Hi, Everyone. Google is running its Season of Docs [1] program again this year. The goal of the program is to pair open source organizations/projects with professional technical writers to improve their documentation.
The Flink community submitted an application in 2019 (led by Konstantin) [2,3], but was unfortunately not accepted into the program. This year, I'm volunteering to write and submit the proposal in the upcoming weeks. To achieve this, there are a few things that need to be sorted out in advance: - *Mentors *Each proposed project idea requires at least two volunteers to mentor technical writers through the process. *Who would like to participate as a mentor*? You can read about the responsibilities here [4]. - *Project Ideas *We can submit as many project ideas as we'd like, but it's unlikely that more than 2 are accepted. *What would you consider a priority for documentation improvement*? In my opinion, reorganizing the documentation to make it easier to navigate and more accessible to newcomers would be a top priority. You can check FLIP-42/FLINK-12639 [5] for improvements that are already under consideration and [6] for last year's mailing list discussion. - *Alternative Organization Administrator* I volunteer as an administrator, but Google requires two. *Who would like to join me as an application administrator*? The deadline is *May 4th *and the accepted projects would kick-off the work with technical writers on *September 14th*. Let me know if you have any questions! Thanks, Marta [1] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3c789b6187da23ad158df59bbc598543b652e3cfc1010a14e294e16a@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Up53jNsLztApn-mP76AB6xWUVGt3nwS9p6xQTiceKXo/edit?usp=sharing [4] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/mentor-guide [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-12639 [6] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3c789b6187da23ad158df59bbc598543b652e3cfc1010a14e294e16a@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
