On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 5:37 AM Bennet Fauber <ben...@umich.edu> wrote:
> I can offer some time for alpha or beta reading and proofreading. > > I have experience as a proofreader, copy editor (American Statistical > Association), and mathematical typesetter (Wiley, Academic Press, > Addison-Wesley, et al.). I've taught statistical software workshops, > (very) introductory python, have a Software Carpentry instructor > certificate, and work daily with people who are finding themselves > needing technical and scientific computing but who don't have strong > backgrounds. Hopefully that would be good context for early review of > a couple of the projects. > Awesome, thanks Bennet! > I will add my name to the poll, if that's OK? > Yes definitely! Cheers, Ralf > -- bennet > > On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 9:03 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 4:46 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gomm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Google has announced the Season of Docs participants for this year [1]. > We had a lot of excellent candidates and had to make some hard choices. We > applied for extra slots, but unfortunately didn't win the lottery for > those; we got one slot for NumPy and one for SciPy. We chose the projects > of Anne for NumPy and Maja for SciPy: > >> > >> Anne Bonner, "Making "The Basics" a Little More Basic: Improving the > Introductory NumPy Sections" [2] > >> > >> Maja Gwozdz, "User-oriented documentation and thorough restructuring" > [3] > >> > >> That's not all though. There was some space left in the budget of the > NumPy BIDS grant, and Stéfan has reserved that so we can accept more > writers and provide them the same mentoring and funding as they would have > gotten through GSoD. We could only start the conversations about that once > Google made its decisions, so a further announcement will follow. However, > we already have one extra project confirmed, from Brandon: > >> > >> Brandon David, "Improve the documentation of scipy.stats" (project > details to be published). > > > > > > Happy to announce that we have a fourth participant: > > > > Shekhar Rajak, "numpy.org redesign and high level documentation > restructuring for end user focus" > > > > Welcome Shekhar! > > > >> I will send out a poll to find a good time for everyone for a kickoff > call. Our intent is to build a documentation team with multiple writers and > mentors interacting and able to help each other out. And all of this will > also interact with the numpy.org website redesign and the people putting > energy into that:) > > > > > > Here is the poll link: https://doodle.com/poll/skgbk74gsg8zpziu. I hope > we can find a time that works for everyone - we're split over all US > timezones, Europe and India. So it's going to be early morning or late > evening somewhere. > > > > Sending this out in public, so anyone who wants to participate is > welcome to join. I've Bcc'd all participants and mentors, to make sure they > see this. > > > > Cheers, > > Ralf > > > > > >> > >> > >> I'm very happy to welcome Anne, Maja and Brandon! > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Ralf > >> > >> > >> [1] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/ > >> [2] > https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/project-numpy > >> [3] > https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/project-scipy > > > > _______________________________________________ > > SciPy-Dev mailing list > > scipy-...@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-dev > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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