Event recaps

API the Docs Chicago 2019

April 16, 2019

A day long event in Chicago on the 8th April, 2019, where people new to the API documentation can learn from each other, find their position in this new ecosystem, and meet experienced API-focused documentarians: a Write The Docs mini-conference specialized in API docs. An opportunity to share and discuss the latest best practices, new trends, and strategies relevant to API documentation. This landing page collects the presentations' slide-decks, the video recordings and our summaries thereof.

Tool the Docs - FOSDEM 2019

February 20, 2019

How do you document your project? What tools do you use?

Tool The Docs was for the second year now a DevRoom at FOSDEM, co-organized by Chris Ward, Mark Meyer and Kristof Van Tomme. The track is a great opportunity for project leads, documentarians, and other documentation enthusiasts from across open source projects to come together and talk about tooling that makes contribution to docs efforts easier.

APIDays Paris: API the Docs Track

January 9, 2019

APIDays Paris is about all recent technologies and business models associated to APIs. 100+ talks about the "New API Stack" and how to build a "Programmable Society". For the first time an API the Docs track took place inside the APIDays Paris conference. Eleven speakers shared and discussed the latest best practices, strategies and new trends relevant to API documentation and internal developer portals.

API the Docs London 2018

December 13, 2018

A day long event in London on the 9th November, 2018, where people new to the API documentation can learn from each other, find their position in this new ecosystem, and meet experienced API-focused documentarians: a Write The Docs mini-conference specialized in API docs. An opportunity to share and discuss the latest best practices, new trends, and strategies relevant to API documentation. This landing page collects the presentations' slide-decks, the video recordings and our summaries thereof.

API the Docs Paris 2018

April 26, 2018

A day long event in Paris on the 24th April, 2018, where people new to the API documentation can learn from each other, find their position in this new ecosystem, and meet experienced API-focused documentarians: a Write The Docs mini-conference specialized in API docs. An opportunity to share and discuss the latest best practices, new trends, and strategies relevant to API documentation. This is landing page collects the presentations' slide-decks, the video recordings and our summaries thereof.

Tool the Docs - FOSDEM 2018

February 8, 2018

Tool the Docs: a developer track for documentarians at FOSDEM 2018, dedicated to free and open source tools for the writing, managing, testing and rendering of documentation. Tool the Docs devroom ran on Sunday, 4th February 2018, 9:00-12:30 am at FOSDEM.

API The Docs Amsterdam 2017

December 7, 2017

A day long event in Amsterdam on the 4th December, 2017, where people new to the API documentation can learn from each other, find their position in this new ecosystem, and meet experienced API-focused documentarians: a Write The Docs mini-conference specialized in API docs. An opportunity to share and discuss the latest best practices, new trends, and strategies relevant to API documentation. This is landing page collects the presentations' slide-decks, the video recordings and our summaries thereof.

API The Docs London 2017

June 26, 2017

A one-day Write The Docs conference about all aspects of API documentation.

Agile The Docs

March 16, 2017

A whole day WTD meetup in 2016 December in London, organised in collaboration with GDS, to explore the tools, processes and methodologies that teams use to write documentation in an agile environment.

Version the Docs - Version control & documentation

February 9, 2017

How do you version your documentation? How do you collaborate with co-authors? Recently a lot of people have gotten really excited about Git and how code repositories enable a pull request based documentation versioning strategy. Speakers from leading GIT code repositories, talking about how their teams dogfood their own tools to do their documentation! Visit the meetup page to see upcoming topics and times to meet the London Write The Docs community.

Write The Docs North America (May 22-24, 2016, Portland, OR)

July 5, 2016

WTD Conference Portland (OR) 2016: Talk summaries and video recordings

Documenting APIs, Write The Docs mini-conference London 2016

March 18, 2016

In the beginning of March 2016, the Write The Docs London community did a mini-conference that explored the tools and processes used to document APIs.