8 writers in under 8 months: from zero to a docs team in no time flat – Lana Brindley
- Co Presenting with Alexandra Settle
- 8 months ago online 1 documentation person at rackspace
- Hired a couple people
- Horrible documentation suite
- Hired some more
- 4 in Australia, 4 in the US
- Building a team fast without a terrible culture
- Management by MEME – everybody had a meme created for them when they started
- Not all work and No play. But we still get a lot of work done
- Use tech to overcome geography
- Treat people as humans not robots
- Always stay flexible. Couch time, Gym time
- Finding the right people
- Work your network , job is probably not going to be advertise on linkedin, bad for diversity
- Find great people, and work out how to hire them
- If you do want a job, network
- Toolchains and Systems
- Have a vision and work towards it
- acknowledge imperfection. If you can’t fix, ack and just move forward anyway
- You can maintain crazy growth forever. You have to level off.
- Pair US person with AU person for projects
- Writers should attend Docs summit and encouraged to attend at least one Openstack summit
