[SciPy-Dev] Season of Docs - welcome Anne, Maja, Brandon

[Spiros Denaxas]

Hello - I would also be happy to help.

best
Spiros

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 1:21 PM Bennet Fauber <bennet at umich.edu> wrote:

> I can offer some time for alpha or beta reading and proofreading.
>
> I have experience as a proofreader, copy editor (American Statistical
> Association), and mathematical typesetter (Wiley, Academic Press,
> Addison-Wesley, et al.).  I've taught statistical software workshops,
> (very) introductory python, have a Software Carpentry instructor
> certificate, and work daily with people who are finding themselves
> needing technical and scientific computing but who don't have strong
> backgrounds.  Hopefully that would be good context for early review of
> a couple of the projects.
>
> I will add my name to the poll, if that's OK?
>
> -- bennet
>
> On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 9:03 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 4:46 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> Google has announced the Season of Docs participants for this year [1].
> We had a lot of excellent candidates and had to make some hard choices. We
> applied for extra slots, but unfortunately didn't win the lottery for
> those; we got one slot for NumPy and one for SciPy. We chose the projects
> of Anne for NumPy and Maja for SciPy:
> >>
> >> Anne Bonner, "Making "The Basics" a Little More Basic: Improving the
> Introductory NumPy Sections" [2]
> >>
> >> Maja Gwozdz, "User-oriented documentation and thorough restructuring"
> [3]
> >>
> >> That's not all though. There was some space left in the budget of the
> NumPy BIDS grant, and Stéfan has reserved that so we can accept more
> writers and provide them the same mentoring and funding as they would have
> gotten through GSoD. We could only start the conversations about that once
> Google made its decisions, so a further announcement will follow. However,
> we already have one extra project confirmed, from Brandon:
> >>
> >> Brandon David, "Improve the documentation of scipy.stats" (project
> details to be published).
> >
> >
> > Happy to announce that we have a fourth participant:
> >
> > Shekhar Rajak, "numpy.org redesign and high level documentation
> restructuring for end user focus"
> >
> > Welcome Shekhar!
> >
> >> I will send out a poll to find a good time for everyone for a kickoff
> call. Our intent is to build a documentation team with multiple writers and
> mentors interacting and able to help each other out. And all of this will
> also interact with the numpy.org website redesign and the people putting
> energy into that:)
> >
> >
> > Here is the poll link: https://doodle.com/poll/skgbk74gsg8zpziu. I hope
> we can find a time that works for everyone - we're split over all US
> timezones, Europe and India. So it's going to be early morning or late
> evening somewhere.
> >
> > Sending this out in public, so anyone who wants to participate is
> welcome to join. I've Bcc'd all participants and mentors, to make sure they
> see this.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Ralf
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I'm very happy to welcome Anne, Maja and Brandon!
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Ralf
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/
> >> [2]
> https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/project-numpy
> >> [3]
> https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/project-scipy
> >
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