TechDocsCon @ Open Source Summit Europe 2024
2024-09-16..2024-09-18
Vienna, Austria
who it's for
technical writers, open source maintainers, documentation engineers, localization engineers, developer educators, platform engineers, community managers, engineering managers
topics
Google Season of Docs case studies; documentation templates and doc packs; template automation with LLMs; translation CI pipeline with bots; Chinese-first repository localization; Educates browser sandboxes on Kubernetes; LLM-driven API and code docs; on-prem OpenShift AI deployment; analytics via Google Analytics and Plausible; LLM evaluation with human review
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Learning by Example: Highlights from Google Season of Docs | Erin McKean | 35m |
Google Season of Docs gives grants to open source projects to hire technical writers, producing 73 case studies since 2021 and 11 new orgs in 2024. Case… | ||
| Tackling Language Barriers in Open Source Docs: A Case Study of openEuler's... | Helen Liu, Wang Jing | 46m |
openEuler documents live on gy across about 200 repositories, 90% README in Chinese and a small team of ~9–10 active translators (30 occasional contributors)… | ||
| Online Hands-on Tech Docs, the Easy Way! | Jorge Morales Pou | 32m |
Demo shows an open source platform called Educates that runs on containers on Kubernetes, launches browser sandboxes with configurable resource limits and… | ||
| Documentation Templates: A Helpful Aid or an Obstacle | Lana Novikova | 38m |
Argues that ready-made templates (outlines plus instructional text and example phrasings) cut author time, reduce omissions and ensure consistent sections and… | ||
| Next-Gen Documentation with AI | Hema Veeradhi | 49m |
Claims that LLMs can automate API and code docs, but demo shows mixed results: a Streamlit UI pulls Python files, calls open-source models (Mistral, Llama, IBM… | ||
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