Hi,

Can you please help me contact any of the mentors for the project. I have
already made a few contributions to the project (Update app help) however,
so far, apart from the discussions on my merge requests I haven't been able
to contact anyone from GNOME including the the GSoD mentors via any of the
communication mediums (email, IRC).

As such I am worried about applying for this project for GSoD, since there
seems to be no medium for gathering any direct or indirect suggestions and
feedback about the work that I can do for this project.

Can you please help me contact any of the project mentors with whom I could
talk to about the project itself.

Kind Regards,
Pranali Deshmukh

On Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 3:42 PM Pranali Deshmukh <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Umang,
>
> Thank you so much for your quick reply!
>
> I have already gone through the reference materials listed on the GNOME
> Season of Docs 2020 website for the "Update app help" project. I understand
> that I would have to work on updating the help documentation for the apps
> listed on the ApplicationHelp
> <https://wiki.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Tasks/ApplicationHelp>page
> for apps whose status are currently marked as [REFRESH] or [NEEDSWORK].
> Also I understand that I would need to use Mallard and Yelp-tools for this
> purpose once I have cloned the repository and set-up my profile on GitLab.
> Are there any steps that I am missing here before I can start contributing
> to the project?
>
> Also, unfortunately I haven't been able to track them on IRC whenever I
> logged into it. As such it would be great if anyone here can provide me
> with any alternate contact options for me to get in touch with the project
> mentor.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Pranali Deshmukh
>
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2020 at 18:10, Umang Jain <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Pranali,
>>
>> Thanks for the introduction and your interest in GSoD 2020.
>>
>> Since you already seem to have the understanding of how things work, from
>> your oureachy attempt,
>> I think the best way is to start making a plan and break-down the tasks
>> required in order to achieve
>> the project idea you are targeting for. This will provide a decent base
>> for making a proposal and getting
>> it review-ed by the concerned mentors beforehand. For the context
>> required for the task, I just had a
>> skim of your project idea target on [1] and it seems a lot of reference
>> material is linked there itself with
>> potential mentors who might have vouched for the idea.
>>
>> I understand that there might be a conundrum in choosing/monitoring
>> various communication channels
>> (e.g. mailing list, discourse.gnome.org, IRC, chat.gnome.org .... ) but
>> it's something you need to do initially
>> to see which mentors prefers what mode of communication. After lurking
>> for a while, you will get the hang
>> of it and will figure out the "primary" mode of communication.
>>
>> So have you gone through the reference materials linked on [1]? Do you
>> have any specific questions and/or
>> inputs about it? Maybe then this list would be more useful to you.
>>
>> [1] https://www.gnome.org/news/2020/05/gnome-season-of-docs-2020/
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 8:00 PM Pranali Deshmukh via gnome-doc-list <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am Pranali Deshmukh. I am currently working with Airbus Operations
>>> ltd. as a Data analytics Intern. My internship ends in August 2020.
>>>
>>> I am writing to build an application for GSoD2020 with GNOME. After
>>> going through the project ideas for GNOME, I'm most interested in the
>>> following two projects: Content audit and gap analysis for GNOME - help
>>> update App Help. Having gone through the project ideas listed at the
>>> project ideas page, and the requirements for a technical writer, I feel
>>> that I am fit for the position as I already have experience in technical
>>> writing from my Outreachy project attempt for "Haiku". Also, I have worked
>>> extensively on technical documentation projects in the course of my
>>> internship at Airbus. As such I would like to talk to a mentor.
>>>
>>> In the past, I tried to reach out to some of the folks for a
>>> conversation, but I guess the best way to do it is to talk in more open -
>>> and here I am.
>>>
>>> Looking forward to hearing back from you.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> Pranali Deshmukh
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>>
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