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@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 4:46 PM Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@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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