+1 from me as well, and I'll be at ApacheCon NA to help out. Are there steps to take now, like asking in the projects to see which of your ideas fits best? I would guess the BoF+hackathon between all the projects from GSoD would be cool. Worst case, you have too many people writing docs in a room...
On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 1:40 PM Aizhamal Nurmamat kyzy <aizha...@google.com.invalid> wrote: > 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 > > > > >
