Season of Docs

Successful technical writing projects

Congratulations to the following technical writers and open source organizations on successfully completing their Season of Docs projects!

This page shows the results for standard-length projects that finished by December 6, 2019. Long-running projects are still in progress, and their results will be available on March 6, 2020. See the Season of Docs timeline.

Open source organization	Technical writer	Mentor	Final project report	Original project proposal
AboutCode	ayansinha	DennisClark	Reference for Command Line Options in scancode-toolkit and Reorganize the structure of AboutCode documentation at aboutcode.readthedocs.io	Reference for Command Line Options in scancode-toolkit and Reorganize the structure of AboutCode documentation at aboutcode.readthedocs.io
Apache Airflow	kartik khare	ashb	How to create workflow	How to create a workflow
Apache Airflow	lavel	potiuk	Apache Airflow: Documenting using local development environments	Documenting using local development environments
Arduino	AghaSaad04	dcuartielles and Per	Document third-party libraries	Document third-party libraries
BRL-CAD	sahibkaur	Sean	A Beginner’s Guide to BRL-CAD	A Beginner's Guide To BRL-CAD
DVC.org	dashohoxha	@shcheklein	GSoD2019 Project Report	Improving and expanding the docs of DVC.org
Ensembl	laurelm	astridgall and bethflint	Google Season of Docs 2019	REST API documentation
GDevelop	End3r	4ian	GDEVELOP GAME TUTORIAL FOR SEASON OF DOCS	New tutorial: building hyper-casual mobile game
GenPipes	shaloo	Jose	GenPipes RTD Documentation	Set up GenPipes docs at 'Read The Docs'
GNU Mailman	ariessa	yaseppochi	Summary of My Google Season Of Docs Journey	Instructions for Migrating from Mailman 2 to Mailman 3
HPX	rstobaugh	msimberg and @parsa	GSoD Final Report	Edit & Streamline Existing HPX Documentation
INCF (International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility)	Casper.dcl	Bradly Alicea and Chee Wai Lee	GSoD 2019 Wrap-up	OpenWorm
INCF (International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility)	pickledstitches	Christine Rogers	Hello! Google Season of Docs 2019	Simplifying LORIS
LibreOffice	quaffeine	ohallot	LibreOffice Online Guide, The Document Foundation	LibreOffice Online Guide: a guide similar to those used for other LO applications, to include not only usage but also installation and administration.
LLVM Compiler Infrastructure	DR87	tonic	2019 Google Season of Docs Project Report	Restructure LLVM documentation index and documentation style guide
National Resource for Network Biology (NRNB)	kozo2	AlexanderPico	Replacing GUI control tutorials to Jupyter Notebook and R Markdown	Replacing GUI control tutorials to Jupyter Notebook and R Markdown
NumPy	bonn0062	Ralf Gommers	The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to NumPy	Making "The Basics" a Little More Basic: Improving the Introductory NumPy Sections
Open Collective	Anna e só	alannallama and JaskiratOC	How did Open Collective's docs change in three months?	Improve general help documentation
Open Source Geospatial Foundation	flicstar	Cameron Shorter	Project Report for Season of Docs 2019	Review OSGeoLive Quickstarts
Open3D	Rohan Rathi	yxlao	Google Season of Docs at Open3D	Technical Documentation of Python & C++ API
OpenELIS Global	Areesha	Casey Iiams-Hauser	OpenELIS documentation for end users	OpenELIS documentation for end users
OpenMRS.org	Ayeshmantha	Burke (OpenMRS)	GSoD-19 @ OpenMRS	Developing User Friendly Github Documentation for REST API
OpenMRS.org	batbrain7	Burke (OpenMRS)	Google Season of Docs at OpenMRS	OpenMRS REST API documentation
OpenMRS.org	marslan8530	Jennifer	OpenMRS Write Code, Save lives!	Review and Refactor existing Wiki to be more User profile driven
OpenSCAD	Themistoklis Spanoudis	t-paul	Google Season of Docs 2019 \| OpenSCAD	Create an OpenSCAD Tutorial
Oppia	atavar02	DubeySandeep	Beginners’ guide to creating lessons and associated material on Oppia	Beginners’ guide to creating lessons and associated material on Oppia
OWASP Foundation	sshniro	Simon Bennetts	OWASP ZAP \| API Documentation	Enhancement of the ZAP API Documentation
PostgreSQL	lu	Stephen Frost	Introductory Tutorial for PostgreSQL	Introductory Tutorial
Qubes OS	luzeal	Marek	Qubes OS – Google Season of Docs project report	Onboard with QubesOS ! Let's write an open and easy-to-use guide
RoboComp	Le Thai An	orensbruli	RoboComp’s basic components	RoboComp’s basic components
Rocket.Chat	Mister Gold	gsod-admin	Report for the Bot Docs project	The Bot Docs
SciPy	mkg33	Ralf Gommers	User-oriented documentation and thorough restructuring	User-oriented documentation and thorough restructuring
SymPy	lglattly	asmeurer and moorepants	SymPy Documentation Style Guide	Consistency across docstrings
The Wikimedia Foundation	Pavithra Eswaramoorthy	Grammarbot	Season of Docs - Project report	Improving documentation for Wikimedia’s technical documentarians and videographers
VideoLAN	Edidiong Anny Asikpo	jbkempf	Modernize (rewrite) the VLC user documentation	Modernize (rewrite) the VLC user documentation
Zulip Open Source Team Chat	drrosa	Tim Abbott	Zulip-GSoD 2019 Project Report	Refactoring of ReadTheDocs and API Docs

To find out which phase of the program the participants are working on, see the Season of Docs timeline.
To see the details of the participating open source organizations and projects, open the list of participants.
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