<div dir="ltr">Could be quite useful.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">'sttaylor' via Google Summer of Code Mentors List</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:google-summer-of-code-mentors-list@googlegroups.com">google-summer-of-code-mentors-list@googlegroups.com</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 6:32 PM<br>Subject: [GSoC Mentors] Announcing Season of Docs 2019<br>To: Google Summer of Code Mentors List <<a href="mailto:google-summer-of-code-mentors-list@googlegroups.com">google-summer-of-code-mentors-list@googlegroups.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’re delighted to announce the inaugural year of Season of Docs, a Google program that fosters collaboration between open source projects and technical writers. Season of Docs is similar to Summer of Code, but with a focus on open source documentation and technical writers. Details are on our website: </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">g.co/seasonofdocs</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Would you like to take part as an open source mentor in the inaugural year of Season of Docs? Open source organizations can start thinking now about the projects you’d like a technical writer to work on. Take a look at the </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/project-ideas" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">examples of project ideas</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Reach out to your community members to see who’d like to be a mentor for Season of Docs. As a mentor, you don’t need technical writing skills. Instead, you're a member of the open source organization who knows the value of good documentation and who is experienced in open source processes and tools. See the <span class="m_-7892225227812743734ng m_-7892225227812743734AJ" title="Learn more">guidelines</span> on </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/tech-writer-collaboration" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">working with a technical writer</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Organization applications open on April 2, 2019. See the full </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">timeline</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> on the Season of Docs website.</span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">From April 30, Technical writers can explore the list of participating open source organizations and their project ideas. Technical writers bring their skills in designing and developing documentation to the open source organization. Technical writer applications open on April 30. The list of accepted technical writing projects is announced on July 30. </font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please do tweet and blog about Season of Docs if you’d like to share the news. We want as many people to know about it as possible. We’ve provided logos that you can download and some example content on the </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/press" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">press page</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">We’re looking forward to an exciting pilot of the Season of Docs program!</font></span></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have any questions about the program, please email us at </span><a href="mailto:season-of-docs-support@googlegroups.com" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">season-of-docs-support@googlegroups.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></p><font color="#000000"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Best regards</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:roboto;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">Sarah Maddox, Andrew Chen and the Season of Docs team</font></span></p></div>

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