WTD NYC August Meetup - Happy hour hosted by Fern

Join us for the August 2024 Write the Docs meetup in NYC hosted by Fern!

Love documentation? Come have a drink with technical writers, developer advocates, and technical founders. You'll meet folks from Fern, MongoDB, CloudFlare, and more. 🚀

We'll have lightning talk presentations throughout the evening as well as plenty of time to meet and network with fellow documentarians. Food and beverages will be served. Please be sure to RSVP, as we'll be checking names at the door.

Talk 1: Catherine Deskur (Fern)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinedeskur/

Title: A Recipe for Stripe-level Docs
Summary: We’ll decompose what makes the Stripe’s documentation best-in-class. Then we’ll review each of those ingredients and how they work. Finally, we’ll walk through how the Fern Docs generator enables a technical writer to build Stripe-level docs for their organization.

Talk 2: Ben Perlmutter (MongoDB)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-perlmutter/

Title: Knowledge Is the New Uranium
Summary: It's long been said that "data is the new oil". With the recent rise of generative AI technologies, we have a new event, a more precious digital resource fueling the digital economy: knowledge. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has presented a first generative AI use case for organizations to use their knowledge resources, like documentation, knowledge bases, and code repositories. This talk explores various other ways that organizations can use the knowledge resources they ingest for RAG to fuel growth and productivity. Use cases for knowledge resources covered in this presentation include: many RAG chatbots, fine-tuning models, and creating knowledge APIs for AI agents to consume. Attendees will come away from this talk with actionable guidance on how they can leverage their knowledge resources for maximum efficacy.

Talk 3: Erin Mikail (Launch Darkly)
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinmikail/ ](https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinmikail/)

Title: Docs as Context
Summary: Why docs are more important than ever in the age of AI code assist and how can developer advocates, educators, and docs writers work collaboratively to help guide new users to success.

Event details:

• Plan to arrive 15 minutes early to check in and make your way to the event space.
• Please register using your full name
• Bring a photo ID.

As a reminder, by registering for this event, you agree to follow the Write the Docs Code of Conduct: https://www.writethedocs.org/code-of-conduct/