Application submitted.
Regards,
bex
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 12:35 PM Petr Bokoc <pbokoc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4/18/19 4:24 PM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-04-18 at 12:06 +0200, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
>> I am working on the Fedora Docs submission to GSoD right now with
>> Sumantro. Looks like we need to coordinate to not get 52 Fedora
>> submissions.
>>
>> Shaun, are you submitting in Fedora's name?
> Nope. I wouldn't do that without a formal go-ahead from someone like
> you or Petr.
Alright, I'm giving you one :) please edit your application and use
"Fedora Project" as the project name and "http://fedoraproject.org/" as
the project link.
>
>> Petr - pinging you now.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> bex
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:54 AM Petr Bokoc <pbokoc@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm doing this way late late - my bad, I've had a pretty terrible
>>> April
>>> so far with a string of events that made me mostly unavailable. In
>>> retrospect I should have probably said something sooner :/. We have
>>> till
>>> Tuesday 20:00 UTC, and I think we might still be able to pull
>>> something off.
>>>
>>> Shaun, thank you for offering to be a mentor.
>>>
>>> I also contacted the installer team yesterday, asking if anyone
>>> would
>>> like to be a "technical" mentor for the install guide rewrite
>>> proposal.
>>>
>>> Other than mentors, we'll need two "Organization administrators",
>>> people
>>> who would manage the participation of Fedora in GSoD. Do we have
>>> anyone?
>>> Brian, do you think you could do that? And do we know anyone else
>>> who
>>> might be able to/want to step up? I originally thought I'd take one
>>> of
>>> the spots, but I think I'd be of more use as a mentor, and I don't
>>> think
>>> one person can be both.
>>>
>>> By the way, I can't find this anywhere in the docs: can a single
>>> mentor
>>> offer to mentor multiple projects?
>>>
>>> Regarding projects, if we can have the same person (i.e. me) offer
>>> to
>>> mentor multiple projects, then I'd propose the following:
>>>
>>> * Refactor or enhance the Fedora Installation Guide by creating
>>> separately published documents for each Fedora variant
>>> (Workstation/Server/Cloud), taking advantage of Antora
>>>
>>> * Update and enhance current contributor documentation, including
>>> developing ASCIIDoc markup guidelines and providing a set of
>>> ASCIIDoc
>>> snippets for common text editors (Atom, Vim, Emacs, Gedit)
>>>
>>> * Create a documentation set aimed at users completely new to Linux
>>> and
>>> Fedora in particular, focusing on describing alternatives to
>>> software
>>> commonly used on other operating systems (such as web browsers,
>>> productivity suites, video/music players, image/video editing
>>> software…), and concepts such as package management and updates
>>>
>>> Personally I could mentor any of those, or even offer to mentor all
>>> of
>>> them if that's allowed.
>>>
>>> If we manage to agree on something, I can work on making a docs
>>> page for
>>> GSoD over the weekend, I got the flu so I'm not going anywhere
>>> anyway.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Petr
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/4/19 6:26 PM, Brian (bex) Exelbierd wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 5:48 PM Shaun McCance <shaunm@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> I'd like to re-open the conversation about Season of Docs.
>>>>> Here's the
>>>>> previous thread, for reference:
>>>> We forgot to write on that thread, but it was in irc (terrible
>>>> comms
>>>> hygiene - sorry) that Fedora is working on the application for
>>>> Season
>>>> of Docs.
>>>>
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/docs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/EPO4ATPUOCUL4NLOWD33KXXQS5HOIV2N/
>>>>> I'm willing to invest some time into coordinating Fedora's
>>>>> involvement,
>>>>> whether that's as an actual admin, or just helping the admins
>>>>> here and
>>>>> there. Here are a few ideas for possible projects:
>>>>>
>>>>> * Quick start guides for the different spins
>>>>>
>>>>> * Contributor guide
>>>>>
>>>>> * Security guide
>>>>>
>>>>> * Guides geared toward specific types of server deployments,
>>>>> such as
>>>>> storage, virtualization, container platform, etc
>>>>>
>>>>> * Guide geared toward developers using Fedora as their
>>>>> development
>>>>> platform, as a developer workstation, as a testing/CI platform,
>>>>> and as
>>>>> a deployment platform
>>>>>
>>>>> Each individual project must have two mentors, which is
>>>>> different from
>>>>> how GSoC has run. (Maybe they'll change GSoC too.) But, mentors
>>>>> don't
>>>>> always need to be people who hang out on this list. We should
>>>>> look for
>>>>> people working on those areas to help mentor. Find a developer
>>>>> working
>>>>> on Fedora security to help mentor a security guide, for
>>>>> example.
>>>> It'd be great to see people step up the plate on these ideas. It
>>>> seems like with Shaun, we need just one more person to get at
>>>> least
>>>> one idea on the table.
>>>>
>>>> regards,
>>>>
>>>> bex
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