I did not. We'll figure out the best way to do this for next year. On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 3:59 PM Deepak Vohra <dvohr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I don't know if you applied. > [Season of Docs - Announcements] Organization application phase is now > closed > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- > *From:* Deepak Vohra <dvohr...@yahoo.com> > *To:* dev@cassandra.apache.org <dev@cassandra.apache.org> > *Sent:* Thursday, March 10, 2022, 02:05:51 p.m. EST > *Subject:* Re: GSOD 2022 > > I sent the following clarification request to GSoD: > > > "Apache Cassandra, an open source project under Apache Software Foundation > (ASF), and a GSoD 2019-20 participant, might be interested in applying as > an organization to GSoD 2022. Apache Cassandra mainly does code development > and documentation and is not structured for the administrative tasks of > collecting a GSoD grant if accepted, hiring technical writer/s, and > disbursing grant funds. > > How could Apache Cassandra apply as an organization?" > > I got following reply from GSoD: > > "If you don’t have a bank account for your project, you can sign up with > Open Source Collective to be your fiscal host, which means they will hold > the funds on your behalf as you pay them out. No fees from Open Source > Collective will apply to your grant payment. You can find more information > on grants and opening an Open Collective account here > <https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/org-payments> or email > Open Collective directly for more information through > supp...@opencollective.com. > > Regarding technical writers, please review the selecting a technical > writer > <https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/tech-writer-selection?hl=en> > guide > and our GitHub <https://github.com/google/season-of-docs> page." > > GitHub - google/season-of-docs: Supporting materials for Google's Season... > > Supporting materials for Google's Season of Docs 2021 - GitHub - > google/season-of-docs: Supporting materials for... > <https://github.com/google/season-of-docs> > THANKS, > Deepak > > > > > > On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, 11:57:55 a.m. EST, Dinesh Joshi < > djo...@apache.org> wrote: > > > 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 > >>>> > >>> > > > >
