https://blog.readthedocs.com/archive/tag/behind-the-scenes/atom.xml 2021-07-06T00:00:00Z ABlog https://blog.readthedocs.com/behind-the-scenes-2021-1/ 2021-07-06T00:00:00Z 2021-07-06T00:00:00Z Juan Luis Cano Rodríguez <div class="section" id="early-2021-talks-and-podcasts-from-read-the-docs"> <p>During the first half of 2021 several team members of Read the Docs have talked about the company in podcasts and online events. If you want to learn more about our company directly from the people that are a core part of it, and hear our thoughts on other topics like open source sustainability and developer advocacy, this blog post is for you.</p> <div class="section" id="eric-sustain-podcast"> <h2>Eric &#64; Sustain podcast</h2> <p><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ericholscher">Eric</a> was the special guest of <a class="reference external" href="https://podcast.sustainoss.org/">Sustain</a> back in February, “a podcast about sustaining open source in the long haul”. Eric started by telling the story of how he and <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/agjohnson">Anthony</a> co-founded Read the Docs, talked about the <a class="reference external" href="https://www.writethedocs.org/">Write the Docs</a> community, described the challenges of launching <a class="reference external" href="https://www.ethicalads.io/">EthicalAds</a> in 2020, and discussed the opportunities of using ethical advertising to fund open source projects.</p> <p>Listen to Eric online:</p> <a class="reference external image-reference" href="https://podcast.sustainoss.org/66"><img alt="../../../_images/eric-sustain.png" class="align-center" src="../../../_images/eric-sustain.png" /></a> </div> <div class="section" id="juan-luis-data-for-future-podcast"> <h2>Juan Luis &#64; Data for Future podcast</h2> <p>Also in June, <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/astrojuanlu">Juan Luis</a> was invited for the second time to <a class="reference external" href="https://dataforfuture.org/">Data for Future</a>, a podcast that seeks to “inspire positive actions towards an environmentally sustainable and socially just future through technology”. In an informal conversation, Juan Luis shared some numbers about the state of software documentation according to several surveys, promoted the <a class="reference external" href="https://diataxis.fr/">Diátaxis</a> documentation framework created by Daniele Procida, discussed his role as Developer Advocate at Read the Docs, and shared some possible opportunities for collaboration between Data Science practitioners and technical writers.</p> <p>Listen to Juan Luis online:</p> <a class="reference external image-reference" href="https://dataforfuture.org/episodes/39-making-documentation-sexy-juan-luis-cano-read-the-docs/"><img alt="../../../_images/juan-luis-data-for-future.png" class="align-center" src="../../../_images/juan-luis-data-for-future.png" /></a> </div> <div class="section" id="eric-upstream-2021-online-conference"> <h2>Eric &#64; Upstream 2021 online conference</h2> <p>Read the Docs and EthicalAds supported <a class="reference external" href="https://upstream.live/">Upstream 2021</a> in June, a one-day online event about “open source, the developers who use it, and the maintainers who make it”. <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/ericholscher">Eric</a> delivered a talk titled <a class="reference external" href="https://explore.tidelift.com/upstream/main/session-eric-holscher">“Bootstrapping a sustainable open source project: The Read the Docs story”</a>, in which he dived into some of the less known details of how Read the Docs was created, shared the different funding strategies the company attempted over the years, opened up about the dangers of burnout, and detailed the different commercial plans of Read the Docs as well as some thoughts about pricing schemes.</p> <p>Watch Eric online:</p> <a class="reference external image-reference" href="https://explore.tidelift.com/upstream/main/session-eric-holscher"><img alt="../../../_images/eric-upstream.png" class="align-center" src="../../../_images/eric-upstream.png" /></a> <hr class="docutils" /> <p>Considering using Read the Docs for your next Sphinx or MkDocs project? Check out <a class="reference external" href="https://docs.readthedocs.io/">our documentation</a> to get started!</p> </div> </div>