Eric Holscher¶

Eric is one of the cofounders of Write the Docs, and also one of the cofounders of the Read the Docs documentation platform. He is the primary chair of the Portland conference, and loves to talk all things docs :)

Alicia Duncan¶

Alicia loves to explain complex things in easy-to-understand ways and is passionate about harnessing the talent and collaborative spirit of others. She is currently Lead Technical Writer at Digi International, Inc., where she works closely (and remotely) with her internationally distributed development teams to document embedded Linux systems. She tends to be a human common denominator, bridging personalities and differences to bring people together.

Becky Yoose¶

Becky is the resident librarian in the Write the Docs crew. She resides in Seattle where she works at the beautiful Seattle Central Public Library, and is our emissary into the world of librarians.

Christy Lutz¶

Christy Lutz founded the Welcome Wagon program and adores making connections through it. She also crochets to relax, loves to dance, and is a Program Manager with a passion for docs at Dutchie.

Jennifer Rondeau¶

Jennifer has been helping organize the Portland conference since 2015. She possesses an advanced degree she likes to call her license to speculate irresponsibly on the basis of insufficient data. She currently helps maintain the docs for Kubernetes, the open source container management and deployment system, part of her work as a technical writer working at a Kubernetes startup.

Kelly O’Brien¶

Kelly runs the Write the Docs newsletter, and has been organizing the North America conference for the last 3 years. She has a day job at Kayako where she is the Self-Service Content Manager.

Mikey Ariel¶

Mikey is the documentation czar for Write the Docs in Europe. She is an avid dancer as well as singer, and has probably traveled across more of Europe than you have. Mikey is a senior technical writer at Red Hat living in Prague.

Mo Nishiyama¶

Mo Nishiyama is a Technical Writer at Oregon Health & Science University’s Information Technology Group. His professional passions include transforming dense engineer-speak into customer-friendly support articles, cultivating a community of tech writers in the workplace, promoting a human-centric work culture, and sharing career/life experiences through public speaking and essay writing. Mo is an Oxford comma advocate.

Nikolas Blanchet¶

Jennifer Rondeau¶

Jennifer has been helping organize the Portland conference since 2015. She possesses an advanced degree she likes to call her license to speculate irresponsibly on the basis of insufficient data. She currently helps maintain the docs for Kubernetes, the open source container management and deployment system, part of her work as a technical writer working at a Kubernetes startup.

Rose Williams¶

Rose co-leads the Meetup Coordination team and organizes the Florida and New England Write the Docs groups. She’s been on the conference team as the Lightning Talks coordinator for the past few years and occasionally moonlights as the Writing Day coordinator.

Samuel Wright¶

Sam has been organizing Write the Docs conferences for even more than a few years now. He lives in Berlin unless he’s off to a conference or death metal festival somewhere. Sam works at EngFlow, and is into making computers do the boring bits of writing docs so he can work on the fun bits.

Shaun McCance¶

Shaun is a long-time open source docs nerd. He spent ten years as the GNOME docs team lead, developed various bits of open source docs tools, and organized the Open Help Conference & Sprints. He works for Red Hat where he helps open source projects have awesome docs.