We are collaborating with The Pragmatic Bookshelf to bring you a codebar first - a panel featuring authors and editors answering all your questions on technical writing.
To bring about the brightest future, we need to hear from everyone. We need to hear from you. Join five tech industry veterans in this exploration of the relationship between doing and writing about tech, and learn why the future depends on you.
On the panel we will have
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Adaobi Obi Tulton - Adaobi Obi Tulton is a freelance editor and owner of Serendipity23 Editorial Services and has been in publishing for over twenty years. In addition to editing for Pragmatic Bookshelf, she has edited for tech publishers such as Wiley, O'Reilly, and Apress. She is also a freelance copyeditor and proofreader for publishers such as Hachette Book Group and Hay House and companies such as Orthogonal and Project Lead The Way. She proudly indulges in her nerdiness in New York City with her husband, anime-loving daughter, and cat, Benton Pancakes.
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Dave Rankin - Dave Rankin is the Executive Editor at the Pragmatic Bookshelf and a co-founder of Field15, Inc., where he's worked on software development projects for clients ranging from Fortune 500s to the federal government. Dave has taught writing at the university level, has been a technical writer and editor for a New York Times web property, and has worked as a technical editor for DigitalOcean. When not tethered to a computer, you'll most likely find Dave tucked away on some secluded North Atlantic beach with his family.
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Erica Sadun - Erica Sadun writes lots of books. When not writing or coding, she parents geeks who are brushing up on their world domination skills. According to her academic dosimeter, she's acquired more education than any self-respecting person might consider wise. She enjoys deep diving into technology and has written, co-written, and contributed to dozens of books about computing and digital media. Sadun has blogged at TUAW, Ars Technica, O'Reilly, and Lifehacker. She has authored more rejected Swift Language proposals than anyone else.
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Dr. Venkat Subramaniam - Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., and an instructional professor at the University of Houston. He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is regularly invited to speak at international conferences. He’s the (co)author of multiple books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award-winning book Practices of an Agile Developer
- Rachel Nabors - Rachel Nabors works on React and React Native documentation, herding opensource contributions, writing guides, and building educational resources to teach the next million developers. She is also the author of the Animation at Work, a book about using UI animation for better user experiences. In her previous career, she was an award-winning cartoonist making comics for teenage girls! You can find her on Twitter @rachelnabors
And your host for the evening will be Kimberley Cook
There will be opportunities for you to ask these authors and editors questions. We will send out the Zoom details on the morning of the event. If you have any questions please drop us an email [email protected]
