Season of Docs announces participating organizations for 2022

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. Together we raise awareness of open source, of docs, and of technical writing. 

For 2022, Season of Docs is pleased to announce that 31 organizations will be participating in the program! The list of participating organizations can be viewed on the website.

The project development phase now begins. Organizations and the technical writers they hire will work on their documentation projects from now until November 15th. For organizations who are still looking to hire a technical writer, the hiring deadline is May 16th.

How do I take part in Season of Docs as a technical writer?

Start by reading the technical writer guide and FAQs which give information about eligibility and choosing a project. Next, technical writers interested in working with accepted open source organizations can share their contact information via the Season of Docs GitHub repository; or they may submit a statement of interest directly to the organizations. We recommend technical writers reach out to organizations before submitting a statement of interest to discuss the project they’ll be working on and gain a better understanding of the organization. Technical writers do not need to submit a formal application through Season of Docs, so reach out to the organizations as soon as possible!

Will technical writers be paid while working with organizations accepted into Season of Docs?

Yes. Participating organizations will transfer funds directly to the technical writer via OpenCollective. Technical writers should review the organization's proposed project budgets and discuss their compensation and payment schedule with the organization before hiring. Check out our technical writer payment process guide for more details.

General Timeline

May 16	Technical writer hiring deadline
June 15	Organization administrators start reporting on their project status via monthly evaluations
November 15	Organization administrators submit their case study and final project evaluation
December 14	Google publishes the 2022 Season of Docs case studies and aggregate project data
May 2, 2023	Organizations begin to participate in post-program followup surveys

See the full timeline for details.

Care to join us?

Explore the Season of Docs website at g.co/seasonofdocs to learn more about the program. Use our logo and other promotional resources to spread the word. Review the timeline, check out the FAQ, and reach out to organizations now!

If you have any questions about the program, please email us at season-of-docs@google.com.

By Romina Vicente and Erin McKean, Google Open Source Programs Office

Google Summer of Code 2022: Contributor applications now open

Contributor applications for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2022 are now open!

Google Summer of Code is a global, online program focused on bringing new contributors into open source software development. GSoC contributors work with an open source organization on a 12+ week programming project under the guidance of mentors. 

Since 2005, GSoC has welcomed new developers into the open source community every year. The GSoC program has brought over 18,000 contributors from 112 countries together, with over 17,000 mentors from 746 open source organizations.

For 2022, GSoC made significant changes to expand the reach and flexibility of the program. The following are the key changes:

• All newcomers and beginners to open source 18 years and older may now apply to GSoC

• GSoC now supports both medium sized projects (~175 hours) and large projects (~350 hours)

• Projects can be spread out over 10–22 weeks

We invite students, graduates, and folks at various stages of their career to check out Google Summer of Code. Now that applications are open, please keep a few helpful tips in mind:

• Read the program rules, FAQ, contributor guide, and advice for applying

• Review the list of mentoring organizations and use filters to sort by programming language and categories

• Narrow down your list to 2-4 organizations and review their ideas list

• Reach out to the organizations via their contact methods listed on the GSoC site

• Engage with your organization early and often

Contributors may register and submit project proposals on the GSoC site from now until Tuesday, April 19th at 18:00 UTC.

Best of luck to all our applicants!

Romina Vicente, Program Manager – Google Open Source

The first Peer Bonus Winners of 2022

After receiving over 200 nominations from Googlers, we are very pleased to announce our biggest group of winners to date for the Google Open Source Peer Bonus Program.

We are honored to present 154 contributors from 29 countries with peer bonuses, representing more than 80 open source projects.

The Google Open Source Peer Bonus program was launched in 2011, and over the years became a much loved initiative within open source. Many teams at Google rely on open source projects in their work and are very keen to support contributors who devote their time and energy to these projects. Here are some quotes from our winners about what the program means to them.

“Google's OSS Peer Bonus program recognizes the fantastic work done by people who volunteer their time tirelessly to contribute to open source projects. Society as a large benefits from having a strong community of contributors to open source software. I'm humbled to receive the OSPB award.” – Robert A. van Engelen, ugrep contributor

“It is a very motivating program, rewarding and acknowledging important work [for open source].” - Christoph Gorgulla, VirtualFlow contributor

“Open source is a great chance to work on worldwide use products with other developers. It was a pleasure and, hope I made Firebase a bit better. Thanks a lot!” - Andrey Uryadov, Firebase iOS SDK contributor

“The Angular team is incredibly welcoming and supportive to open source contributors, the support and appreciation they give to any sort of contribution, no matter on size or relevance is really impressive and heartwarming. It is a pleasure and an honor to be able to interact with such wonderful people and of course awe-inspiring software engineers.” - Dario Piotrowicz, Angular contributor

Below is the list of winners who gave us permission to thank them publicly:

Project	Winner
altair	Christopher Davis
altair	Mattijn van Hoek
Android FHIR SDK	Aditya Kurkure
Android FHIR SDK	Ephraim Kigamba
AndroidX	Simon Schiller
AndroidX, Jetpack	Eli Hart
Angular	Dario Piotrowicz
Apache Airflow	Ash Berlin-Taylor
Apache Airflow	Kaxil Naik
Apache Beam	Alex Kosolapov
Apache Beam	Alex Van Boxel
Apache Beam	Austin Bennett
Apache Beam	Calvin Leung
Apache Beam	Chun Yang
Apache Beam	Matthias Baetens
Apache Beam, Hop	Matt Casters
Apache Cassandra	Dinesh Joshi
Apache Log4J	Ralph Goers
apache/pinot , evidentlyai/evidently	Nadcharin Silaphung
ASF Diversity and Inclusion Committee	Katia Rojas
Bazel	Brentley Jones
Bazel	Fabian Meumertzheim
bazel-zig-cc	Motiejus Jakštys
Buefy	Walter Tommasi
caps-rs	Luca Bruno
Chrome DevTools	Jesper van den Ende
Chrome OS	Álvaro Guzmán Parrochia
Chromium	Jinyoung Hur
Cirq	Victory Omole
conda-forge package maintenance	Mark Harfouche
ContainerSSH	Sanja Bonic
coreboot	Elyes Haouas
coreboot	Felix Held
coreboot	Felix Singer
coreboot	Matt DeVillier
COVID-19 scenario modeling hub	Matteo Chinazzi
Docsy	Andreas Deininger
Docsy	Franz Steininger
Docsy	Gareth Watts
Docsy	Patrice Chalin
DoIT	Eduardo Naufel Schettino
Eleventy	Zach Leatherman
Firebase iOS SDK	Artem Volkov
Firebase iOS SDK	Florian Schweizer
Firebase iOS SDK	Morten Bek Ditlevsen
Firebase iOS SDK	Akira Matsuda
Firebase iOS SDK	Andrey Uryadov
Firebase iOS SDK	Ashleigh Kaffenberger
Firebase iOS SDK	Kamil Powałowski
Firebase iOS SDK	Marina Gornostaeva
Firebase iOS SDK	Paul Harter
Firebase iOS SDK	Yakov Manshin
Flutter	Alex Li
Flutter	Xu Baolin
Flutter DevTools	Bruno Leroux
Fuchsia	Fabio D'Urso
Gentoo	Agostino Sarubbo
Gentoo	Toralf Förster
Go	Rhys Hiltner
Good Docs Project	Carrie Crowe
Halide	Alex Reinking
HTTP Archive	Barry Pollard
classgraph	Luke Hutchison
Istio	Rama Chavali
Jest mock library for Google Maps JavaScript	Eric Egli
jupyter_bbox_widget	Daria Vasyukova
karatelabs	Dinesh Arora
KDE Frameworks 6	Volker Krause
Knative	Dave Protasowski
Knative	Evan Anderson
Kubernetes	Adolfo García Veytia
Kubernetes	Rey Lejano
libsodium	Frank Denis
Linux, LLVM	Nathan Chancellor
LLVM	Sylvestre Ledru
LLVM	Zhiqian Xia
Mediawiki	Soham Parekh
mold	Rui Ueyama
Multiscale modeling of brain circuts	Salvador Dura Bernal
Open-JDK	Aleksey Shipilëv
OpenROAD	Matt Liberty
oreboot	Danny Milosavljevic
ostreedev/ostree	Colin Walters
p5.js	Lauren Lee McCarthy
PepTrans: SARS-CoV-2 Peptidic Drug Discovery	Ahmed Elnaggar
protoc-jar-maven-plugin	Oliver Suciu
PyBaMM	Priyanshu Agarwal
RDKit	Greg Landrum
regex-automata	Andrew Gallant
rgs1	Raul Gutierrez Segales
Robolectric	Junyi Wang
Ruby for Good	Gia Coelho
Ruby for Good	Sean Marcia
Sass	Christophe Coevoet
Screenity, Omni, Mapus, Flowy	Alyssa X
sigstore	Carlos Panato
SLF4j, Logback, reload4j Java Logging Frameworks	Ceki Gülcü
Smithay	Victor Berger
Sollya	Christoph Lauter
Sollya	Mioara Joldes
Sollya	Sylvain Chevillard
Spanish Open Source Distributed Systems Seminar	Ricardo Zavaleta
strict-csp and html-webpack-plugin	Jan Nicklas
Tekton Pipelines	Aiden De Loryn
Tekton Pipelines	Eugene McArdle
TFX	Gerard Casas Saez
TFX	Vincent Nguyen
The Good Docs Project	Chris Ganta
The Good Docs Project	Deanna Thompson
The Good Docs Project	Gayathri Krishnaswamy
The Good Docs Project	Nelson Guya
TL Draw	Steve Ruiz
Trust-DNS	Benjamin Fry
ugrep	Robert van Engelen
virtio-iommu	Jean-Philippe Brucker
VirtualFlow	Christoph Gorgulla
Vite, Vitest	Matias Capeletto
Vite, Vitest	Anthony Fu
Vue, Stylelint	Yosuke Ota
Vuls	Kota Kanbe
wails	Lea Anthony
WalkingPad controller	Dušan Klinec
Web Almanac	David Fox
WebRTC	Philipp Hancke
What we teach about race and gender: Representation in images and text of children books	Teodora Szasz
Zig	Andrew Kelley

Thank you for your contributions to open source! Congratulations!

By Maria Tabak – Google Open Source