Write the Docs Europe 2015
2015-08-31..2015-09-01
Prague, Czechia
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Judas Priest Ate my Scrum Master | Paul Adams | 30m |
Claim: a measurable gap in value perception separates engineers and technical writers, backed by applying Brooks, Conway, Pareto and Lehman laws to docs and… | ||
| Before the Docs: Writing for User Interfaces | Beth Aitman | 26m |
Shows concrete changes and results: an HR app exposes internal names so users see request view record instead of book a holiday, Google changes incoming to… | ||
| How to Write an Email | Elijah Caine | 28m |
Explains why email still fails and gives concrete fixes: a three pillars structure (organized, easy to process, attention-grabbing), concrete examples of bad… | ||
| Back to the Future: What Can Documentarians Learn From The Past? | Jennifer Rondeau | 31m |
A history-driven argument shows how early documentation practices shape choices today: archives of Altair and PDP‑8 manuals are loose‑leaf binders updated by… | ||
| Lightning Talks - Day Two | Christoph mono | 33m |
A grab bag of concrete outcomes and tools: a recording tool for website walkthroughs is WalkHub rebuilt in Go offered as a deploy with a Docker image and a… | ||
| All roads might not lead to docs | Christina Elmore | 31m |
Argues that documents must have one clear purpose—reference inform teach—or they betray every goal they try to serve. Gives concrete examples (Asana keyboard… | ||
| Screencasting 101 | Diana Potter | 11m |
Clear, actionable workflow with tools and gotchas: start with how‑tos/walkthroughs, write a conversational script and record audio first, keep a consistent mic… | ||
| Writing for what Matters | Zdenek Nemec | 16m |
Argues documentation must be a thinking medium that documents domain semantics and data not just HTTP mechanics, showing an API platform with over 170 APIs and… | ||
| The Quest for Scientific Credit for Software Documentation | Anna Jaruga | 24m |
Look for a concrete claim about how documentation should earn scholarly credit (for example DOIs for docs or citation counts for documentation), evidence such… | ||
| MacGyvering your Docs | Paul Roeland | 31m |
Argues that activism methods scale documentation: map a concrete Theory of Change (backward steps, thresholds like converting 25% or even 5% of developers)… | ||
| Gardening Open Docs | Florian Scholz, Jean-Yves Perrier | 26m |
A case study of MDN shows concrete systems and results: a homegrown Django backend called Kuma serves 10,000+ English documents with about 1,000 editors per… | ||
| Free Your Mind, and Your Docs Will Follow | Patrick Keegan | 16m |
Claim: documentation improves when teams audit your rules and treat most style constraints as guidelines not mandates — aim for under 10% rules. Examples: a… | ||
| Documenting your Story: Crafting a good presentation | Chris Ward | 12m |
Limit slides to five meaningful points, use high-contrast readable visuals and copyright-cleared high-res images, and put supporting detail in notes so the… | ||
| Inclusive Tech Docs: TechComm Meets Accessibility | Radina Matic | 31m |
Work on KA Lite improves offline Khan Academy videos and exposes practical fixes: captions and transcripts, semantic HTML/ARIA, proper alt text, color-contrast… | ||
| Generating docs from APIs | Jamie Hannaford | 30m |
Builds a small Flask app that serves a cat API, proves curl requests return expected JSON, and shows a screencast of the server working. Central claim: define… | ||
| Lightning Talks - Day One | 31m | |
Lightning lightning rounds report concrete takeaways: Alchemy CMS on Rails claims strict separation of content and markup for flexible outputs; documentation… | ||
| Tested & Correct: How to Make Sure Your Documentation Keeps Working | Adam Dangoor | 24m |
Argues that documentation must be treated like code: docs get unit-test-like checks that run automatically every few minutes, catching broken installs, 404s… | ||
| Visual Documentation Language | Sonja Heinen | 27m |
Claims that area 17 extracts scene gist in 30 ms, demonstrates a Google image captioner that generates "two pizzas sitting on top of a stovetop" for an unseen… | ||
| Whatchamacallit: Controlled Vocabularies for Technical Writers | Emilie Boillat | 31m |
Controlled vocabularies cut retrieval time and restore context by forcing consistent terms, indexing with curated labels (Stack Overflow), publishing a… | ||
| Imposter No More... | Riona MacNamara | 31m |
Argues that impostor feelings disappear when work shifts from job titles to measurable outcomes and values, showing concrete moves: reduce cost of user… | ||
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