Hi Debian, TL;DR: I'm up for mentoring. This is Shreyansh Khajanchi, your GSoC'18 student.
Thank you bringing this forward. I'd love to participate as a mentor in the Season of Doc program and writing this to let it be known. In support, I'd like to present the documentation I did for my own project during the GSoC period. The link is: https://boottorrent.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest Being young, I do not know all and since this is a new program there are a lot of open questions but I'm open to learning. I hope my previous work is satisfactory and if you believe that I can add value as a mentor, please let me know. Hoping to hear from you soon. PS: Please excuse my brevity as I'm typing this from my phone. Thank you. Best, Shreyansh Khajanchi, Engineer & Student, VIT University Web: shreyanshja.in; Ph:(+91)7092850573 On Mon 22 Apr, 2019, 6:52 PM Laura Arjona Reina, <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > TL;DR: > > We want Debian to participate in the first edition of Google Season of > *Docs*. > Deadline for org application is really soon (23 April 20:00UTC). > The program itself will start in September until end of November. > We think we have enough workforce to handle the program, but we need > more mentors (we have several ideas with 1 mentor and we need 2 mentors > per project). You can submit more ideas but tomorrow we'll discard the > ideas with less than two mentors and submit Debian's application for 1-2 > projects. > Details in https://wiki.debian.org/SeasonOfDocs2019 > > Long version: > > Google Open Source has announced its first edition of the "Google Season > of Docs" program, aimed to bring together technical writers and open > source projects, in a program similar to the Google Summer of Code, but > focused in documentation. > > https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/ > > We think that it could be a good opportunity for Debian to participate > this year, with this goals in mind: > * As one more outreach program: extend Debian to new groups of people > * Improve Debian documentation, by means of collaborative work of > the people involved in GSoD and the corresponding Debian teams > * Retain talent and motivation to further work in documentation > areas (not only during the program) > > This year is the first edition and there will be a maximum of 2 > technical writers per organisation. Some people in the outreach team > have talked about participating and we think we can have enough > workforce to apply and handle 1 or 2 persons in 1 or 2 different projects. > > This is our proposal of organisation and guidelines: > * Program Admins: Pranav Jain (outreach team) and Laura Arjona Reina > (website, i18n team) > * Coordination list: [email protected] > * Deadline for Debian submissions: 23 April 20:00 UTC > * The program/mentorship will be: September-October-November 2019 > * Guidelines for GSoD Projects in Debian: see wiki page > https://wiki.debian.org/SeasonOfDocs2019 > * Initial Project ideas: English proofread, Profile parser to get > involved in Debian, Mixed tasks for the Debian website. > > For more details see: https://wiki.debian.org/SeasonOfDocs2019 > > As you can see we have provided some projects as "Project ideas" > already. We're open for more ideas and overall *we need more > mentors/co-mentors* (at least 2 per project, so help is appreciated!). > > Please keep in mind that we'll finally offer/be accepted in only 2 > projects max, so we appreciate to sum forces better than spread them in > many different subprojects. > > We have added a field to add stars "*" to let people show interest in > that project idea happening so you can edit the page and add your > "stars" (3 for your favorite project) so we can prioritise the ideas > when submitting Debian's application. But of course the most prioritised > projects will be the ones having more mentors :-) (in fact, we'll have > to discard the ideas with less than 2 mentors prior to submitting...) > > We'll submit Debian application on April 23rd around 18:00 UTC (deadline > is April 23rd 20:00 UTC) so we encourage interested people in helping > with GSoD (mentoring, helping with paperwork, spreading the word or > welcoming applicants...) to get in touch (in > [email protected]) ASAP. > > Kind regards, > -- > Laura Arjona Reina > https://wiki.debian.org/LauraArjona > >
