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Welcome to the Wiki for the Ruby Google Season of Docs project!

Most of the time our projects lack documentation in some places or the existing ones are outdated. This often becomes the stumbling block for newcomers as they are stuck or held back in time with old/no documentation. Due to outdated/lack of documentation, even experienced developers have to re-learn by experimenting as human memory is of transient nature.

Google Season of Docs provides support for open source projects to improve their documentation and gives professional technical writers an opportunity to gain experience in open source.

How does GSoD work?

Google Season of Docs allows open source organizations to apply for a grant based on their documentation needs. If selected, the open source organizations use their grant to directly hire a technical writer to complete their documentation project. Organizations have up to six months to complete their documentation project.

For more information check out:

• Ideas List (2023): A list of potential GSoD projects for various Ruby applications and libraries

General timeline

• February 15 - March 24 : Open source organizations apply to take part in Google Season of Docs
• March 31 : Google publishes the list of accepted organizations, along with their project proposals and doc development can begin.
• May 10 : Technical writer hiring deadline
• June 14 : Organization administrators begin to submit monthly evaluations to report on the status of their project.
• November 6 - 21 : Organization administrators submit their case study and final project evaluation.
• December 5 : Google publishes the 2023 case studies and aggregate project data.
• May 1, 2024 : Organizations begin to participate in post-program followup surveys.

You can find the timeline for GSoD 2023 here https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline