From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu (scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu [129.13.231.82]) by fantadrom.bsd.lv (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 9874e915 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:01:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from asta-nat.asta.uni-karlsruhe.de ([172.22.63.82] helo=hekate.usta.de) by scc-mailout-kit-02.scc.kit.edu with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (envelope-from ) id 1hGY1P-0003PR-DA; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 02:01:52 +0200 Received: from donnerwolke.usta.de ([172.24.96.3]) by hekate.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1hGY1O-0002j7-At; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 02:01:50 +0200 Received: from athene.usta.de ([172.24.96.10]) by donnerwolke.usta.de with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hGY1O-00049z-25; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 02:01:50 +0200 Received: from localhost (athene.usta.de [local]) by athene.usta.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPA id 1ceef8f5; Wed, 17 Apr 2019 02:01:50 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 02:01:50 +0200 From: Ingo Schwarze To: Stephen Gregoratto Cc: discuss@mandoc.bsd.lv Subject: Re: Google Season of Docs Message-ID: <20190417000150.GF88430@athene.usta.de> References: <20190416233120.xpejittxfbt743o7@BlackBox> X-Mailinglist: mandoc-discuss Reply-To: discuss@mandoc.bsd.lv MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190416233120.xpejittxfbt743o7@BlackBox> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) Hi Stephen, Stephen Gregoratto wrote on Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 09:31:20AM +1000: > Much like the Summer of Code, If i remember correctly, OpenBSD participated one time in the GSoC - and rued it. The administrative overhead vastly exceeded the benefit. > Google is now sponsoring a Season of > Docs[1] to improve Open Source documentation. There's still time for > organisations to submit applications for entry (until April 23 20:00 > UTC). > > The application details for projects are available here[2], but the gist > is as follows: > - Get at least two "administrators" to oversee your projects That's far beyond the means of the mandoc project. I think it would even exceed the capacity of the OpenBSD project. > - Create a list of writing projects and then assign at least two > mentors for each of them. There's a couple of project ideas that > Google suggest here[3], but I'm sure you have your own. > - When you have finalised your list, publish them online. > - Submit your application and sign up your admins, mentors before the > 23rd. > > After this, technical writers apply and get in contact with orgs. > There's too much info here for me to summarise, so I'll just link the > timeline[4]. Note that the actual writing period is Sep 2-Nov 22. > > Since I'm singing up Singing up? Do you mean "signing up"? But even then, i'm not sure i understand. How can you sign up? Individuals can only start signing up after April 30 if i understand the timeline correctly. > I thought I'd let you'd know, seems like something > you might be interested in. Thanks for the pointer, i hadn't heard about it before. Sure, it no doubt feels even less valuable than GSoC itself for reaping any actual benefit - but all the same, hearing about what kind of bureaucracy large corporations are erecting in the vicinity of our project is no doubt interesting and entertaining. :-) Yours, Ingo -- To unsubscribe send an email to discuss+unsubscribe@mandoc.bsd.lv