<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 4:51 PM Andrea Buntz Neiman <<a href="mailto:abneiman@equinoxoli.org">abneiman@equinoxoli.org</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Maintaining docs for a project as large as Evergreen is a constant and ongoing process - we can always use more help over in docs!</div><div><br></div><div>Please see the Documentation interest group page here for needs & meeting info:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:dig" target="_blank">https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=evergreen-docs:dig</a></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks Andrea.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">However, to be honest, I am not eager to contribute any patches (at least not yet).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">I believe that crowdsourcing docs does not work quite well (does not produce good results).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Time after time you may need some help from an experienced technical writer, to reorganize and restructure the docs.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Google Season of Docs might be an option to get help from such a writer:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"> - <a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs">https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">It is similar to Google Summer of Code, but has some substantial differences.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">One of them is that it expects professional technical writers to do the job (instead of students).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Another one is that, unfortunately, the budget of this program is still very small, and last year for example, very few projects were accepted:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"> - <a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants">https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dashamir</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div></div>