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September 16-18, 2024
Vienna, Austria
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Learning by Example: Highlights from Google Season of Docs - Erin McKean, Google
Wednesday September 18, 2024 15:10 - 15:50 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)
The Google Season of Docs program gives direct grants to open source projects to hire technical writers. The technical writing projects supported by these grants are intended to solve real problems for open source project communities, and the case studies created by the projects are intended to help other open source projects learn how to conceptualize and create their own problem-solving open source documentation. In this talk, we'll walk through how projects participating in Google's Season of Docs program have framed their problems, hypothesized solutions, created documentation to solve those problems, and measured the success of their documentation.
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Erin McKean

Developer Relations Engineer, Google
Erin McKean does "docs advocacy" for Google's OSPO. She is the founder of the not-for-profit Wordnik.com. Before Wordnik, she was the editor-in-chief of American Dictionaries for Oxford University Press. In addition to writing code, blog posts, and documentation, she’s also the... Read More →
Wednesday September 18, 2024 15:10 - 15:50 CEST
Room 0.11-0.12 (Level 0)
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