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

[Charles R Harris]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 8:14 PM Anne Bonner <anne at contentsimplicity.com>
wrote:

> Thank you so much!!!
>
> I'm so excited to be a part of what you guys have created and built!
>
> All the best,
> Anne
>
> On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 6:39 PM Andrew Nelson <andyfaff at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
>>
Welcome aboard.

Chuck

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