If I'm not mistaken rules are: one tech writer - 2 mentors So I doubt all proposals will be covered We have to wisely choose best proposals, and hopefully next year we will get more tech writers
On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 at 04:57, Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy <aizha...@google.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi Sharan, > > We plan to prepare ideas list for at least 2 Apache projects, in particular > for Airflow, Beam and possibly Spark. I am sure there are other projects > that would like to participate, therefore I’m wondering whether 2 tech > writers will be enough? Can we ask for more? > > I’m happy to chat further to figure out what’s the best course of action. > > Thanks, > Aizhamal > > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 14:03 Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi All > > > > As mentioned the applications for the Google Season of Docs opened today > > and I'm working my way through it on behalf of the ASF. > > > > If accepted, we will be allocated either one or two techical writers. > > Google will also pay the ASF a stipend of $500 per technical writer > > mentored (which I hope can go directly to fundraising :-) > > > > Each project that wants to participate must provide two mentors for each > > documentation project. > > > > As part of the application process there are a few things that we need to > > setup. > > > > 1. Season of Docs Page and List of Project Ideas > > We need to create a public webpage about Season of Docs that contains the > > list of project ideas for documentation. I have created a page on the > > ComDev wiki https://s.apache.org/w4CH with a table for projects to > > record their ideas. > > > > 2. Alternative administrator. > > I’ve set myself up as the primary admin and Maxim as the alternative > admin > > (Maxim, I need to confirm your contact email and you will also need to > > register as the alternative admin and I will email you the link offline) > > > > 3. Mentors > > All mentors from the projects interested in participating must register > > individually at the following link : https://forms.gle/a1x26WQGzURLerv66 > . > > > > 4. Application Form: Documentation / Technnial Writer Collaboration > > There is a section to fill in about experience with documentation and any > > previous collaboration with technical writers. I know a few projects have > > used various tools for documentation - but not sure about any technical > > writing collaboration (so if you know of any then please let me know) > > > > 5. Application Form: GSoC > > There is a section to complete at our participation in GSoC.I think I > have > > the details from our application this year so can follow up with Maxim or > > Uli about it > > > > This is all I have at the moment and we have until the 23rd April 2019 to > > finalise all the application details. Ideally I want to have it done well > > before then :-) > > > > Please pass on this information within your various projects and as with > > GSoC - I'll see how we can get this information out to all our project > > mailing lists. > > > > Thanks > > Sharan > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > > > > -- > > *Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy* > > Open Source Program Manager > > 646-355-9740 Mobile > > 601 North 34th Street, Seattle, WA 98103 > -- WBR Maxim aka solomax
