This page contains the details of a technical writing project accepted for Google Season of Docs.
Project summary
- Open source organization:
- INCF (International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility)
- Technical writer:
- Casper.dcl
- Project name:
- OpenWorm
- Project length:
- Standard length (3 months)
Project description
- Improve, refine, and amend up to 8-years-out-of-date documentation
- Create a new version of http://docs.openworm.org, including:
- Wiki
- Refocus around OpenWorm simulation stack (based on existing initial documentation), which has changed and been unified over the years
- Refocus around helping new volunteers run and improve existing code
- Write specs for casual contributions
- Reference special topics
- Papers in an OpenWorm special issue journal
- Educational materials such as OpenWorm badges
- Help refine a Mathematical overview of OpenWorm reference document
- Curate an inventory of projects and docs that align with current org goals
- Reorganise all project docs
- Tightly integrating/merging DevoWorm, NeuroML, Geppetto, and other assorted docs into one location
- Website redesign around finding key information
- People, how to get to Slack, GitHub, Docker, Blender models, etc.
- Help with the educational curriculum
- Docker containers and Jupyter notebooks