Read the Docs is an open-sourced free software documentation hosting platform. It generates documentation written with the
Sphinx documentation generator,
MkDocs, or
Jupyter
Project Jupyter (pronounced "Jupiter") is a project to develop open-source software, open standards, and services for interactive computing across multiple programming languages.
It was spun off from IPython in 2014 by Fernando Pérez and Brian ...
Book.
History
The site was created in 2010 by Eric Holscher, Bobby Grace, and Charles Leifer.
On March 9, 2011, the
Python Software Foundation
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is an American nonprofit organization devoted to the Python programming language, launched on March 6, 2001. The mission of the foundation is to foster development of the Python community and is responsible fo ...
Board awarded a grant of US$840 to the Read the Docs project for one year of hosting fees. On November 13, 2017, the
Linux Mint
Linux Mint is a community-developed Linux distribution. It is based on Ubuntu and designed for x86-64 based computers; another variant is based on Debian which is named Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) and has both 64-bit and IA-32 support. T ...
project announced that they were moving their documentation to Read the Docs. In 2020, Read the Docs received a $200,000 grant from the
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) is an organization established and owned by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan with an investment of 99 percent of the couple's wealth from their Facebook shares over their lifetim ...
. For 2021, Read the Docs reported 700 million page views and 196 million unique visitors.
In 2013, a "Write the Docs" conference for Read the Docs users was launched, which has since turned into a generic software-documentation community. As of 2024, it continues to hold annual global conferences, organize local meetups, and maintain a
Slack channel for "people who care about documentation."
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Application software
Documentation generators
Software using the MIT license
Free software programmed in Python
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