Daniele Procida

Some qualities are not values easily read off from the world, like a temperature or number. How do you measure, track, represent and drive engineering quality, without crudely reducing it to something it is not?

In a hands-on workshop I'll introduce some of the tools and methods I have developed to help an organisation improve documentation consistently and effectively, at scale.

As creators of software, we're repeatedly told that we're not merely imagining the future of the world, but bringing it into being. Let's suppose that's true. What, exactly, are we imagining, and why does it matter?

Our EuroPython takes place in Prague - a city with some lessons for us, about programming, software and technology. More than 100 years ago Prague produced buildings that hint at how far our ideas in software might take us, and writers and artists who imagined challenges that have lately become...

Dogs wag their tails. When the opposite happens, it represents a disturbing, problematic reversal of the proper order. But not in software and its documentation! I believe the tail of documentation can and should wag the dog of software, and I'll show just how powerful this tail can be.

Over the last year, the [Diátaxis documentation framework](https://diataxis.fr) has taken off in popularity. This workshop provides a brief introduction to the framework, and includes a number of hands-on exercises. It will be useful for anyone who has to work with software documentation.

I present an ultra-cheap (€12.50 for all parts, including a Raspberry Pi) Python-powered drawing machine, constructed from cardboard, assembled using basic tools and glue.