar for Write the Docs in Europe. She is an avid dancer as well as singer, and has probably traveled across more of Europe than you have. Mikey is a senior technical writer at Red Hat living in Prague.
Primary Roles¶
Conference chair - Eric Holscher
Code of conduct response - See code of conduct page
Speaker coordinator - Samuel Wright
Unconference coordinator - Jennifer Rondeau
Lightning Talk coordinator - Rose Williams
Infrastructure coordinator - Mikey Ariel
Swag coordinator - Mikey Ariel
Job Fair coordinator - Eric Holscher
Welcome Wagon and Helpdesk coordinators - Christy Lutz, Mo Nishiyama
Sponsorship coordinator - Eric Holscher
Writing Day coordinator - Rose Williams
Volunteer coordinator - Alex Fornuto
Emcee - Andrea Kao
Social media coordinator - Mo Nishiyama
Support and Website infrastructure - Sasha Romijn
You can read descriptions of all the roles in our Event Roles doc.
