I think this is a fantastic idea! I fully support any effort to foster documentation contributions/documentation improvements. Let me know if I can help in any way.
Thanks, Aizhamal *From: *Sharan Foga <sha...@apache.org> *Date: *Fri, May 3, 2019 at 1:30 PM *To: * <dev@community.apache.org> Hi All > > Recently with the Google Season of Docs, quite a few of our projects were > interested in applying to get some help with their documentation, so I’m > thinking, what if we try and add some sort of documentation section to our > ApacheCon hackathons. > > If we have enough people from a project community we could start at a very > basic level e.g writing up some install or very basic getting started docs. > > Another idea is that the projects who weren’t successful in getting a > technical writer with Season of Docs, bring their idea and have a hackathon > or Birds of a Feather session during ApacheCon to plan, prepare or write > something that could help. > > At one of the previous open source summits I attended I saw a > presentation on what they called ‘Book Sprints’ where a group of people got > together for a fixed time period and then wrote the documentation and > pubished it. While we may not have the same time frame, perhaps doing at > least a documentation proof of concept could be interesting for both Las > Vegas and Berlin. > > What do people think? > > Thanks > Sharan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@community.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@community.apache.org > >
