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¶
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.
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.
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 :)
Kelly O’Brien¶
Kelly runs the Write the Docs newsletter, and has been organizing the North America conference for the last 3 years. She has a day job at Kayako where she is the Self-Service Content Manager.
Sasha Romijn¶
Sasha is a Django and Python developer, and is our inclusivity, diversity, and well-being champion. Based in Amsterdam but traveling throughout Europe, Sasha has been sharing insight and helping communities and individuals become better versions of themselves, as well as co-authoring positive projects such as Happiness Packets and the “Less Obvious Conference Checklist”.
Primary Roles¶
You can read descriptions of all the roles in our Event Roles doc.
Filled Roles¶
Conference chair - Mikey Ariel
Swag coordinator - Mikey Ariel
Speaker wrangler - Sam Wright
Infrastructure chair - Sam Wright
Writing Day coordinator - Kelly O’Brien
Lightning Talk coordinator - Nik Blanchet
Communication chair - Mikey Ariel
Volunteer coordinator - Sasha Romijn
Sponsorship lead - Eric Holscher
Job Fair coordinator - Eric Holscher
Boat ride coordinator - Mikey Ariel
Unconference coordinator - Kelly O’Brien
Welcome Wagon coordinators - Beth Aitman and Daniel Beck
Social media chair - Chris Ward
Explore Prague coordinator - Jakub Mikulas
Emcee - Brian (bex) Exelbierd