Hi All, How are we feeling about GSoD projects? Please let me know ASAP so I can know how to characterize the org proposal. For anyone that hasn’t heard the announcement, there’s a new program similar to GSoC but for documentation where we can get 1 or 2 professional writers to work with us for a couple months on some project.
I’d love to give this new program a try as we have massive quantities of documentation that are massively disorganized. I was brainstorming some possible project ideas and a few come to mind. One would be to tackle one of our DOCUMENTATION section items in the TODO file, like creating a guide to all BRL-CAD primitives or an Intro to BRL-CAD that covers concepts more quickly and broadly than the MGED Tutorial Series. Another idea would be to get *all* existing documentation simply organized and presented online. Another more technical idea would be to revisit the work from a few years ago that presented and set up bidirectional editing of our Docbook docs. I’d be happy to write up the project descriptions for our application, but wondering who all might be interested in mentoring. We need 2-4 people to mentor and unlike GSoC, code familiarity isn’t as essential as is availability to help educate the technical writer on where things are, how to checkout from repo, how to compile docs, how the website is set up, etc. Cheers! Sean _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list brlcad-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
