Open Documentation Hour recording index

The following table lists our previous Open Documentation Hour recordings with direct links to the videos.

For the schedule of future office hours, and for our ideas pool, see Open Documentation Hour schedule.

Office Hours recording index

Date Presenters Demo / discussion and YouTube link
01/03/24 Graham Introduction to the Academy and team
08/03/24 Graham git and GitHub workflow demo
15/03/24 Graham, Robert GitHub UI and git user interfaces
22/03/24 Robert Free beer vs Freedom
29/03/24 Graham Text editor roundup
05/04/24 Andreia, Robert Documentation testing and frameworks
12/04/24 Graham, Robert Authoring frameworks and markup languages
19/04/24 Graham Closed task review and new task overview
26/04/24 Graham JIRA for task management
03/05/24 Graham 9 tips for better writing
10/05/24 Graham, Shane, Giulia, Robert, Andreia Live from Madrid: QA session
17/05/24 Keirthana, Graham, Nick, Andreia, Robert Live from Madrid: How to approach tutorials
24/05/24 Graham Demonstration of Discourse and Sphinx docs systems
31/05/24 Graham, Ruth, Robert, Shane and Dimple What text editor do you use and why?
07/06/24 Robert, Artem, Ruth, Bill, Graham Documentation as Code
14/06/24 Nick, Shane, Graham Vale for testing documentation
21/06/24 Artem Tips for getting hired as a technical writer or author
28/06/24 Keirthana Technical Author or Technical Writer
5/07/24 Everyone Open discussion on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and documentation
12/07/24 Shane, Nick 10 ways to document terminal commands
19/07/24 Keirthana How-to vs tutorial
26/07/24 Robert Documentation and AI
02/08/24 Artem How to encourage engineers to write their own documentation
09/08/24 Graham Technical writing anonymous: improve a document as a group
16/08/24 Yana Industrial Standards and Documentation
23/08/24 Giulia The challenges of onboarding as a tech author
06/09/24 Vladimir Fight! Markdown vs reStructuredText vs AsciiDoc vs XML
13/09/24 Artem Documenting a new project
20/09/24 Christian Ehrhardt An engineering director’s perspective on documentation
27/09/24 Yana Accessibility and documentation
04/10/24 Graham What we can learn from old synthesizer manuals
11/10/24 Artem GitHub Actions for documentation
18/10/24 Shane Recipes and Software
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