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ANNOUNCEMENT: The R Project is an accepted organization for GSoD 2022. We have selected the writers for our project. For future years, we encourage people interested to work with us to keep an eye on our GitHub organization and participate during the exploration/application phase.
Welcome to the GSoD 2022 wiki, which will be the central hub of information about the R Project participation in the Google Season of Docs (GSoD) 2022.
Administrators are Heather Turner <heather.turner@r-project.org>, Matt Bannert <bannert@kof.ethz.ch>.
Learn more about the R Project for Statistical Computing.
Important resources for participants include:
People interested in participating as technical writers or volunteers are encouraged to join the R-Devel Slack, where more free-flowing discussion of GSoD can take place on the #core-documentation channel and group DMs can be used to co-ordinate work.
In short, one or more selected technical writers will get paid to work on an R-related documentation project part-time (5-30 hours/week) during the season (mid-May to mid-November). The project will probably be organized in a similar way to last year, see the GSoD 2021 Proposal for details.
- Only one project can be funded.
- The program is not a mentorship program. Technical writers should have professional technical writing skills or equivalent relevant experience.
- R community members propose project ideas via issues on this repository.
- R community members/interested technical writers comment on issues.
- Technical writers submit a statement of interest in a proposal to the R GSoD admins (see emails at the top of this page).
- The admins will oversee the selection of the most promising project idea (if more than one idea is proposed) and assist with creating a full proposal and budget to submit to Google.
- Technical writers may still submit a statement of interest during this time and are encouraged to help prepare the proposal.
- If the application is successful one or more technical writers are selected based on the statements of interest.
- The technical writer(s) work during the season on a freelance basis, paid by project milestones.
- The project is written up in a case study.
See: issues
Selected events from the official timeline
| When | What |
|---|---|
| Feb 3 | Season of Docs program announced |
| ** Exploration phase ** | |
| Feb 23 | Organizations can begin submitting applications to Google |
| ** Application phase ** | |
| Mar 25 | Organization application deadline |
| Apr 14 | Accepted organizations announced, technical writer selection begins |
| May 16 | Technical writer hiring deadline, doc development begins |
| ** Project phase ** | |
| Organization administrators begin to submit monthly evaluations | |
| Organization administrators submit their case study and final project evaluation |