Google Season of Docs: Overview

Welcome to the Boost C++ Libraries' home page for Google Season of Docs (GSoD). This page provides general information relating to projects, proposal submission templates, advice on writing good proposals, and links to information on getting started documenting with Boost.

What library owners and potential mentors should do now

1. Read more about the GSoD program.

2. Write project proposals in our proposals page for 2019.

3. Contact org-admins in the dev-list to propose as mentors.

What technical writers should do now

1. Read more about GSoD program.

2. If you wish to proceed, you need to join the Boost Developer's mailing list and find two mentors who will be an experienced Boost developer in one of the Boost libraries listed at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/. Read the Boost Discussion Policy in full, and once read in full go to http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost and subscribe.

3. After as an absolute minimum reading all posts tagged [gsod19], documenters should write a well researched and intelligent message with [gsod19] at the front of the subject line to that developer's mailing list seeking a mentor, and be as flexible as possible in finding a topic that both they and the mentor is interested in upon which to base a GSoD project proposal text to be submitted to Google. The list of projects is not limited to those proposed in our proposals page for 2019. We are very open to better ideas.