doubt related to GSoD

[Mohit Shah]

Hello everyone,

As we all know that GSoD student application period has been started from today.

I want to know that can I apply for it even if I have not previously done any technical writer job?

[Aaron Meurer]

The eligibility requirements for the program are at
https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/tech-writer-guide.

For SymPy, we while we would prefer to have people who have some
background in technical writing (either professional or in terms of
education), we are open to accepting anyone if they demonstrate that
they are capable of doing a good job with their project.

Aaron Meurer

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[Mohit Shah]

Thanks for reply,
Actually I don't have any technical writing background. All I have is knowledge in python. I too want to apply, but when I saw that it is necessary to have some experience in it, I became confused whether I can apply or not.
What if simeone wants to pursue carrier as technical writer and he/she sees gsod to be right for the start of carrier?

[Jason Moore]

Mohit,

The purpose of the program is to engage people that are already technical writers with open source projects and bring in non-developers to open source work. So it's not really a good fit for someone that's trying to learn/start technical writing.

Jason

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[S.Y. Lee]

I had some similar doubts for writing tutorials or filling missing gaps of docstrings, which I believe is one of the biggest parts of sympy documentations. 

For example, we have high level documentation ideas in https://github.com/sympy/sympy/wiki/GSoD-2020-Ideas.

But I'm unsure if the authors who writes their own tutorials or books about programming languages are actually technical writers, or programmers themselves.

So what kind of professional setting we should use if we want to write the tutorials.

On Wednesday, June 10, 2020 at 12:14:07 PM UTC+9, Jason Moore wrote:

Mohit,

The purpose of the program is to engage people that are already technical writers with open source projects and bring in non-developers to open source work. So it's not really a good fit for someone that's trying to learn/start technical writing.

Jason

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On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 7:30 PM Mohit Shah <mohitsha...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for reply,
Actually I don't have any technical writing background. All I have is knowledge in python. I too want to apply, but when I saw that it is necessary to have some experience in it, I became confused whether I can apply or not.
What if simeone wants to pursue carrier as technical writer  and he/she sees gsod to be right for the start of carrier?

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