| Program announcement | January 18, 2023 Season of Docs program announced |
| Organization applications | February 15, 2023 at 18:00 UTC Organizations can begin submitting applications to Google |
| March 24, 2023 at 18:00 UTC Deadline for organization applications | |
| March 24 - March 30, 2023 Google program administrators review organization applications | |
| Organizations announced | March 31, 2023 at 18:00 UTC Google publishes the list of accepted organizations |
| Doc development | March 31, 2023 Doc development can officially begin |
| Technical writer hiring | May 10, 2023 Technical writer hiring deadline |
| Technical Writing | March 31, 2023 - November 13, 2023 Hired technical writers work on documentation projects with guidance from organizations |
| Monthly Evaluations | Organization administrators begin to submit monthly evaluations to report on the status of their project |
| Final project evaluation and case study | November 6 - November 21, 2023 at 18:00 UTC Organization administrators submit their case study and final project evaluation |
| Results announced | December 5, 2023 Google publishes the 2021 Season of Docs case studies and aggregate project data |
| Followup surveys | May 1, 2024 Organizations begin to participate in post-program followup surveys |
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Mifos is applying for participation in Season of Docs once again. Check back in on March 31, 2023 to see if we have been accepted. |
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Building from the API
Using Custom Modules
For Season of Docs, where I think we could use a technical writer is to help with more of our documentation around developer experience - getting environment setup, installation guides, deployability and DevOps tools, what SDKs we have and how to interact, how to use the API, custom modules, contribution process, coding standards, upstream development, etc.So moreso helping to onboard new contributors/developers - could be volunteers, could be staff, could be partners, could be fintechs implementing.I This topic area could be one in which the technical writer might not need the domain knowledge but they would require the DevOps/dev knowledge.
contributing to the project, required The focus of our documentation leveraging this existing documentation as foundational componen This project will build off of the 2021 Season of Docs project which consolidated our documentation into one unified portal with separate spaces for developer and user documentation.
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| Item | Amount (USD) | Running Total (USD) | Notes/Justification |
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| Technical Writer | $12,000 | $12,000 | |
| Graphic design - architecture flow diagrams, flow diagrams charts and visuals to accompany documentation | $750 | $12,750 | |
| Project Management, Supervision, and Review of Deliverables | $1,500 | $14,250 | To cover partial cost of scoping out project, managing its delivery and final review of deliverables. |
| Volunteer Stipends (2 at $300 each) | $600 | $14,850 | For volunteers that will be closely providing information and/or reviewing deliverables |
| T-Shirts/SWAG for Volunteers | $150 | $15,000 | Printing of t-shirts or stickers for documentation volunteers |
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The Mifos Initiative has a long track record in participating in programs like Google Summer of Code and Google Code-In.
We participated in the 2021 Season of Docs . The final case study can be viewed here:in 2021 and 2022. Please view the final case studiess for each of those years below:
- 2022 Season of Docs Case Study - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hEa62FTIL7HB-pfAfOa1vuDfsD9OxHSgl7a-GdREiK4/edit
- 2021 Season of Docs Case Study - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sPCefxjx8aPAOhq3UKyJ9t5LPu71rJ9eSqY6qndi3qY/edit
We will be participating in Google Summer of Code for the 10th 11th year in 20222023. In 20202022, we graduating 17 interns in the last GSOC program we participated ingraduated nine interns successfully through GSOC. These open source programs represent a critical growth engine for our community as described in our Endless Summer of Code video:
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