Read the Docs is an open-sourced free software documentation hosting platform. It generates documentation written with the Sphinx documentation generator. 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 for ...

Board awarded a grant of US$840 to the Read the Docs project for one year of hosting fees. On November 13, 2017, the

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project announced that they were moving their documentation to Read the Docs. In 2020, Read the Docs received a $200,000 grant from the

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. 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 2022, it continues holds annual global conferences, organize local meetups, and maintain a Slack channel for "people who care about documentation."

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