Node.js Live Talk Proposal: Washington

[RichardLitt]

Title

Standardizing Readmes for great good

Abstract

If no one downloads or uses your npm module, you might need better documentation. Your README.md is the first access point for your code: I'll talk about how to use the standard-readme specification to make sure your readmes are high quality, and how the spec (which I developed) is already being used by over a hundred repositories to stop bikeshedding and save time. I'll demo a standard-readme generator and a linter, to help you write your readme. I'll also show how search can be improved by grabbing terms from the description and background, and highlight a bunch of cool ways having standard readme benefits the community as a whole.

Bio

Richard Littauer is a member of Protocol Labs, busy building a better, decentralized, and permanent internet. He is dedicated to community infrastructure, and has run several NodeSchools in the developing and development world, spoken at meetups from New York to Svalbard, and spends a lot of this time making sure that docs are maintained and relevant. He likes books a lot, too.

[RichardLitt]

Repurposed for Washington DC in October, as Boston CFP appears to be closed.

[hackygolucky]

This sounds perfect, @RichardLitt Would love to have you speak in DC!