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Introducing DocsThursday: A Monthly Documentation "Party"

Ricardo N Feliciano on February 07, 2019

I love open source documentation and if you're reading this, maybe you do too. I have a personal mantra of "Inspire, Educate, Motivate" and documen...
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Juha-Matti Santala

This is such a great idea Ricardo! I'm gonna be hosting a DocsThursday after work at our office on 21st with some colleagues.

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Ricardo N Feliciano

That's great to hear! Hopefully you'll come back and let us know how it went?

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Juha-Matti Santala • Edited

We had such a great time! @jamesstoneco gave a nice presentation/discussion starter, we talked about what makes good documentation and then worked on open source projects, ate pizza and had a good time.

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Ricardo N Feliciano

Wow! Thank you so much for sharing this, this is inspiring. Would it be okay if I shared this on Twitter and/or the website?

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Juha-Matti Santala

Sure! I also tweeted about it (twitter.com/futurice/status/109862...) if you want to share that tweet.

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Juha-Matti Santala

I will also be writing about it to our company blog, I can share it here once it's ready if you want to share that too as a showcase.

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Ricardo N Feliciano

That would be appreciated.

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Juha-Matti Santala

So I wrote a blog post to our company blog about it: futurice.com/blog/improving-docume....

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Juha-Matti Santala

I will! We have an open source and social impact program called Spice at work which allows our people to work on open source projects on their free time and get compensated. DocsThursday fits that perfectly and many of my colleagues were already excited about the event!

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Ricardo N Feliciano

Sounds good.

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Juha-Matti Santala

Hey Ricardo!

How was your first event in NYC?