IndiaFOSS 2026: the docs devroom
On 26 September 2026 we ran the Documentation and Technical Writing devroom at IndiaFOSS 2026, in Hall 3 at NIMHANS Convention Centre, Bengaluru. Sujatha Mohan, Agriya Khetarpal, and Srihari Thyagarajan organised it. It was the first thing Write the Docs India did after restarting this year.
The devroom was open to anyone who works on docs: technical writers, engineers, documentation architects, translators, and accessibility advocates. Ten talks ran back to back through the morning with no break, and the room stayed full. The whole morning was livestreamed on YouTube.
Schedule
| Time (IST) | Session | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 10:05 | Lightning talk: What FOSS Documentation Needs to Thrive in the Age of AI Search | Pooja Sanwal |
| 10:15 | Lightning talk: Why Documentation Shouldn’t Feel Like Plain Text | Padmashree S S |
| 10:25 | Talk: Documentation That Drives OSS Adoption: Lessons From Bruno | ganesh-bruno |
| 10:45 | Lightning talk: Ctrl+F for 34 Years of India’s GovTech (Building a Public Commons for India’s Digital Governance History) | Vinamra Harkar |
| 11:15 | Lightning talk: Refactoring documentation without breaking it | Srihari Thyagarajan |
| 11:30 | Lightning talk: Changelogs Are Not Enough: Writing Community Memory for Kubernetes | Harini Anand |
| 11:40 | Talk: Writing Docs for Two Readers: Humans and AI Agents | Pritesh Kiri |
| 12:00 | Lightning talk: Python Now Speaks Tamil: Getting Official Docs Translated for a Mother Tongue | Murugan Santhosh |
| 12:10 | Talk: 404: Empathy Not Found | Kalyani Desai, Yash Guddeti |
| 12:30 | Lightning talk: Printable, Downloadable, Forever: An Ode to Offline Documentation | Agriya Khetarpal |
Slides will be linked here as speakers share them.
What’s next
We’re hoping to get city meetups going. The WhatsApp community has a channel for each city, and that’s where the planning happens. If you spoke at the devroom or came to watch and want to help run a meetup where you live, say hello there.