Google has announced a program called Google Season of Docs. I have known about this program since the GSoC Mentor Summit back in October. This is like Google Summer of Code, but focused on technical writing and documentation.
Spend three months working closely with an open source community. Bring your technical writing expertise to the project’s documentation. Learn about open source and new technologies. Add more skills to your resume.
Important dates from the official Program Timeline:
April 2, 2019 at 20:00 UTC - April 23, 2019 at 20:00 UTC: Mentoring Organizations can submit applications
April 30, 2019 at 12:00 UTC: Google publishes the list of accepted mentoring organizations
May 29, 2019 at 18:00 UTC - June 28, 2019 at 18:00 UTC: Technical Writers application period
July 30, 2019 at 18:00 UTC - Google announces the accepted technical writer projects
I will be helping @KoniKodes but this is her show (if she wants it). Only thing i ask is that the same policies of favoring public communication be carried over to this program if we get accepted.
I am looking at a move coming up in the next few weeks. It depends on the direction my husband’s career takes as to whether it is an hour away or back to the islands.
How much time would I need to commit to this? I’m already having to pace myself with the two Outreachy projects…
Well, the next step would be to prepare our application for the program starting April 2nd at 20;00 UTC until April 23 at 20:00 UTC. It doesn’t matter when our application gets in – just that it gets in.
Then if accepted – just field questions from potential technical writers. If you get overwhelmed, that’s why there are backups . These programs more or less run themselves once they get started. You just have to ensure that the mentors and technical writers are on-track and mitigate things that might be going on. If you want – I can allow you to shadow me for GSoC and see how I do it, it’s run very similar.
I didn’t really do much in GSoC 2018 – at least not officially.
I would ideally like a technical writer like yourself and someone who can act as the technical mentor with domain knowledge. That covers the two mentors per project. Ideally it’d be someone from the project we’re writing docs for.
@r0bby
I appreciate the opportunity and kind words, however, my husband has stated his preference that I only work with one mentoring group at a time. He wants me to either be paid for most of my time, or return to my original pursuit of Full Stack Dev cert (Finish my React and D3 projects) so I can make money.
My loyalty does lie with Outreachy, as that internship paid me, has less strict rules for qualifying, and has brought awesome intern mates to work with me for LibreHealth.
I am still attempting to find funding for both of the Outreachy Toolkit and EHR Projects.
@judywawira One of our current Outreachy Toolkit applicants has already begun to explore the Radiology Module and has one approved Merge Request as well as an approved Issue Report for the module. If this is approved, that intern may be the one who will need your guidance on Radiology.
