 Take the yeah remove that evidence because others are to sit here and eat it. Hi Hey, you're doing great. Excellent. I promise this little bit where I actually talk to you guys and have actual content My talk is really really short. Then we're gonna actually go outside and do the fun stuff So what I want to talk about is called every pages page one has anyone heard of this this new to everybody You've heard of it. Okay. All right So every pages page one This is a documentation model essentially and what we're trying to do is break this idea of a book And this is something that the early speakers have all spoken about too books are boring books are dead And David Ryan mentioned it fairly extensively. We're not interested in books anymore It's all about getting content and getting content in a really efficient way So what we need to do is make sure that every topic that people hit is the first topic that they can read and it Makes sense within their context. So this is this is a book by Mark Baker. He has a website as well Which is quite interesting. I strongly suggest you read the book if you're interested in this kind of stuff, so I Know I know books are dead and actually mentions the irony of that in the beginning of his book It's like this is so crazy. I'm writing this book about every pages page one So what we're trying to sort of remove? remove ourselves from this strictly imposed order that books give us and move towards more a collection of content and The way I like to explain this to people is to talk about the difference between say encyclopedia Britannica and Wikipedia When you go to a Wikipedia page, it doesn't matter which page you read first and it doesn't matter what Information that you have in your head already that you bring to it if you don't understand something in a Wikipedia page You can click through and get more information Now I don't know any of you guys, but I want to demonstrate what my thought process looks like when I go and Look for information I'm one of these people who likes to read I like to watch movies and that kind of thing and I always like to do my tablets So I bought a 10-inch tablet so basically so that I could sit on the couch and look at IMDB and Wikipedia while I was going and I have this whole thing and it's I end up with all these questions about what I'm doing like, you know What was the what's the one I was thinking of that I was gonna go to men It's Genova. You're a real place. That was one that I looked up Also is I came powder really tasteless. This was this was something that really came out and what was it? It was interesting to me So of course I've got my Android tablet I'm sitting there and the first thing I do is is Google it but I end up picking up all this rather random interesting stuff as well So I start out googling for Iocaine, right? Get sidetracked by dr. Who end up looking about binary stars and Then end up looking at random hip-hop artists that I've never heard of it. So who's done this? Have we all done this? Yes, exactly and this is what one page of every pages page one That's what this is about. It's being able to leap between this information in that kind of fashion So like I said wikipedia is a really great example You can read one page in isolation and then go on and get the information you need and move on or you can dig Deeper and keep going It also helps to cater for different knowledge and that's why I've put up a admittedly silly man page This is generator. It's a it's a git man page generator. It's funny. Go Google for it Um So basically what we're doing is saying you don't need to worry if you're writing something say you're writing something reasonably technically Complicated you don't actually need to worry about whether or not someone understands basic Linux commands because you could just To include a link they can go and look up those basic Linux commands if they want to they don't need it They can move right on it doesn't ruin their day So getting back to Epo the way of thinking about this is to turn the usual content generation model on its head Generally what we used to do is curate the content first and then produce that information for people all nicely digested What we're actually trying to do is put all the information out there and allow users to curate that themselves And a really good example of this is car sales comm that are you the reason I like this is because yeah I don't does actually say on there how many listings they have I think it does yes 201,000 this is a screenshot for a few days ago because I write my slides really late So yeah 200 200,000 200,000 listings there That's a lot of cards to go sifting through what you can do that is you can then narrow it down and what's a website to do this You use this you use these selectors down the side and all of a sudden you narrowed it down to the kind of car You want to make model you where it's located how much you want to spend all those kinds of things So this is the idea about curating content once it's been created Rather than the other way around so you know obviously eventually with car sales You find the perfect car for you and this is basically end user curation It's finest and this is where I'd like to get my documentation to So, okay, I promise that's the boring bit What I want to do is everyone aware of this book Is everyone know we're going on a band that anyway doesn't know we're going on a bear hunt. I'm sorry guys Okay, so I'll have to very quickly run you through the book. I promise I won't read it This is actually my daughter's book. It still has her name in it. She's sitting up there So, thank you Talia for the use of the book. So basically what happens is the family set out on a bear hunt Right and they've run into all these obstacles now a children's book and they're not scared not even a little bit So they run into all these obstacles that they can't they you know, they have trouble They can't go over it and they can't go under it and Talia and I always did wonder why they didn't go round a lot of things But they don't seem to they always end up going through it And so there's all these various obstacles now the interesting thing about children's books They're often presented in narrative form like this You start at the beginning and you go through to the end But the fact is it doesn't matter which order these obstacles come in you can get these get through these obstacles Any way you like either way you're still going to end up in the end with a Bear All right, you still get to the cave. You still get the bear You still get scared you have to run back through all the grass and the snowstorm and all those kinds of things And then you get home hide under the covers and that's the end of the story It's always happy ending the point I want to make is we always start and end at home But the things that we do while we're while we're out walking around in our adventure looking for a bear It doesn't matter which order they come in and so in order to demonstrate that I have several printouts from said book I have some Play-Doh because Play-Doh's fun, and I did Lego last year. I Also have some dice to add a little bit of error of chance into the game because you know bears are a bit chancey I also have chocolates to bribe you all to come out into the hallway and play with me So he's ready to go out and chase the bear Let's do it by show of hands not a tech writer There's your answer spin Yeah, sis admin software engineer What was that human and there's one human? What do you do? We don't have enough microphones To testing okay I'm kind of a big mess of things. I'm actually software developer really but at the moment. I do a support role in Docker and I'm one of the documentation to the maintainers and writers for the Docker project. So I Don't know what my role is either. I just do stuff. Yeah That's why I was asking the question then I guess I'll talk about that point