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Season of Docs Application 2020
Welcome to the 2020 Season of Docs!
The goals of Season of Docs are to give technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in contributing to open source projects, and to give open source projects an opportunity to engage the technical writing community.
If you are interested in having your open source organization participate in Season of Docs, first familiarize yourself with the organization administrator guide at https://goo.gl/Q4FJzP and the organization administrator and mentor responsibilities at https://goo.gl/si1rMc.
Next, fill out this application for your open source organization to participate in the 2020 Season of Docs program. For guidance on filling out this form, see https://goo.gl/YQN2vs.
You can continue updating the information on this form until the end of the application deadline.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: May 4, 2020 at 20:00 UTC
For more information on Season of Docs program dates and deadlines, see the official timeline at https://goo.gl/Ch6WST.
The email address entered on this page in this form is not displayed on the Season of Docs website. It is used by the Season of Docs program administrators to communicate with you if there are any issues with the form entry.
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The information in this section enables the program administrators to properly identify your open source organization.
This email address is used for contacting your open source organization about Season of Docs and is published on the Season of Docs website. It is used by the Google program administrators and technical writer participants to contact your organization. You are strongly advised not to use a personal email address as the email address for contacting your open source organization.
Enter the name of the open source project that is participating in the Season of Docs.
TheGoodDocsProject
Enter the URL of your open source website or repository.
This description is published on the Season of Docs website. We are creating “best practice templates and writing instructions for documenting open source software”.
Our project is a spin-off from a Season of Docs project in 2019. We were looking for best practice writing templates and were surprised when we couldn't find an authoritative source. We have put out a first alpha version of templates, which we consider a starting point - a straw man, which we know can be improved.
If your organization has a web page or blog post dedicated to Season of Docs, enter the URL here. You can supply this link later too.
https://github.com/thegooddocsproject/templates/wiki/Season-of-Docs-Ideas-2020
Indicate whether your organization wants to receive a mentor stipend for this year’s program. For more information, see stipends for mentor organizations at https://goo.gl/34Q8WK.
Yes
You must have at least two organization administrators to manage your organization's participation in Season of Docs. For more information about the organization application phase, see https://goo.gl/TFtVfk.
The primary organization administrator is responsible for communicating with Season of Docs program administrators and managing tasks for their organization related to the Season of Docs program.
This name is used in communications between the Season of Docs program administrators and the primary organization administrator. It is not published on the Season of Docs website.
Cameron Shorter
This name is displayed publicly on the Season of Docs website. You are strongly advised not to use your real name as your display name. You may use your GitHub, Twitter, or community handle as your display name.
Cameron Shorter
This email is not displayed on the Season of Docs website. It is used to communicate with you and to share program resources on the website.
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If you are participating as a mentor, you must agree to the terms of the mentor participant agreement at https://goo.gl/Ej3rSZ.
Yes. I agree to this Participant Agreement.
The alternative organization administrator is the secondary contact if the primary organization administrator is unavailable.
DIRECT THE ALTERNATIVE ADMINISTRATOR TO REGISTER AT https://bit.ly/gsod-altadmin-reg.
This name is used in communications between the Season of Docs program administrators and the alternative organization administrator. It is not published on the Season of Docs website.
Jared Morgan
This email is not displayed on the Season of Docs website. It is used to program communications and to share program resources on the website.
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This section provides the Season of Docs program administrators with information on your open source organization's previous experience with mentorship and working with documentation or technical writers. What previous experience has your organization had in documentation or collaborating with technical writers?
If you or any of your mentors have worked with technical writers before, or have developed documentation, mention this in your answer. Describe the documentation that you produced and the ways in which you worked with the technical writer. For example, describe any review processes that you used, or how the technical writer's skills were useful to your project. Explain how this previous experience may help you to work with a technical writer in Season of Docs.
As a project who's key focus is creating writing templates for open source, we have oodles of tech writing interest and experience. Many of us are professional technical writers by day. We have mentors and a participant from Season of Docs 2019. Others are open source community members who care a lot about documentation.
If you or any of your mentors have taken part in Google Summer of Code or a similar program that mentors individuals, mention this in your answer. Describe your achievements in that program. Explain how this experience may influence the way you work in Season of Docs.
We have members who have mentored others in Google Season of Docs and Google Summer of Code (through our participation with the OSGeo Foundation).
Your organization must have at least two open source mentors for each technical writing project/technical writer that you plan to accept for this year's Season of Docs. You need the mentors to help during the technical writer exploration and application phases, as well as during doc development.
Season of Docs 2020 plans to allocate one or two technical writers per organization. Your request for one or two technical writers won't affect whether we choose your organization, but we need to know how many technical writers your organization wants to mentor so that we can accept the correct number of organizations to fill all the available technical writing slots.
Mentors who are not also organization administrators must register independently.
DIRECT THE MENTORS TO REGISTER AT https://bit.ly/gsod-mentor-reg.
How many technical writers does your organization want to mentor this year? *
1
Work with your mentors to create a project ideas list. This list should include one or more documentation projects that you'd like a technical writer to tackle during this year's Season of Docs. You should publish your project ideas on a public web page, in a blog post, or in some other publicly visible document and include a link to the document in this section.
See the detailed guidelines on creating your project ideas list at https://goo.gl/cF7zRt.
Enter the URL of a publicly accessible list of your organization's project ideas.
https://github.com/thegooddocsproject/templates/wiki/Season-of-Docs-Ideas-2020
By clicking on the "Submit" button, you agree to the terms of the program rules at https://goo.gl/Kxih1D and the organization participation agreement at https://goo.gl/STPDs6, shown on the Season of Docs website.
Acceptance of terms *
I agree to the Organization Agreement.