Hi,
If you think that the GnuPG docs need to be updated or improved, either in form or in content, consider participating to Google Season of Docs: "Season of Docs 2021 will allow open source organizations to apply for a grant, based on their documentation needs. If selected, open source organizations will use their grant to hire a technical writer directly to complete their documentation project. Organizations will have up to six months to complete their documentation project." - https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/organization-application-hints - https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline Technical writers don't have to be students (actually they are not supposed to be students). If the project proposal is accepted, I would be interested to work as a technical writer for this project. I would enjoy improving the docs of GnuPG, and at the same time the stipend would help me to survive. Thanks, Dashamir _______________________________________________ Gnupg-devel mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-devel |
Hi Dashamir,
Am Montag 22 Februar 2021 17:03:40 schrieb Dashamir Hoxha via Gnupg-devel: > If you think that the GnuPG docs need to be updated or improved, > either in form or in content, consider participating to Google Season > of Docs thanks for the suggestion! We do believe that docs should be better, but it is very unlikely that we participate this particular funding program. To explain: The GnuPG development team has a long standing tradition to not advertise for Google by participating in their programs or by using their services. They use some of their "programs" to also gain mindshare and place themselfes in a good light. Aren't there some useful things done by Google for Free Software and cryptography? Yes, there are. This is a very large organisation and there are nice groups and individuals inside it, with some friendly and interesting technical projects. My scepticism is more about the course of the whole company and how its long term business interests and accumulated powers are contrary to a decentral, cooperating vision of information technology in the world. (However this is just stating it superficially, here on this mailinglist is not the right place to discuss in more detail, we'd be getting off-topic. I'm just mentioning it to aid your understanding.) Another difficulty with a project-based approach (that means goals and end and limited resources) is that it is not what the GnuPG ecosystem needs most in terms of improving the user experience. If we can avoid to write documentation, we should. The approach of a minimal documenation (like in the tradition of John M. Caroll) and the concept of self-explorability and don't-make-me-think usability are (in my view) more suited to a modern set of crypto based applications for end to end security. Approaching this would mean long term engagement and funding if it is done by professionals. Best Regards, Bernhard -- www.intevation.de/~bernhard +49 541 33 508 3-3 Intevation GmbH, Osnabrück, DE; Amtsgericht Osnabrück, HRB 18998 Geschäftsführer Frank Koormann, Bernhard Reiter, Dr. Jan-Oliver Wagner _______________________________________________ Gnupg-devel mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-devel |
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