Erin McKean
where else to find them
website:http://www.erinmckean.com
github:emckean
bluesky:emckean.bsky.social
mastodon:@emckean@xoxo.zone
speakerdeck:emckean
what they talk about
all 9 in the filters
where they keep going back
- Open Source Summit Europe2 editions2024–2025
- Write the Docs Portland2 editions2018–2022
all 12 in the filters
on a stage with
- Daniel D. Beckonce
- Kassandra Dhillononce
who talks about the same things
- Megan Byrd-Sanicki6 talks
- Eric Holscher16 talks
- Carolyn Stransky Vohr20 talks
- Swapnil Ogale5 talks
- Lana Novikova4 talks
- Alejandra Quetzalli5 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Docs Tools for OSS Maintainers | Open Source Summit Japan + AI_dev: Open Source GenAI & ML Summit + Automotive Linux Summit 2025 | 2025-12-08 |
A practical toolkit distilled from Google Season of Docs work with about 70 projects: a web-based Docs Advisor that maps resources and timelines into four… | ||
| OSS Documentation Workshop | Open Source Summit Europe 2025 | 2025-08-25 |
Workshop presents concrete tools and processes drawn from Google Season of Docs with 130 projects and 200 case studies condensed into resources at… | ||
| Learning by Example: Highlights from Google Season of Docs | TechDocsCon @ Open Source Summit Europe 2024 | 2024-09-16 |
Google Season of Docs gives grants to open source projects to hire technical writers, producing 73 case studies since 2021 and 11 new orgs in 2024. Case… | ||
| Learning by Example: Highlights from Google Season of Docs | Open Source Summit Europe 2024 | 2024-09-16 |
Google Season of Docs gives grants to open source projects to hire technical writers and publishes 73 case studies since 2021 that report concrete outcomes… | ||
| Measuring Documentation Success in Open Source | Write the Docs Portland 2022 | 2022-05-22 |
Google’s Season of Docs 2021 changes include treating orgs as partners, funding projects with $5–15k grants, and asking orgs to pick metrics; program report… | ||
| docs docs docs | gRPC Conf 2020 | 2020-07-27 |
Documentation drives adoption: 72% of developers cite established policies/docs when choosing open source and 93% report incomplete docs as pervasive. Concrete… | ||
| Docs Advocacy is Dev Advocacy | DevRelCon Earth 2020 | 2020-06-30 |
Surveys show documentation drives adoption — 72% (Tidelift 2019) and 93% (GitHub 2017) — and lack of docs is the top reason developers reject projects… | ||
| What Writing Dictionaries Taught Me about Writing Documentation | Write the Docs Portland 2018 | 2018-05-06 |
Claim: a dictionary project becomes usable documentation when it pairs concise definitions with many real-world examples and lets users contribute. Evidence… | ||
| Everything You Need to Know About OpenAPI 3.0 | The Lead Developer New York 2018 | 2018-04-24 |
OpenAPI 3.0 is shown to be concrete not just conceptual it adds servers, security schemes, tags and externalDocs that drive tooling rather than marketing… | ||
| The key to making learning stick | DevRelCon London 2017 | 2017-12-06 |
Argues that learning sticks when examples show bare functionality, real usefulness and full integration into a workflow, not just abstract snippets. Recommends… | ||
| Making the implicit explicit | DevRelCon London 2017 | 2017-12-06 |
Argues that demos must include salience, prototypicality and mapping rather than isolated code: shows API demos must include authentication, contrasts VMs vs… | ||
| Tuning Elasticsearch for English-Language Precision | Strange Loop 2017 | 2017-09-28 |
Shows how a real dictionary index of about a million entries is made findable with Elasticsearch 5.5 by building and testing concrete pipelines: preprocessed… | ||
| Rapid API Prototyping with LoopBack | Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley 2017 | 2017-06-13 |
Rapidly scaffolded Node REST APIs using LoopBack CLI, scaffolded app and lb model commands produce working endpoints within minutes; example uses an open… | ||
| You need an API: Now what? — Erin McKean | JAMstack Conf 2017 | 2017-05-24 |
Demonstrates using LoopBack (based on ExpressJS) to turn a CSV of produce PLU codes into a working JSON REST service by running lb app, adding a lb datasource… | ||
| High Order Bit: An API for the English Language | Web 2.0 Summit 2009 | 2009-10-20 |
A live English-data platform launches a set of APIs that actually work: a definitions API serving hundreds of thousands of entries from the Century Dictionary… | ||
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