Hi everybody,
we just had our project leadership meeting and I brought up the Google Season of Docs[0] programme which is similar to Summer of Code but for documentation.
(Note to meeting attendants: I mentioned that the application deadline for projects has already passed, but I was wrong about that. According to the timeline[1] we have until May 4 to decide.)
The programme's goal is to connect Open Source projects (like coreboot) with technical writers and if there's one thing coreboot can benefit from, I'd say it's having somebody who knows what they're doing write documentation for the project.
There was some interest in having coreboot take part there, but it requires at least two project admins (people willing to coordinate) and also mentors for the tech writers (if there's interest on their side to work with coreboot), which may or may not overlap with the project admins.
I'm not sure I can do a good job managing both Summer of Code and Season of Docs (which overlap timewise), but there was nobody else able to step up.
So: What's the interest for this in the wider community and do we have people who could imagine organizing our participation there?
The first step would be to dig into their application procedure, and I guess I could help a bit there (if it's at all similar to Summer of Code's). If they don't take us, we'd drop out early May, otherwise admin work seems to require some attention until December.
Regards, Patrick
[0] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs [1] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline