Jennifer Dust
Aten Design Group, Senior Manager of DevOps
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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With a background of design and development, Jennifer is a seasoned full stack developer with years of experience using Drupal & WordPress. She holds two master’s degrees, one in Computer Science and the other in Business Administration with a focus on Project Management.
Area of Expertise
Disability in the workplace: Asking for accommodations
As a disabled person in the workplace it can be overwhelming sometimes to ask for even the smallest accommodation. Since becoming disabled I’ve had to unlearn a lot with regards to my own feelings of asking for help, there have been so many times where I didn’t feel I was ‘bad enough’ to warrant getting accommodations & if I’m honest it’s been years and I still struggle with this. I didn’t know how to ask for things that would make my working life better or the options I had when it came to getting the support I needed. In this session I want to share the things I’ve learned so that other people will feel empowered to reach out and get the assistance they need.
The good, the bad, the documentation: how to craft effective documentation
How many times have you picked up a project and not been able to understand what is going on or why something was set a specific way; for me it's been more times than I care to count. Documentation can seem like an overwhelming task when working on a project, either there isn’t enough time allocated to accurately write some or what is there doesn’t actually make sense. I’ve spent lots of time as a developer trying to figure out how much documentation is enough and how to effectively communicate something that will be understood months or years from now.
The objective of this workshop is to engage and empower those attending with the skills to craft better documentation for themselves and for development communities. Figuring out how to start can feel like a daunting task, within this session we will do a hands-on review with a few examples of documentation and identify the areas it lacks with regards to communication, clarity, and thoroughness. Then we will walk through outlining documentation needs and how to implement them in thoughtful and straightforward ways. Documentation itself is a tool we should feel comfortable creating & using; it’s my goal that at the end of this workshop people will be encouraged to start improving their own documentation and contributing within the open source community as a whole.
DDI Camp 2022 Sessionize Event
DrupalCon Portland 2022 Sessionize Event
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