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Re: "Write the Docs" conference in Portland, April 8-9
Subject:Re: "Write the Docs" conference in Portland, April 8-9 From:Kristof Van Tomme <kristof -at- pronovix -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:06:14 +0100
Looks really interesting, I think there is a lot of unrealized
collaboration potential in the open source tech writing community.
Too bad it is the week before CMS DITA NA. I won't make it twice over
the pond in that short a time...
Maybe we can organize another similar conference in Europe?
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Lois Patterson
<loisrpatterson -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> The three conference founders are all github people, and it's clear they
> have a strong interest in open-source programming. This looks like a great
> conference to attend if you want to meet different people and hear about
> different subjects than at a typical documentation conference (all of which
> I love too). I am going to try to go! Thanks to Ryan for pointing this out.
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>wrote:
>
>> So far I just see that it's a potential conference in Portland. Given there
>> are MANY content-related conferences every year, I'd like to see the topics
>> and speakers before making a decision on this one.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Becca <becca_price -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
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>> > It sounds interesting, but no word on how much it would cost.
>> >
>> >
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>> > >http://conf.writethedocs.org/
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>> > >Disclaimer: I'm not involved in any way ... just thought it looks neat.
>> I
>> > >hope I can convince my boss to send me. Plus, Portland! :-)
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