<div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Hello everyone!</font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I am Mukulika Pahari, a Computer Engineering student from India. I wanted to implement the following ideas for Google Summer of Docs 2021 if given the opportunity. I have referred to both- the <a href="https://github.com/numpy/numpy/wiki/Google-Season-of-Docs-2021-Project-Ideas#project-idea-high-level-restructuring-and-end-user-focus">GSoD proposal</a> and the <a href="https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0044-restructuring-numpy-docs.html">NEP 44</a> proposal. Please give me feedback about the ideas!</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-9959f17e-7fff-76ae-3a9a-538ae405f1cd"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reorganising contents of the documentation into Reference Guide, How-Tos, Tutorials and Explanations as per structure proposed in </span><a href="https://numpy.org/neps/nep-0044-restructuring-numpy-docs.html" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NEP 44</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p></li></ol><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Auditing existing documentation</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Clearing misplaced content for example Explanations in Reference Guide, How-Tos in Explanations etc.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Establishing distinct Reference, How-Tos, Tutorials and Explanations sections with crosslinking where required</span></p></li></ul><ol style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px" start="2"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Reorganising landing page of </span><a href="https://numpy.org/devdocs/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NumPy docs</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p></li></ol><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Moving the documentation structure to the left sidebar</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:tra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type:disc;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;margin-left:36pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Removing duplication to improve searchability</span></p></li></ul></font></span></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">I have proposed this work keeping in mind 30ish weeks of work including a few weeks for becoming familiar with the organisation and ironing out details like exactly which tutorials and how-tos to write. Please let me know if I can aim to achieve more in the timeframe.</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">My experience with NumPy is currently limited to one data analysis project but I would love to learn more about its applications while restructuring and developing its docs!</font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Thank you for your time.</font></div></div>