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Writing Inclusive & Localized Docs for Global Communities

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Transcript

  1. Trust Jamin Writing inclusive & localized docs for global communities.

    Building for Africa

  2. Why Part 1 Why this talk Why Africa matters How

    Part 2 Principles and localization How we’ll win What Part 3 What can you do today? The call to arms Q&A Part 4 Agenda 2

  3. 3 Ever tried setting up a payment gateway and realized

    it doesn’t support your country’s popular method of payment?

  4. Why This Talk 4

  5. 6 Why Africa matters!

  6. Africa matters because Devs Africa 7

  7. The Gaps in Global Docs Dollar-centric examples U.S. idioms &

    metaphors Unsupported infra (e.g., mobile money, mobile transfer)

 Cultural insensitivity 8

  8. Inclusive Writing Principles Plain language Clear navigation No idioms Community

    input Visual explanations 10

  9. Tools & Workflows 9

  10. Shoutout to African Communities 9

  11. 11 How we’ll win

  12. What You Can Do Today Audit your docs
 Add local

    examples Build a style guide Invite local voices Make docs a team sport 13

  13. “Global tools need local docs.”
 Let’s build them—together

  14. Questions? @0xJamin 20 Q&A