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We are people who care about making the reader experience awesome by delivering excellent documentation. We are writers, developers, designers, learning professionals, and documentation enthusiasts. Come to our meetup and strategize how to make documentation great, and meet others in the Bay Area who care about documentation.
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Upcoming events (1)
See all- Call for Speakers: 5-Minute Talks on Tech Writing ToolsLink visible for attendees
We're looking for up to eight speakers to give quick, engaging demos of the tools they use and recommend—whether for product, developer, or internal documentation, or writing in general.
The event will take place on August 7th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM PST. Speakers should plan to join 30 minutes early for a brief tech check.
If you write documentation or do a lot of writing and rely on tools that make your work easier or better, we want to hear from you!
Key Dates:
- Call for speakers opens: June 11, 2025
- Call for speakers closes: July 7th, 2025
- Selected speakers notified: July 9th, 2025
- Speakers confirm talk details and bio for event communications: July 15th, 2025
- Showtime: August 7th, 2025
- Tech rehearsal at 5:30 PM PST
- Event begins at 6:00 PM PST
Why Speak?
- Grow your professional brand.
- Build your speaking resume by gaining experience with a friendly, supportive community.
- Increase visibility for your website, blog, and social media profiles.
- Connect with peers and expand your professional network.
- Demonstrate leadership within the tech writing community.
Ready to Speak?
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Current speakers:
Speaker #1: Sarah Deaton
Title: From Code to Canvas: Transforming Mermaid Diagrams into Polished Visuals
Description: I'll demo a workflow I’ve been enjoying that combines AI-generated Mermaid diagrams with Excalidraw’s styling capabilities. It’s a solid approach for getting the structural benefits of code-based diagrams while ending up with visuals that don’t look completely auto-generated, and it’s become a regular part of how I handle documentation diagrams.
Bio: Sarah Deaton is a Developer Experience Engineer at Writer, focusing on developer-facing documentation. Previously, she was a Developer Educator at Twilio, where she helped customers build with voice, video, and other communication channels. When she's not writing docs or experimenting with AI tools, she enjoys knitting.
Title: Developer Experience Engineer
Company website: https://writer.comSpeaker #2: Tilde Thurium
Title: 4 hacks to turbocharge your Cursor productivity
Description: Cursor, an AI code editor, is by some measures the fastest growing developer tool of all time. Cursor works pretty well out of the box, but there’s a lot you can do to make it even better. In this talk, we'll demonstrate 4 ways to make your Cursor agent more personalized and accurate. Here's to better code -- and prose.
Bio: Tilde (they/them) leads the developer relations team at LaunchDarkly. They can probably deadlift more than you. Ask them about how to paint an algorithm, the intersections between mutual aid and biology, or which coast has the best vegan croissants.
Title: Developer Relations Manager, LaunchDarkly
Speaker #3: Ethan Palm
Title: From question to answers: Using AI assistant query data to identify documentation gaps
Description: I'll pose the idea that AI assistant query data may be one of the missing links we've been looking for in documentation analytics—specifically, as an indicator of user intent. Now that we have access to specific questions users are asking of our products and docs, I'll demo how I aggregate those questions, export them, and analyze them to identify gaps in my documentation. The tools I use are Mintlify and Claude.
Bio: Ethan is a technical writer with a passion for dev tools. He is currently at Mintlify maintaining documentation about maintaining documentation.
Title: Technical Writer
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