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Sarah Rainsberger

Leading community-driven, open-source documentation.

Astro Core Maintainer 🚀 Docs Lead 📑 Technical Writer ✍️ Bird Photographer 📷 🐦 Far away shot of me standing on a stage (giving a talk) in a dark room front of a huge slide monitor showing "1,000 contributors" surrounded by hundreds of GitHub avatar circles and the Astro logo in a few places.

#nwtwwhb-not-worse-than-what-we-had-before2

Talks

📺 Docs as Community Building - ViteConf 2024

📺 Stop writing docs; Start helping - Frontend Nation 2024

📺 One year of Starlight: Astro’s community-built documentation theme - Astro Together 2024

📺 Making effective contributions to open-source documentation - Distribute Aid, Open Source Explorers 2024

📺 Stop writing docs; Start helping - ViteConf 2023

📺 Happy Contributors, High Standards: Pick two! Balancing quality and community in open-source documenatation - Write the Docs Australia 2022

📺 Learning in the Browser - ReactConf 2021

📺 Jamstack in the Browser (Lightning Talk) - TheJam.dev 2022

YouTube playlist of all talks

Interviews / Appearances

🎙️ SustainOSS Podcast: Episode 272: Maintainer Month 2025 with Sarah Rainsberger of Astro

📺 GitHub Open Source Friday 2025: Astro Docs

🎙️ Kelvin Omereshone's Twitter Space Jan 2023: Making Documentation Developers Love (listen on YouTube) / (listen on Spotify)

🎙️ GitHub ReadME Podcast: Episode 31: Bridging code and community

📰 GitHub ReadME Project June 2023: Non-code contributions are the secret to open source success - Klint Finley

🎙️ Hanselminutes Podcast September 2023: Episode 911: Documentation as a path to Open Source

📺 ViteConf 2023: Community and Contributors Panel - Sarah Rainsberger, Brittney Postma, Anthony Fu, and Matias Capeletto, with This Dot Labs' Tracy Lee as host, discuss how to get involved in open source and foster healthier communities.

Blog Posts

👩‍💻 Doc'ing the docs!

👩‍💻 Astro's community-driven docs

👩‍💻 The value of non-code contributions to open source

Open-Source

Astro ~ https://github.com/withastro/

@sarah11918 Astro contributions

Where to find me

🦣 - @sarah11918@mastodon.social

🦋 - @sarah11918.rainsberger.ca

🌐 - rainsberger.ca

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Sarah Rainsberger with a tiny bird sitting on her outstretched palm.Sarah Rainsberger wearing a very large camera and lens on a camera harness, and another photo outside in a woodland/marsh area taking bird photos

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  1. withastro/contribute.docs.astro.build withastro/contribute.docs.astro.build Public

    An entire Starlight site for the Astro Docs contributor guides.

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  2. withastro/docs withastro/docs Public

    Astro documentation

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