Thanks for forwarding that on Jeff. I agree, it is a great opportunity
for collaboration with OSGeo.
I've replied on behalf of the OSGeoLive project and have reached out to
Sarah Maddox and will be having coffee with her when she is back in
Sydney (where be both live).
Cheers, Cameron
On 17/10/18 4:53 am, Jeff McKenna wrote:
Forwarding an idea for a possible new initiative, that some OSGeo
projects may be interested in. It would be good to give them feedback
either way (through the form).
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At the Mentor Summit we had Sarah Maddox, a tech writer at Google,
come and talk about her idea to bring more technical writers into open
source projects. We would like your feedback and ideas about her
proposal too! If you are intrigued, please keep reading.
Sarah is proposing a Google Season of Docs (GSoD) to give open source
projects more opportunities to engage with technical writers, and vice
versa. See deck: https://goo.gl/3Bpris.
GSoD is similar to Google Summer of Code but focuses on docs and
technical writers, rather than on code and students. The target
participants are experienced tech writers who can work with you on
your docs. The writing part of GSoD will run for 3 months, similar to
GSoC. Another difference is that the technical writers will not be
earning stipends, they will be doing this to learn more about open
source code and working on developer focused docs with code and
building their resume. And the writers will often have other jobs,
this would be a side project for them (not something they will be
focusing on for 30 hours a week - in most cases).
We think GSoD will bring benefits for both parties:
*
Open source projects gain documentation mentors embedded into their
community.
*
Tech writers gain mentorship in OSS and in developer products.
This deck has more details, including ideas on how the mentors will
work with the tech writers, timing, and suggestions for projects:
https://goo.gl/3Bpris
We're inviting you to fill out this form to help us gauge interest in
the proposal. All feedback is welcome:
https://goo.gl/2tfUQQ
This is a proposal for a program, it is not a confirmed program, and
it is not clear which team at Google might manage it. Thanks!
Best,
Stephanie Taylor
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