Write the Docs
Write the Docs is an organization and community dedicated to the art and science of software documentation.
The Write the Docs community includes programmers, technical writers, developer advocates, customer support, marketers, and anyone else who writes or uses software documentation.[1]
Events[edit]
Write the Docs organizes several yearly conferences[2]. 2020 conferences include:
- Write the Docs Portland 2020, August 9-11
- Write the Docs Prague 2020, October 18-20 2020
- Write the Docs Australia & India 2020, December 3-4 2020
Meetup events[edit]
Write the Docs supports local, volunteer-run events in different cities. Local meetup events take place in cities across North America, Europe, Oceania, and Asia.[3]
Concepts[edit]
Documentarians[edit]
Write the Docs makes a practice of defining a documentation-specific usage of "documentarians" to broaden the practice of documentation from a job title to an "independent identity".[4]
A documentarian is someone who cares about documentation and communication in the software industry, regardless of job title.
— writethedocs.org
Docs as code[edit]
Building on the interdisciplinary focus of Write the Docs, the concept of "docs as code" is often central to Write the Docs meetups. "Docs as code" refers to “writing documentation with the same tools as code” including plain text markup, code reviews, version control, and issue trackers".[5]
History[edit]
Write the Docs was established in 2013 by Troy Howard, Eric Redmond, and Eric Holscher as an extension of Read the Docs, an open sourced free software documentation hosting platform.[6] The first Write the Docs conference took place in Portland, Oregon on April 8-9, 2013.[7][8][9]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://www.writethedocs.org/
- ↑ https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/
- ↑ https://www.writethedocs.org/meetups/
- ↑ "Documentarians — Write the Docs". www.writethedocs.org. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
- ↑ Cleary, Y. (2019). "The Discourse of Component Content Management on Technical Communication Practitioner Blogs". IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm): 226–231. doi:10.1109/ProComm.2019.00046. ISBN 978-1-7281-2566-4. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Towey, Ingrid. "Tips and top presentations from Write the Docs Portland 2017". Opensource.com. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
- ↑ https://www.writethedocs.org/origin-story/
- ↑ https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/
- ↑ Patterson, Lois R (15 April 2013). "Conference Review: Inaugural Write the Docs Conference". TechWhirl. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
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