[Numpy-discussion] GSoD 2021 - Statement of Interest

Mon May 10 08:23:18 EDT 2021

Hello, Mahesh!

We will take your project into consideration and let you know of our
decision shortly.

Cheers!

Melissa

On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 4:19 PM Mahesh S <mahesh6947foss at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there everyone,
>
> I am attaching my in depth proposal for Google Season of Docs 2021 with
> NumPy along with this mail. Kindly share your thoughts on it
>
> Thanks & Regards
> Mahesh S Nair
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 2:06 AM Melissa Mendonça <melissawm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello, Mahesh
>>
>> Yes, the timeline looks fine.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Melissa
>>
>> On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 2:08 PM Mahesh S <mahesh6947foss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello there Melissa,
>>>
>>> Thank You for your valuable suggestion.Actually , I am planning for a
>>> high-impact work. I have already started reading the User-Guide and working
>>> out small projects using NumPy to understand it further, to prepare an
>>> in-depth proposal, which will include changes which I mentioned in my brief
>>> proposal, reorganizing content, addressing issues in the GitHub tracker and
>>> all. One doubt from my side is regarding the timeline. Currently I am
>>> planning to prepare the proposal with the GSoD Timeline that is from June
>>> 16 2021 and ends on November 16th 2021 with four evaluation phases ,
>>> Is there any specific timeline from the community or Am I free to follow
>>> the same?
>>>
>>> And  as of now, I am planning to set an order in which the tasks needed
>>> to be done , which I will share in the first draft of my proposal which I
>>> will submit by this week, later changes can be done as per suggestions from
>>> the mentors and community.
>>>
>>> Thank You
>>> Mahesh
>>>
>>> On Sun, May 2, 2021 at 7:05 PM Melissa Mendonça <melissawm at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello, Mahesh
>>>>
>>>> While you work on this, it may be interesting to keep in mind that we
>>>> are looking for high-impact work that can be done in the timeframe of the
>>>> GSoD program - examples would be reorganizing content in a section of the
>>>> documentation, creating new complete document pages on some subject or
>>>> concept. It may be worth familiarizing yourself with the documentation (I
>>>> won't suggest reading all of it as it's huge!) to get an idea for the
>>>> different sections. One idea would be to focus on the user guide, which
>>>> contains several sub-pages, and check for improvements that can be done
>>>> there.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> Melissa
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 9:28 AM Mahesh S <mahesh6947foss at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> The current documentation of NumPy is really good but a bit more
>>>>> improvement can be made to it, which is the prime objective of my project.
>>>>> The improvements which I mentioned in my brief proposal are strategies that
>>>>> can be applied to every documentation to make it better.
>>>>>
>>>>> Apart from general improvements most the documentation related issues
>>>>> in the NumPy's GitHub issue tracker
>>>>> <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues?page=2&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+doc+label%3A%2204+-+Documentation%22> will
>>>>> be addressed. . Some needs more technical information and help from the
>>>>> community. Some are due to the lack of visual aids. Most of them will be
>>>>> addressed and improvements will be made such that similar issues will not
>>>>> be generated in future.
>>>>> Rearranging of sections in the User Guide
>>>>> <https://numpy.org/devdocs/user/absolute_beginners.html> can be done
>>>>> after further discussions
>>>>>
>>>>> Some examples regarding the need of restructuring and duplication are
>>>>> given in the attached document. Apologies in advance if my observations are
>>>>> inaccurate or nitpicks. The given doc is just a very brief one. An in-depth
>>>>> proposal with all the planned changes along with solutions to close as many
>>>>> issues in the tracker will be prepared. I am getting familiar with the
>>>>> community and NumPy.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 9:54 PM Melissa Mendonça <melissawm at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello, Mahesh
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you for your proposal. One thing I would say is that some of
>>>>>> the things you are suggesting are already there - for example, the How-tos
>>>>>> and Explanations section - but I agree they can be improved!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Another question I could pose is about duplication of content: can
>>>>>> you give examples of duplicated content that you found in the docs?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Melissa
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 12:33 AM Mahesh S <mahesh6947foss at gmail.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am Mahesh from India. I am interested in doing Google Season of
>>>>>>> Docs with NumPy on the project HIGH-LEVEL RESTRUCTURING AND END-USER FOCUS
>>>>>>> - NumPy
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have past experience in documentation writing with WordPress and
>>>>>>> have completed *Google Summer of Code 2018 *with KDE. I have been
>>>>>>> an open source enthusiast and contributor since 2017.My past experience
>>>>>>> with coding ,code documentation , understanding code bases ,will help
>>>>>>> achieve this task without much input from your end. I have about four years
>>>>>>> experience working with Open-Source and currently working as a *Quality
>>>>>>> Assurance specialis*t . I have delivered technical talks at
>>>>>>> international conferences (KDE-Akademy) and was *mentor of Google
>>>>>>> Code-In* also. All these makes me the best candidate for the
>>>>>>> project.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I am attaching a brief proposal for the work along with this mail. A
>>>>>>> more in-depth  A more in depth proposal with timelines , all planned
>>>>>>> strategies , document structures will be submitted after more discussion
>>>>>>> with the mentors and community.
>>>>>>> I am ready to start the work as soon as possible and will be able
>>>>>>> work 7 to 9 hours per day including weekends. I strongly wish to be part of
>>>>>>> the NumPy community even after the project.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hope to hear from you soon
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>>> Mahesh S Nair
>>>>>>>
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