Lessons learned open-sourcing GitHub Docs

Just like code, docs shouldn't be static. They need to evolve and respond to the changes in the developer world every day. That's why we believe that GitHub Docs are better when they're used in the open—with the people who are building the features and those who are using them all participating in tandem. In this talk, you'll hear about why and how we took our docs public, and the lessons we learned along the way.

OUR SPEAKER:
Kathy Korevec is Senior Director of Product Management at GitHub, where she leads the Documentation Team.

Kathy has an engineering background and has always been a maker at heart with a passion for technology. She’s played a critical role in the creation of new products such as Heroku’s developer dashboard and enterprise workflow management systems and works to make every product successful well beyond launch. Her curiosity for building is fueled by exploring new tools, prototyping potential solutions, and investigating different processes.

Prior to GitHub, Kathy worked as Senior Product Manager on the Human Interface Team at Heroku. Before Heroku, Kathy was a Senior Product Manager for Disqus, where she ran the core commenting platform. She studied Philosophy and Physical Anthropology at Pacific Lutheran University.

SPONSORING MEETUPS:
The Quorum program brings together various local Write the Docs meetup chapters that are in a common time zone to provide quarterly super meetups over Zoom throughout the year. The following U.S. East Coast and Central meetups are sponsoring this Meetup event:

--Detroit, MI/Windsor, CAN (our host meetup!) - https://www.meetup.com/write-the-docs-detroit-windsor/
--Atlanta, GA - https://www.meetup.com/Write-the-Docs-Atlanta/
--Austin, TX - https://www.meetup.com/WriteTheDocs-ATX-Meetup/
--Boston, MA https://www.meetup.com/Write-the-Docs-BOS/
--Durham, NC
--Florida
--Ottawa/Montreal, CAN - https://www.meetup.com/Write-The-Docs-YOW-Ottawa/
-- Philadelphia, PA - https://www.writethedocs.org/meetups/philly/