Open Source Summit Europe 2025: Full Schedule

25-27, August 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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11:00 CEST

OSS Documentation Workshop - Erin McKean, Google & Daniel Beck, Independent

Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST

G106

Are you an open source maintainer who wants to create better docs for your project? In this talk you'll learn about some new tools for docs maintainers (a Docs Advisor working guide and a set of Docs Archetypes) and some pro tips on how to use them:

* the types of technical documentation and docs projects -- how to decide what is a fit for your organization or project
* how to get basic info about your users and the kinds of documentation they need
* how to determine when a project is a bad fit for your needs
* how to onboard technical writers to your project
* how to choose and measure criteria for the success of your docs project
* how to keep your docs momentum going!

Materials for these new tools are based on the real experiences of the more than 70 projects who have participated in Google Season of Docs, and are currently available at github.com/google/opendocs.

Speakers

Erin McKean

Senior Developer Relations Engineer, Google

Erin McKean is a developer relations engineer in Google's Open Source Programs office. She is also the founder of the not-for-profit Wordnik.com, the world’s biggest online dictionary. In addition to writing code, blog posts, and documentation, she’s also the author of the Weird... Read More →

Daniel Beck

Technical Writer, Self-employed

Daniel is a documentation consultant who helps software engineering teams make tools, processes, and content that reach developer audiences. He's a longtime contributor and maintainer of open source software and documentation, including as a current maintainer of Baseline, a browser... Read More →

Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:00 - 11:40 CEST
G106

Technical Documentation

Audience Experience Level Any

11:55 CEST

Fixing the Watchdog: How Open Documentation Empowers Community-Driven Hardware Support - Andrew Halaney, Netflix & Eric Chanudet, Red Hat, Inc

Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST

G106

Hardware documentation varies widely in quality and accessibility — ranging from treasured to frustratingly opaque. In this talk, we’ll introduce a framework for classifying types of hardware documentation and discuss their impact on enabling community-driven innovation.

We’ll showcase a real-world example of valuable documentation by exploring how Texas Instruments’ open documentation for the J784S4EVM empowered us to debug and fix its watchdog system. This process involved navigating multiple subsystems within the SoC, leveraging publicly available resources every step of the way.

Attendees will gain insight into how open documentation accelerates debugging, fosters collaboration, and enables independent hardware support. Beyond this case study, we hope to inspire vendors to embrace open documentation practices and encourage community members to prioritize documentation quality when selecting hardware.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/hqifchzwvzyexlcq6vfhlnrp3sixkgk23vau6o46k6einn5vee@gj5a53ee2gsi/T/#m7ecce818686b775105367e19e9548970c26c4427

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240911-j784s4-esm-enable-v2-0-957f56b588d9@redhat.com/

Speakers

Andrew Halaney

Software Engineer, Netflix

Andrew is a software at Netflix, supporting Netflix's base OS as well as its kubernetes dataplane. He has experience in Linux systems, ranging from bring up for automotive infotainment systems to cloud servers running container workloads. He's upstreamed support for various hardware... Read More →

Eric Chanudet

Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat, Inc

I joined the Red Hat Automotive Kernel team in 2021 and worked on improving boot time to match the requirement of the Red Hat In Vehicle OS kernel as well as helped enable and support arm64 platforms for it.

Wednesday August 27, 2025 11:55 - 12:35 CEST
G106

Technical Documentation

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

14:10 CEST

Run a Documentation Sprint for Your Project - Sarah Corleissen, Isovalent at Cisco

Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST

G106

This talk covers how to run a documentation sprint for your project.

Docs sprints improve your project by giving contributors an opportunity to collaborate within a well-defined structure and limited time.

In this talk, we'll cover everything you need to set up a sprint, run it, and build on the results.

This talk is based on real-world experience running docs sprints for open source projects, including Kubernetes.

Speakers

Sarah Corleissen

Head of Documentation, Isovalent at Cisco

Sarah is a former chair of Kubernetes SIG Docs and current contributor to the Cilium project. In addition to contributing to several OSS projects, she has worked on documentation at Isovalent at Cisco, Stripe, and the Linux Foundation, and spoken at conferences including FOSDEM, KubeCon... Read More →

Wednesday August 27, 2025 14:10 - 14:50 CEST
G106

Technical Documentation

Audience Experience Level Any

15:05 CEST

Documentation That Runs: Bridging Code, Prose, and Interactivity - Kailan Blanks, Fastly

Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST

G106

Some developers like to study documentation, while others dive straight into their editor to start hacking on code — but what if documentation was the code? With today’s technologies it is more feasible than ever to blur the line between learning and building, by embedding live, editable examples directly into docs. Join me as I explore examples of interactive documentation from across the open source ecosystem and unpack five years' worth of lessons from building interactive docs for a developer platform.

Speakers

Kailan Blanks

Senior Software Engineer, Fastly

As part of the Developer Experience team at Fastly, Kailan is responsible for customer-facing tooling and content. As part of his work, he maintains the Fastly Developer Hub and various open-source projects for Fastly’s serverless compute environment. Outside of work hours, he builds... Read More →

Wednesday August 27, 2025 15:05 - 15:45 CEST
G106

Technical Documentation

Audience Experience Level Intermediate

16:20 CEST

User Research in the Open-source Project: The Good Docs Project Case - Lana Novikova, JetBrains

Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST

G106

This talk explores how The Good Docs Project integrated user research methodologies into an open-source environment to better understand our users and improve documentation templates and suite we provide. I'll share our journey of creating a UX research kit tailored for open-source projects, conducting user interviews, and analyzing qualitative data - all while navigating the unique challenges of distributed collaboration and volunteer contributors. This case study offers practical insights for other open-source communities looking to implement user-centered design approaches.

Speakers

Lana Novikova

Product manager, JetBrains

Hello there! I’m Lana, a dedicated technical writer, docops enthusiast, and a specialist in knowledge management.

Wednesday August 27, 2025 16:20 - 17:00 CEST
G106

Technical Documentation

Audience Experience Level Any