Events

I report on the latest updates and best practices for Kubernetes and Cloud-native computing.

The discussions on what constitutes negative, biased, and diverse language continue in many open source communities, often sparking heated, and strongly-opinionated debate. But if you have decided what language you want to increase, decrease, or change in your community, how do you enforce and track those changes? In this presentation I look at how to use the open source language linter tool, Vale, to check text (in supported locations and formats) for rules and styles you define. I start with showing how to setup and configure the tool, and then how to use existing rule sets, or create your own. Finally I show how you can track progress during initial language overhauls, and how to track violations moving forward.

Developers are users too! In this presentation I give a quick overview of the growing field of developer experience (DX), and how to tailor developer-focussed projects to meet the demands and needs of this very particular user group.

This year at Fosdem I'm helping organise the Documentation tooling developer room, so drop on by.

I cover the basic principles, tooling, and processes of "docs-as-code".

API documentation can originate from many sources, and take many forms, so how do you ensure that the content is accurate and crucially, works? In this presentation Chris looks at options for testing, standardising, and checking your API documentation is as good as your API.

User experience has been a fundamental part of modern products for some time, but for tools aimed at developers, there is a growing focus on "developer experience" (DX, DevEx). Documentation is a key component of developer experience. As people with an eye on making sense out of technical complexity, documentarians should feel qualified and empowered to improve more than just documentation.

I'm back at Write the Docs EU again, but this time handling social media and the legendary writing day for the event.

I report on the latest updates and best practices for Kubernetes and Cloud-native computing.

A two day celebration of the next generation of web apps.

The conference on everything related to governance, collaboration, legal and economics within the scope of FOSS.

A talk about approaches to automating documentation workflows and testing documentation quality.

I am attending World IA day in my home town of Berlin to dig more into creating inclusive information architecture.

This year at Fosdem I'm just attending for fun 😄.

As a lover of open source software and communities, Chris is attending this one day event to discuss how we keep our communities supplied with what they need.