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

[Ralf Gommers]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 5:33 AM Spiros Denaxas <s.denaxas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello - I would also be happy to help.
>

Thanks Spiros! All help is very welcome:)

Cheers,
Ralf


> 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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