<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en-IN"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://write-the-docs-india.github.io/debriefs/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://write-the-docs-india.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en-IN" /><updated>2026-09-29T22:52:03+05:30</updated><id>https://write-the-docs-india.github.io/debriefs/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Write the Docs India</title><subtitle>The India chapter of Write the Docs, for people who write and look after documentation.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">IndiaFOSS 2026: the docs devroom</title><link href="https://write-the-docs-india.github.io/debriefs/2026/indiafoss-2026-devroom/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="IndiaFOSS 2026: the docs devroom" /><published>2026-09-28T00:00:00+05:30</published><updated>2026-09-28T00:00:00+05:30</updated><id>https://write-the-docs-india.github.io/debriefs/2026/indiafoss-2026-devroom</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://write-the-docs-india.github.io/debriefs/2026/indiafoss-2026-devroom/"><![CDATA[<p>On 26 September 2026 we ran the <a href="https://fossunited.org/indiafoss/2026/devrooms/docs">Documentation and Technical Writing devroom</a> 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.</p>

<p>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 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/KNKAi9dfZxA">livestreamed on YouTube</a>.</p>

<h2 id="schedule">Schedule</h2>

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      <th>Session</th>
      <th>Speaker</th>
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      <td>10:05</td>
      <td>Lightning talk: What FOSS Documentation Needs to Thrive in the Age of AI Search</td>
      <td>Pooja Sanwal</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>10:15</td>
      <td>Lightning talk: Why Documentation Shouldn’t Feel Like Plain Text</td>
      <td>Padmashree S S</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>10:25</td>
      <td>Talk: Documentation That Drives OSS Adoption: Lessons From Bruno</td>
      <td>ganesh-bruno</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>10:45</td>
      <td>Lightning talk: Ctrl+F for 34 Years of India’s GovTech (Building a Public Commons for India’s Digital Governance History)</td>
      <td>Vinamra Harkar</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>11:15</td>
      <td>Lightning talk: Refactoring documentation without breaking it</td>
      <td>Srihari Thyagarajan</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>11:30</td>
      <td>Lightning talk: Changelogs Are Not Enough: Writing Community Memory for Kubernetes</td>
      <td>Harini Anand</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>11:40</td>
      <td>Talk: Writing Docs for Two Readers: Humans and AI Agents</td>
      <td>Pritesh Kiri</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>12:00</td>
      <td>Lightning talk: Python Now Speaks Tamil: Getting Official Docs Translated for a Mother Tongue</td>
      <td>Murugan Santhosh</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>12:10</td>
      <td>Talk: 404: Empathy Not Found</td>
      <td>Kalyani Desai, Yash Guddeti</td>
    </tr>
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      <td>12:30</td>
      <td>Lightning talk: Printable, Downloadable, Forever: An Ode to Offline Documentation</td>
      <td>Agriya Khetarpal</td>
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  </tbody>
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<p>Slides will be linked here as speakers share them.</p>

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<h2 id="whats-next">What’s next</h2>

<p>We’re hoping to get city meetups going. The <a href="https://chat.whatsapp.com/EwspIErzCWQ4SI4MXKB4D0?mode=gi_t">WhatsApp community</a> 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.</p>]]></content><author><name></name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Ten talks in one morning, and the chapter's restart.]]></summary></entry></feed>