Lightning Talks - Day One

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Lightning lightning rounds report concrete takeaways: Alchemy CMS on Rails claims strict separation of content and markup for flexible outputs; documentation strategy shifts from “admin” to “developer” personas so installation reads as marketing; hardware docs use 3D authoring tools to generate and update vector assembly snapshots; an open source tech‑docs startup prototypes with Angular and Firebase and even lands investors; a ticket‑driven review process lifts coverage from 20% to 80% reviewed; metrics tie docs to business outcomes.

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1. 0:00Welcome to lightning talks
2. 0:46Alchemy CMS intro by Robin
3. 6:30Documentation personas shift
4. 11:083D assembly instructions
5. 14:46Open source startup lessons
6. 20:28Reviewing knowledge repos
7. 26:04Metrics in technical comms
8. 31:01Closing remarks

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