<div dir="ltr">OSGeo education folks,<div>I'm aware that many of you have expertise which crosses across education, writing and geospatial software. I'd be interested to hear who might be interested in bringing that expertise into an OSGeo "Season of Docs" initiative, as per below? (I'm personally keen to get involved).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Cameron Shorter</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 12:36<br>Subject: Fwd: Announcement and thanks to Season of Docs survey respondents: Season of Docs has launched<br>To: OSGeo Discussions <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">As per below, Google has just launched a Season of Docs program, designed to bring open source and technical writer communities together, to the benefit of both. Awesome! I reckon our OSGeo projects should get involved, and I'm personally keen to be part of it. Anyone else want to join me?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Sarah Maddox</strong> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sarahmaddox@google.com" target="_blank">sarahmaddox@google.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 08:56<br>Subject: Announcement and thanks to Season of Docs survey respondents: Season of Docs has launched<br>To: <br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(103,78,167)"><span id="m_8489656842322092836gmail-m_3865696813479436002gmail-docs-internal-guid-87885554-7fff-e45c-f9f2-d2de97cbbf94"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for your feedback on the initial proposal of Google’s Season of Docs program! You’re receiving this email because you indicated that you’d like us to send you updates about the program.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’re delighted to announce that we’ve launched the 2019 pilot of Season of Docs. Details are on our website: </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">g.co/seasonofdocs</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Season of Docs is a Google program that fosters collaboration between open source projects and technical writers. It’s similar to Summer of Code, but with a focus on documentation and technical writers. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Would you like to take part as a mentor in the inaugural year of Season of Docs? Organization applications open on April 2, 2019. See the full </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">timeline</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and join the announcement group at </span><a href="https://groups.google.com/group/season-of-docs-announce" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">season-of-docs-announce</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to stay informed.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please do tweet and blog about Season of Docs if you’d like to share the news. We want as many people to know about it as possible. We’ve provided logos that you can download and some example content on the </span><a href="https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/press" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">press page</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you have any questions, please email </span><a href="mailto:season-of-docs-support@googlegroups.com" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">season-of-docs-support@googlegroups.com</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Many thanks again for your valuable feedback on the initial proposal.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Roboto;color:rgb(102,102,102);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sarah Maddox, Andrew Chen, and the Season of Docs team</span></p></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="m_8489656842322092836gmail-m_3865696813479436002gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div>
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