Speaker - Felicity Brand

Felicity “flicstar” Brand is a technical writer and editor who is passionate about open source. She has more than fourteen years of experience as a technical communicator, and is currently a Communications Consultant at Open Strategy Partners. She creates and edits a variety of technical content and loves to speak about the craft of writing and editing for technical audiences. She is a firm believer in the power of non-code contributions to open source, and especially loves helping non-writers create great written content for their project or community. Felicity currently contributes to the open source CMS, TYPO3, and in 2019 co-founded The Good Docs Project, an open source initiative to create best practice templates for documenting software. Felicity works fully remote, distributed, and asynchronous from Melbourne, Australia.