google season of docs Archives

Google has announced the first Google Season of Docs (GSDocs), the technical writer equivalent to Google Summer of Code (GSoC).

MariaDB has participated in GSoC every year since 2013. That year saw successful projects to implement Roles and enhanced Perl Compatible Regular Expressions in MariaDB 10.0, and there have been numerous successful contributions since then. One of the students involved at the start, Vicențiu Ciorbaru, now works for the MariaDB Foundation, has been involved in administrating and mentoring GSoC ever since, and is also my co-administrator as we apply for Google Season of Docs.

This is the first year for GSDocs, and the intent is to “bring open source and technical writer communities together, to the benefit of both, raising the awareness of open source, of docs, and of technical writing”. …

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