Events

All events related to the Documentation Academy can be found in the Documentation events calendar.

Community Hour

We host a Community Hour every week on a Friday, 16:00 UTC.

Our Community Hour sessions are an informal forum for discussions related to documentation.

Bring your Documentation Academy questions, share your work, or present topics you’d like to discuss. Everyone is welcome. No prior arrangements are necessary. You don’t need to sign-up, or register. Just click on the link to join, for as little or as much time as you can spare, at any time during the hour.

We occasionally host for more formal presentations, and these will be recorded. The recordings archive is below.

Community Hour recordings

We record our Community Hour meeting if there’s a presentation or a session we think may be beneficial. Below is the list of all current recordings:

Date

Presenters

Demo / discussion and YouTube link

01/03/24

Graham

Introduction to the Academy and team

08/03/24

Graham

git and GitHub workflow demo

15/03/24

Graham, Robert

GitHub UI and git user interfaces

22/03/24

Robert

Free beer vs Freedom

29/03/24

Graham

Text editor roundup

05/04/24

Andreia, Robert

Documentation testing and frameworks

12/04/24

Graham, Robert

Authoring frameworks and markup languages

19/04/24

Graham

Closed task review and new task overview

26/04/24

Graham

JIRA for task management

03/05/24

Graham

9 tips for better writing

10/05/24

Graham, Shane, Giulia, Robert, Andreia

Live from Madrid: QA session

17/05/24

Keirthana, Graham, Nick, Andreia, Robert

Live from Madrid: How to approach tutorials

24/05/24

Graham

Demonstration of Discourse and Sphinx docs systems

31/05/24

Graham, Ruth, Robert, Shane and Dimple

What text editor do you use and why?

07/06/24

Robert, Artem, Ruth, Bill, Graham

Documentation as Code

14/06/24

Nick, Shane, Graham

Vale for testing documentation

21/06/24

Artem

Tips for getting hired as a technical writer or author

28/06/24

Keirthana

Technical Author or Technical Writer

05/07/24

Everyone

Open discussion on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and documentation

12/07/24

Shane, Nick

10 ways to document terminal commands

19/07/24

Keirthana

How-to vs tutorial

26/07/24

Robert

Documentation and AI

02/08/24

Artem

How to encourage engineers to write their own documentation

09/08/24

Graham

Technical writing anonymous: improve a document as a group

16/08/24

Yana

Industrial Standards and Documentation

23/08/24

Giulia

The challenges of onboarding as a tech author

06/09/24

Vladimir

Fight! Markdown vs reStructuredText vs AsciiDoc vs XML

13/09/24

Artem

Documenting a new project

20/09/24

Christian Ehrhardt

An engineering director’s perspective on documentation

27/09/24

Yana

Accessibility and documentation

04/10/24

Graham

What we can learn from old synthesizer manuals

11/10/24

Artem

GitHub Actions for documentation

18/10/24

Shane

Recipes and Software

06/12/24

Teodora, Joost De Cock

The inspiration behind freesewing.org

13/12/24

David Ekete

Interactive RST and working with CODA