Integrated Sessions Schedule Portland 2022


1	- To host a session, make sure you are looking at the editable version of the sheet, add the info to the relevant table and time slot, and enter the session at the schedule time. - To attend a session, you don't need to sign up in this sheet. Just enter the session at the schedule time to participate. - Check out the Time Zone Calculator to verify the scheduled time of the session. - Session participation with audio/video is optional. You can still observe and chat without turning on your mic/camera. - Check out the Unconference Cheat Sheet for tips on how to make the most out of the sessions.
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3	9:30	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	Meetup organizers brainstorm and social (past, present, and potential organizers welcome!)	Internationalization, localization and other translation topics	Content reuse			New tech writers meet & greet. What have you learned so far in your transition? Will also gladly welcome wisdom from more experienced writers
4	9:30	Lead Name	Rose Williams, Alyssa Rock	Edith Viau	Christy Lutz			Peter Jurich
5	10:05	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	Style guides and Vale. Make them work for you (even as a lone writer). <b> Happy to have volunteers who can help facilitate	Modularization vs one massive project: pros and cons of managing online product documentation as one large doc project vs smaller articles. Hoping to collaborate on the pros and cons of each
6	10:05	Lead Name	Mike Jang	Vicki Lindem
7	11:10	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	Is search for web-based documentation the king? Let's talk about in-help search quality and how you assess and enhance it	Frontend web dev is too complex. How we can make it easier: takeaways from edtech, tooling, and more!	Documentation integration with development and engineering teams. Why documentation should be part of the agile methodology and how to get there.
8	11:10	Lead Name	Anna Gasparyan	Sylwia Vargas, Nick Scialli, Dan Jutan	Janna Kilimnik
9	11:45	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	One of These Things is Not Like the Others: How can I better document a tool that has parts in beta and parts in production use? A 5 minute walk through of my problem then open dicussion	Confluence! Love it, hate it, just tryin to understand it. Internal docs, external docs. Let's just chat	What's up my fellow neurodivergent folks! Want to talk about your workplace/writing experiences or listen to others?	Working at very small / early stage startups. Challenges? Opportunities? Best tools for the job? Please share your experience or learn from others.	Working at very small / early stage startups. Challenges? Opportunities? Best tools for the job? Please share your experience or learn from others.
10	11:45	Lead Name	Hannah Hazi	Matt Reiner	Ryan Macklin	Dustin Boss
11	Lunch
12	Time	Info	Table 1	Table 2	Table 3	Table 4	Table 5	Table 6
13	2:05	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	Getting Started in Technical Writing: Opportunity to discuss transitioning to the industry, first steps in tech writer journey, and anything else related to being a new face!	QueerTea—Welcome LGBT+ documentarians! You aren't here alone, bring a cup of tea and meet others in our group. (Allies are kindly asked to skip this, but there's no such thing as "not queer enough".)	Gear Chat: Give/Get recommendations for comfy chairs, perfect peripherals, and any other gear/tech to make your workstation better!	Always Be Selling? A space to discuss how much (if any) sales/marketing content should be in user documentation and the tension between explaining and upselling.
14	2:05	Lead Name	Jerome Villegas	Ashleigh Rentz	Emily Stuckman	Peter Tosirisuk
15	2:40	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	Getting Started----continued!		The Good Docs Project Content Strategy Working Group. Learn about The Good Doc Project and the core components of creating a content strategy.			Managing your queue: Ideas for Project Prioritization
16	2:40	Lead Name	Jerome Villegas		Carrie Crowe, Felicity Brand			Robin Keith
17	End of main stage talks
18	Social event (5:00-7:00)


1	- To host a session, make sure you are looking at the editable version of the sheet, add the info to the relevant table and time slot, and enter the session at the schedule time. - To attend a session, you don't need to sign up in this sheet. Just enter the session at the schedule time to participate. - Check out the Time Zone Calculator to verify the scheduled time of the session. - Session participation with audio/video is optional. You can still observe and chat without turning on your mic/camera. - Check out the Unconference Cheat Sheet for tips on how to make the most out of the sessions.
2	Time	Info	Table 1	Table 2	Table 3	Table 4	Table 5	Table 6

3	Morning 9:45-12	Job Fair
4	Lunch
5	1:35	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	Meetup organizers brainstorm and social (past, present, and potential organizers welcome!)	Bluehawkification - How you can use Bluehawk to generate tested code examples for your documentation project, and much much more!	Let's chat about CMS options! What CMS are you using, do you like it, and why?	Making great technical videos. 👍🏻 and SUBSCRIBE to this unconference table if you want to learn and share about making great technical videos.	Weed the Docs - How do you identify and clean up content that's become ROT (redundant, obsolete, or trivial)? Let's discuss the tail end of content governance...	GitPod + FrontMatter CMS - How to set them up and some lessons learned from different site generators. Reduce the friction for contribution to your project.
6	1:35	Lead Name	Rose Williams, Alyssa Rock	Nate Contino, Nick Larew, and Ben Perlmutter	Marcela Abrach	Matt Reiner	Tana Franko	Bryan Klein
7	2:10	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	WTD Quorum Meetups retrospective: what has gone well and where can we improve?	Translation Tips - How have you improved translations for your Help Center or product? Glossaries, providers, global English, etc!	Interactive documentation from A to Z!	Can we honor the land by conscientiously configuring content to reduce its carbon footprint? Let's spark the conversation!	The Documentatian career path. What are my options for advancement?	Git for new learners (no judgement)
8	2:10	Lead Name	Alyssa Rock	Mary Hauber	Garrison Snelling, Tomek Sulkowski, Sylwia Vargas	Leanna Inzalaco	Vicki Lindem	Tara English-Sweeney
9	3:10	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	Tech Writing Roles and Navigating the Hiring Experience: Let's chat about your stories in the hiring process, expectations/realities, and anything else!	Can I interest you in Empathy Advocacy?	55+ Documentarians: What's your experience? What are the pros and cons of being a senior team member in youth-orientated corporate cultures?	Sharing metrics across companies: How can we start sharing meaningful metrics without violating individual company security/reputation?	Group discussion: Qualitative Data for Docs. Let's discuss strategies for gathering qualitative data for docs, including leaning on existing qualitative data.	Group discussion: The Zen of Technical Writing.
10	3:10	Lead Name	Jerome Villegas	Ryan Macklin	Mark Gates	Mysti Berry	Jessica Canepa	Elisa Sawyer
11	3:50	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	Pet Talk: Come mingle and show off your pets to wind down at the end of the conference. Don't have pets? Come to admire!	"Box? There's a box?" I'm intersted in writerly perspectives on "the box" related to "in" and "out" of "the box." Please join if you'd like to share yours.		I hate release notes so much I'm trying to get a computer to do them for me. I can demo one approach to release note automation and want to hear how you all deal with this important nuisance.
12	3:50	Lead Name	Emily Stuckman	Elisa Sawyer		William Abernathy
13	End of conference :(	Conference closing on the main stage at 2:40


1	- To host a session, make sure you are looking at the editable version of the sheet, add the info to the relevant table and time slot, and enter the session at the schedule time. - To attend a session, you don't need to sign up in this sheet. Just enter the session at the schedule time to participate. - Check out the Time Zone Calculator to verify the scheduled time of the session. - Session participation with audio/video is optional. You can still observe and chat without turning on your mic/camera. - Check out the Writing Day Cheat Sheet for tips on how to make the most out of the sessions.
2	Time	Info	Table 1	Table 2	Table 3	Table 4	Table 5	Table 6	Table 7	Table 8	Table 9	Table 10

3	09:30-12:00 PT	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	Writing Day Help - Come for support on how to contribute to one of the Writing Day projects!	The Good Docs Project	SolidJS	Open Web Docs				Set up Obsidian publishing (or not) and create your own digital garden. Or come and chat about Obsidian / work on your own Obsidian project. This is Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/		Work on your own projects
4	09:30-12:00 PT	Lead Name	Bryan Klein, Edith Viau, Alyssa Rock	Alyssa Rock, Carrie Crowe	Dan Jutan, Nick Scialli	Will Bamberg, Estelle Weyl, Queen Vinyl Da.i’gyu-Kazotetsu				Ursula Kallio		N/A
5	Lunch
6	1:00-5:00 PT	Topic (max 1-2 sentences)	WTD site - Meetup content updates	The Good Docs Project		Open Web Docs						Work on your own projects
7	1:00-5:00 PT	Lead Name	Rose Williams, Alyssa Rock	Alyssa Rock, Carrie Crowe		Will Bamberg, Estelle Weyl, Queen Vinyl Da.i’gyu-Kazotetsu						N/A
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