Update on Google Season of Docs

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May 1, 2025, 1:02:28 PMMay 1

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Today, the Google Open Source Programs Office announces the conclusion of Google Season of Docs.

Over the past six years, the Google Season of Docs program provided opportunities for open source projects and technical writers to work together to expand our knowledge of best practices in open source documentation.

The 84 Google Season of Docs case studies (and the final project reports from the 2019-2020 seasons) will continue to be accessible on the program website. Additional materials, including a documentation maturity audit tool and guidance for working with technical writers, are available in the Open Docs Repo on GitHub.

We're also excited to release two new resources based on analysis of the Google Season of Docs case studies: a set of new documentation project archetypes to help open source maintainers identify and scope typical projects and (coming soon) a guide to running documentation projects for open source maintainers. More information will be announced via the Google Open Source Blog.

Thank you for six wonderful years of working together to improve open source documentation. We look forward to continuing to support documentation in open source through sponsorships (come say hi at the Write the Docs conference next week in Portland or in the writethedocs.org Slack #opensource channel!) and workshops.