I looked into the GSoD rules for this year and they have changed significantly. Critically, the process requires organizations to collect a list of projects and apply to Google for a grant. This includes project ideas, budget and metrics for success. If the proposal is accepted Google will issue a grant and expect the organizations to select and pay the technical writers. This is a significant change from prior years and I don't think, we (Cassandra community), are setup for this. We need the ASF to apply as an organization as it requires a legal entity to sponsor the whole process including payments. This has come up in a separate discussion on comdev so we'll see how it goes. As GSoD deadline is March 25, I am not sure if we can participate.
> On Mar 8, 2022, at 5:13 PM, Dinesh Joshi <djo...@apache.org> wrote: > > I haven't looked into GSoD this year. However, the scope of a GSoD project > has to be sufficient for the amount of time that is allocated by GSoD. They > had 2 project lengths when we last participated - short & long. Projects need > to be defined accordingly. It is a lot of work and I personally don't have > time to select and mentor the technical writers. I can definitely help guide > the application process as I think we also require someone from the PMC to > actually submit the application. Nate helped me out when we last participated > in GSoD so I'll be happy to help out on that front. > > Here's the page we created for tracking the GSoD Participation and project > ideas: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CASSANDRA/Cassandra+GSoD+2019+application > > It would be a good idea to do something similar and get a sense of where our > documentation is lacking and then proceed from there. > >> On Mar 8, 2022, at 1:56 PM, Lorina Poland <polan...@apache.org> wrote: >> >> I'm willing to take the lead on GSoD. Let me think about what projects I >> think would benefit the docs. >> >> Lorina >> >> On 2022/03/08 16:03:48 Paulo Motta wrote: >>> Any of the docs contributors interested in taking the lead on this? Perhaps >>> Dinesh could share some tips on how to create the GSoD application. >>> >>> I think there is a lot of documentation that needs to be created/migrated, >>> would be nice to have some external help on this. >>> >>> For instance, some virtual tables were added but we have no documentation >>> on them. Perhaps we could have a GSoD project to better document Virtual >>> Tables? >>> >>> Em seg., 7 de mar. de 2022 às 17:54, Deepak Vohra <dvohr...@yahoo.com> >>> escreveu: >>> >>>> Has anyone applied for GSOD this year? Organization application closes >>>> March 25th. >>>> https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline >>>> >>>> >>>> thanks, >>>> Deepak >>>> >>> >
