[pystatsmodels] Fwd: [GSoC Mentors] Google Season of Docs (GSoD) Proposal - your feedback is appreciated

[j***@gmail.com]

Google is thinking about creating an equivalent of GSOC for documentation
but with professional tech writers as target group instead of students.
They are currently looking for feedback to the idea and proposal.

Our documentation could benefit greatly from a face lift.

I see two main problems for our potential participation

- required statistics background knowledge: The content of our
documentation requires some background in statistics and econometrics or
strong support in mentoring. The presentation does not require much
background for the content, and could be much improved.
- availability of mentors: We would need a mentor that is interested in doc
and presentation improvements. Personally, I don't want to take time for
this and I have no comparative advantage in style/presentation
improvements. But this would possibly be a good opportunity to improve our
doc website if someone else is interested.

volunteers?
Should we provide feedback to Google's proposal or just ignore it?

Josef



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Date: Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:47 PM
Subject: [GSoC Mentors] Google Season of Docs (GSoD) Proposal - your
feedback is appreciated
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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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[Pabla Simranjit Singh]

Hi
I think that you should give it a *try* because it will be helpful to new
contributors like me. As i was new to this group and find some *difficulty*
to a kick-start as i am from *C.S*(computer science) field , I have to
learn from documentation and if the documentation will be *updated* and it
will be helpful for both the org and contributors.And this group has helped
me a lot from where to start and what to learn.And this is a *personal*
review but the final decision will be your's Sir Josef

Cheers
Simranjit

Post by j***@gmail.com
Google is thinking about creating an equivalent of GSOC for documentation
but with professional tech writers as target group instead of students.
They are currently looking for feedback to the idea and proposal.
Our documentation could benefit greatly from a face lift.
I see two main problems for our potential participation
- required statistics background knowledge: The content of our
documentation requires some background in statistics and econometrics or
strong support in mentoring. The presentation does not require much
background for the content, and could be much improved.
- availability of mentors: We would need a mentor that is interested in
doc and presentation improvements. Personally, I don't want to take time
for this and I have no comparative advantage in style/presentation
improvements. But this would possibly be a good opportunity to improve our
doc website if someone else is interested.
volunteers?
Should we provide feedback to Google's proposal or just ignore it?
Josef
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: 'sttaylor' via Google Summer of Code Mentors List <
Date: Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:47 PM
Subject: [GSoC Mentors] Google Season of Docs (GSoD) Proposal - your
feedback is appreciated
To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List <
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).
-
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
https://goo.gl/3Bpris
We're inviting you to fill out this form to help us gauge interest in the
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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[Kartikay Bhutani]

I think this is interesting and also I have been doing this since some time.
It helps learning since to write docs you have to learn deeply like a
developer

I have been doing this for Pandas
Check here
https://auth.geeksforgeeks.org/user/KartikayBhutani/articles



On Mon, 29 Oct 2018, 11:14 pm Pabla Simranjit Singh, <

Post by Pabla Simranjit Singh
Hi
I think that you should give it a *try* because it will be helpful to new
contributors like me. As i was new to this group and find some
*difficulty* to a kick-start as i am from *C.S*(computer science) field ,
I have to learn from documentation and if the documentation will be
*updated* and it will be helpful for both the org and contributors.And
this group has helped me a lot from where to start and what to learn.And
this is a *personal* review but the final decision will be your's Sir
Josef
Cheers
Simranjit

Post by j***@gmail.com
Google is thinking about creating an equivalent of GSOC for documentation
but with professional tech writers as target group instead of students.
They are currently looking for feedback to the idea and proposal.
Our documentation could benefit greatly from a face lift.
I see two main problems for our potential participation
- required statistics background knowledge: The content of our
documentation requires some background in statistics and econometrics or
strong support in mentoring. The presentation does not require much
background for the content, and could be much improved.
- availability of mentors: We would need a mentor that is interested in
doc and presentation improvements. Personally, I don't want to take time
for this and I have no comparative advantage in style/presentation
improvements. But this would possibly be a good opportunity to improve our
doc website if someone else is interested.
volunteers?
Should we provide feedback to Google's proposal or just ignore it?
Josef
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: 'sttaylor' via Google Summer of Code Mentors List <
Date: Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:47 PM
Subject: [GSoC Mentors] Google Season of Docs (GSoD) Proposal - your
feedback is appreciated
To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List <
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).
-
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
https://goo.gl/3Bpris
We're inviting you to fill out this form to help us gauge interest in the
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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