Write The Docs 2014

Notes from Write the Docs 2014, May 5-6, Portland, OR.

See also: http://write-the-docs-2013-notes.rtfd.org for last year’s notes.

• Monday
  • Morning
    • Welcome to Write the Docs
    • Flow: A Permaculture Approach to Documentation Projects
    • Communities Are Awesome
    • The New Sheriff in Town: Bringing Documentation Out of Chaos
    • Ignorance is Strength
    • Did It In Minutes: The Art of Documenting Meeting Notes
    • Hacking the English Language
  • Afternoon
    • Lighting Talks
    • Documenting Domain Specific Knowledge
    • Graphical Explanations
• Tuesday
  • Morning
    • Putting the (docs) Cart Before the (standards) Horse
    • From docs to engineering and back again
    • Don’t Write Documentation
    • Make Music Not Noise
    • Instrumentation as Living Documentation: Teaching Humans About Complex Systems
    • We Strongly Recommend You Write Best Practices
    • Wabi-Sabi Writing
    • Strategies to fight documentation inertia