On 3/11/19 5:37 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > This seems like it has potential! > > https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/03/introducing-season-of-docs.html > My personal suggestion is to wait for the program to mature before volunteering Fedora. I am skeptical. My first impression is it is a technical writing certification program from Google, and open source projects act as volunteer certificate proctors. There was a long discussion about this on the Google GSoC mailing list. A key difference of Season of Docs is technical writers are not paid. This excludes a group of people in most need for professional experience and mentorship. It also sends an implied message about the value of technical writing; Season of Docs is the only Google open source program (to my knowledge) without a stipend or compensation of time (GSoC with paid stipend, GCI with sponsored trip to Google HQ). My first impression was not boarding the bandwagon yet and observing how the program matures first. I would like equal treatment for technical writing and development work before endorsing the program. My intention is not to be pessimistic, but I am disappointed this feedback seems unaccounted for in how Season of Docs is currently described and promoted. -- Cheers, Justin W. Flory jflory7@xxxxxxxxx
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