Schedule

Schedule

Write the Docs is more than a conference. Each year we organize a wide range of events so that people can come together, collaborate, and learn from each other in different ways.

Thursday, 14th November 2019

Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided, as well as snacks and drinks all day.

Conference talks and workshops

  • Where: Water Police Court

  • When: 8:45-17:30 (including a lunch break)

8:00
Doors Open
8:45
Write the Docs Team - Introduction to Write the Docs
9:05
Riona MacNamara - Knowledge Is Power: Documentation as a tool for equity and inclusion
9:35
Switch Speakers
9:40
Alec Clews - Creating API documentation for international communities.
10:10
Morning tea - Snack break
10:40
Rachel Robins - Supercharge your writing process with a designer's toolkit
11:10
Switch Speakers
11:15
Akhil Behl - Your First Book - Doesn't have to be rocket science!
11:45
Lunch
12:45
Lightning Talks
13:00
Cameron Shorter - TheGoodDocsProject - creating open templates and best-practice writing guides for software documentation
13:00
Sarah Maddox - Kubeflow open source docs need your help!
15:00
Snack break
15:30
Becky Todd - Git the Docs: A fun, hands-on introduction to version control
15:30
Unconference
17:30
Group Photo
17:40
Day 1 wraps up

Unconference

The unconference sessions run in parallel with the workshop.

  • Where: Police Court, Charge Room and Cells

  • When: 13:00-17:00

  • Details: Unconference

Thursday Night Social

The official Write the Docs Australia social! This event is for conference attendees only, so please bring your badge to be let into the venue. There will be drinks and nibbles available while our tab lasts.

  • Where: Harts Pub, Essex St & Gloucester St, The Rocks, NSW

  • When: 6.30pm-9.00pm

Friday, 15th November 2019

Tea, coffee and lunch will be provided, as well as snacks and drinks all day.

Conference talks and workshops

  • Where: Water Police Court

  • When: 9:00-17:00 (including a lunch break)

8:30
Doors Open
9:00
Leticia Mooney - The amazing, fantastic human bias that makes you bang your head on your desk.
9:30
Switch Speakers
9:35
Fraser Mitchell - Through the looking glass - how user testing can give technical writers better perspective
10:05
Switch Speakers
10:10
Payal Dhiman - Being a user's documentarian: Studying user's behavior and then defining a strategy for documentation.
10:40
Morning tea - snack break
11:10
Elle Geraghty - Information architecture for documentation
11:40
Switch Speakers
11:45
Nithya Krishnan - Minimal Viable Product - What does this mean for user documentation
12:15
Lunch
13:00
Alexander Koren - Rethinking Release Notes
13:30
Switch Speakers
13:35
Paris Buttfield-Addison - Making interactive narrative storytelling accessible to everyone
14:05
Lightning Talks
14:20
Snack break
14:45
Sarah Maddox - Tech Writing 101 Workshop
16:45
Conference wraps up
17:00
Close

Unconference

The unconference sessions run in parallel to the mini-workshop.

  • Where: Police Court, Charge Room and Cells

  • When: 13:00-17:00

  • Details: Unconference

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