Who we are

We are a group of technical writers, independent collaborators and organizations who work on web documentation projects according to our charter.

Writers

  • Estelle Weyl

    Estelle is a Sr. Technical Writer and Developer Advocate on the open web docs team. She is a front end engineer with 20-years of CSS, JS and HTML experience, Estelle has always been a web standardista, advocating for a free, accessible, and performant web. Estelle has been documenting and teaching web standards since 2007, writing numerous books, blogs, and tutorials. She’s typing with her cat and dogs in San Francisco.

    • Estelle's GitHub
    • Estelle's Mastodon
    • Estelle's Website

  • Florian Scholz

    Florian is the Director of Open Web Docs. He began volunteer editing MDN as a teen in 2009 and previously worked at Mozilla as MDN's Lead Content Strategist, Technical Writer & Documentation Engineer from 2013 until 2020. He's one of the creators of the browser compatibility data (BCD) project and it makes him happy when open source projects collaborate. He lives in Bremen, Germany; not Berlin. Other than submitting and reviewing PRs on GitHub, he enjoys listening to wave and post-punk music.

    • Florian's GitHub
    • Florian's Mastodon
    • Florian's LinkedIn page
    • Florian's Website

  • Queen Vinyl Da.i'gyu-Kazotetsu

    Vinyl is a contractor working for Open Web Docs, leading the browser compatibility data (BCD) project that millions of developers around the world rely on. Previously a contractor at Google and Mozilla and a long-time BCD community member, Vinyl has a lot of experience with compatibility on the open web. She was already the number #1 contributor to the BCD repository before officially joining our team! When she's not submitting pull requests to BCD, she's usually slicing blocks to the music in Beat Saber or staffing at various conventions across the globe.

    • Vinyl's GitHub
    • Vinyl's Mastodon
    • Vinyl's personal Website

  • Will Bamberg

    Will Bamberg is a perfectionist and professional pedant who has been writing about the web for a long time, mostly on MDN. He enjoys learning about new aspects of the web platform and then turning that knowledge into accessible documentation. He believes that writing good documentation depends on understanding what it's like for someone who is learning something new or looking for the answer to their question.

    • William's GitHub

Governing Committee

Our Governing Committee administers the financial sponsorships made via Open Collective, and explores strategic partnerships and needs for web documentation projects. Governing Committee members are representatives of organizations sponsoring at the Platinum level, elected representatives from the Gold membership level, and OWD’s Director.

  • Google
  • Igalia
  • Microsoft Edge

In addition, the following individuals are advisory members on the OWD governing committee:

  • Daniel Appelquist (Volunteer)
  • Dominique Hazael-Massieux (W3C)
  • Jory Burson (Volunteer)

Steering Committee

Our Steering Committee develops and implements shared public roadmaps for key documentation priorities, and facilitates community involvement and execution of those priorities. Steering Committee members are invited on the basis of their expertise and perspective, and represent a mix of individual developers, standards developing organizations, non-sponsoring organizations, and other key stakeholders.

Our Steering Committee includes representatives from the following organizations:

  • Apple
  • Google
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Canva
  • Igalia
  • Mozilla
  • Samsung Internet
  • W3C

Members emeriti

  • Jean-Yves Perrier was part of Open Web Docs as a full-time Sr. Technical Writer from August 2021 until August 2024.