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title: "Recording of Open Authoring – Collaboration Across Disciplines presentation, by Ralph Squillace"
date: 2016-11-15
description: "Audio Presentation description About Ralph Squillace  Audio Here’s the audio from Ralph’s presentation:  Listen to this presentation: <audio..."
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# Recording of Open Authoring – Collaboration Across Disciplines presentation, by Ralph Squillace
> Ralph Squillace, a senior content engineer for the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure team based in San Francisco, California, recently gave a presentation to the STC Silicon Valley chapter (on November 14, 2016) on *Open Authoring -- Collaboration Across Disciplines*. In the presentation, Ralph talks about Microsoft's approach to scaling their authoring and publishing efforts across the company by embracing Markdown, Github, open source tools, and other processes that allowed everyone in the company to write and contribute to Azure's documentation.

## Audio

Here’s the audio from Ralph’s presentation:

**Listen to this presentation:**

You can [download the MP3 file](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/ralph_squillace.mp3), [subscribe in iTunes](https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/id-rather-be-writing-podcast/id277365275), or [listen with Stitcher](http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/id-rather-be-writing-technical-writing-podcast).

The slides are here:

 ** [Open Authoring: Content Collaboration Across Disciplines with Ralph Squillace](//www.slideshare.net/InfoDevWorld/open-authoring-content-collaboration-across-disciplines-with-ralph-squillace) ** from **[Information Development World](//www.slideshare.net/InfoDevWorld)**