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The Life of a Content Developer Working on Microsoft Learn

What’s it like working on one of the largest open-source projects in the world used by millions of developers to achieve their goals? Do you want to learn how the content development teams at Microsoft create relevant and up-to-date content on Microsoft Learn? If so, then this session is for you!

In this session, you will see how we use GitHub and Visual Studio Code to create the Microsoft Learn documentation. We will explore:

- Use the Documentation as Code approach to write, edit, and publish content in GitHub
- Explore the open-source repositories of Microsoft Learn and see how we contribute to them
- Follow the git typical workflow to create, review, and merge changes
- Use VS Code and the Learn Authoring Pack to work with markdown and YAML files that make up the documentation and training modules

By the end of this session, you will understand how the documentation on Microsoft Learn is created and maintained by the writers at Microsoft and the open-source community.

Alvin Ashcraft

Sr. Content Developer at Microsoft and TechBash Organizer

West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States

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