[Numpy-discussion] Season of Docs - welcome Anne, Maja, Brandon

[Andrew Nelson]

Welcome Anne, Maja, Brandon!

On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 09:47, 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).
>
> 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:)
>
> 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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