Seattle Doc Sprint Blog Post

Can we get an amen on this?

http://blog.webplatform.org/?p=441&preview=true


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Inaugural Doc Sprint for Seattle, June 22!
June 18 2013
by Eliot-MSFT

Webplatform.org continues to grow in all facets: breadth of content, 
accuracy, community health, and site usefulness. It’s a testament to the 
vibrancy of our community that we now have almost twenty thousand 
registered users! And though we are making great progress in building 
our “community-driven site that aims to become a comprehensive and 
authoritative source for web developer documentation,” there are still 
plenty of opportunities to make significant contributions.


One of the most important ways we advance our goals is through our Doc 
Sprints. We’ve organized successful doc sprints in cities in the US and 
Europe, and at each one, we’ve realized a number of goals:

People new to Webplatform learn how to get started as contributors.
Experienced contributors dive in to the content and make rapid progress.
Face-to-face contact builds relationships and networks.
Great ideas germinate and grow through collaboration.
Bugs get fixed on the spot.
Mini projects spring up and get prototyped.
But mostly, these have provided a time to get together and geek out. So, 
come geek out!

Welcome to Seattle!

Come join us at the Microsoft offices in South Lake Union for the first 
doc sprint help in the Emerald City. The Internet Explorer Developer 
Relations Team is hosting a Doc Sprint in Seattle on June 22, 2013. 
We’ll work on improving CSS properties (and possibly JavaScript topics), 
but there are opportunities to work on other areas of the documentation. 
There’s no special expertise needed. Everyone is welcome. We’ll have 
people there to help walk you through all the steps. All you need bring 
is desire and your own computer. Meet web developers from around the 
Puget Sound region. Mingle with colleagues from other companies. There 
will be free food, t-shirts, and prizes! We’ll have a couple of 
presentation about the importance of the project. There’ll even be a 
special guest appearance by Doug Schepers, Developer Relations Lead of 
the W3C. We’ll provide snacks, meals & drinks, and there will be some 
cool gifts—even a Surface Pro for one lucky winner!

Agenda, more information and registration: 
http://seattledocsprint.eventbrite.com

Address: Microsoft
320 Westlake Ave
Seattle, WA 98109
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