Google Season of Docs

[Patrick Georgi]

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