WTD Portland conference proposal workshop

With the deadline for Write the Docs Portland 2023 (in person) quickly approaching on February 6, 2023, this is a great opportunity to share your proposal ideas, brainstorm ideas for proposals, and support our fellow documentarians who are submitting proposals.

The meeting will begin with a member of the conference committee providing some basic information about the conference and how to submit a proposal. That presentation will be followed by a Q&A session where you can ask any questions about the proposal submission process or the conference.

After the Q&A, we'll let attendees pitch their conference proposals and get high quality feedback from the community and people with experience giving past WTD talks and/or members of the proposal evaluation committee.

HOW TO PITCH YOUR PROPOSAL
If you would like to present a pitch, please join the meeting on time to sign up for a slot. When it's your turn, you will have 5 minutes to talk about your proposal idea, followed by 5 minutes for questions and discussion. This number may be flexible, depending on the number of people who want to discuss their proposals.

Past participants sometimes have a short slide deck that they share as part of their proposal, but this is not required.

To learn more about the proposal process, go to: https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2023/cfp/

AGENDA (Pacific Time)

• 4:00 - 4:05 - Announcements and sign up to give your pitch
• 4:05 - 4:20 - Conference / CFP information and Q&A
• 4:20 - 5:30 - Pitch proposal workshop

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 proposal workshop is a joint East Coast and West Coast Quorum event.

We wish to thank the Australia meetup, which is hosting this month's Quorum event: https://www.meetup.com/Write-the-Docs-Australia/

The following Canada/U.S. East Coast, Central, and West Coast meetups are also sponsoring this Meetup event:

• Austin, TX - https://www.meetup.com/WriteTheDocs-ATX-Meetup/
• Bay Area, CA - https://www.meetup.com/Write-the-Docs-Bay-Area/
• Detroit, MI/Windsor, CAN - https://www.meetup.com/write-the-docs-detroit-windsor/
• Florida - https://www.meetup.com/write-the-docs-florida/
• New England - https://www.meetup.com/ne-write-the-docs/
• Philadelphia, PA - https://www.writethedocs.org/meetups/philly/
• Portland, OR - https://www.meetup.com/Write-The-Docs-PDX/
• Seattle, WA - https://www.meetup.com/Write-The-Docs-Seattle/
• Toronto, ON, CAN - https://www.meetup.com/Write-The-Docs-Toronto/
• Washington, D.C. - https://www.meetup.com/Write-the-Docs-DC/

NOTE
This meeting will be recorded. Also be advised that the Zoom room for this meeting is capped at 100 attendees. If more than 100 individuals RSVP for the event, only the first 100 attendees who enter the Zoom room will be able to attend.