GSoD 2020 Organization Application

Organization application

Open source organization's email address

fellows at stellar-group dot org

Open source project name

HPX

Link to the open source project

https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx

Open source project description

HPX is a distributed C++ library for concurrency and parallelism. It implements APIs defined in the C++ Standard Library and extends them to work in a distributed memory space. In this way HPX exposes a unified programing model which transparently utilizes available resources. Our work is closely aligned with the C++ Standard and the ongoing C++ standardization process.

Link to your organization’s page about Season of Docs

https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx/wiki/GSoD-2020-Project-Ideas

Does your organization want to accept the mentor stipend?

Yes

Primary administrator's full name

Patrick Diehl

Primary administrator's display name

diehlpk

Are you participating as a mentor in Season of Docs?

No

Alternative administrator's full name

Mikael Simberg

What previous experience has your organization had in documentation or collaborating with technical writers?

Our organization has experience in writing documentation for HPX. We have documentation for the API, for Developers, and some Quickstart for using HPX. However, the documentation was written by our open source contributors and none of them has any professional experience in technical writing. We got feedback, mostly via GitHub issues, from users and tried to improve the documentation using their user experience.

We had the chance to work with one technical writer, who worked with us during Google Season of Docs 2019, on the project Edit and streamline the content of the existing HPX documentation. She was supposed to two work on a couple sections of the documentation. She was able to edit all of our existing documentation and even continued her contributions after the GSoD period and contributed 7 pull requests (of which 4 were merged).

We had a very good experience and learned a lot on how to improve our documentation. We apply again to cooperate with a technical writer since we believe that the technical writer improves their skills by getting to work on a completely new project/codebase, our documentation has lots of room for improvement and we learn how to better document our code.

What previous experience has your organization had mentoring individuals?

Our organization was selected for Google Summer of Code six times and we mentored around 25 students. We also participated in Google Season of Documentation on 2019 and got acquainted on how to work with technical writers. Additionally, some of our organization members work in academia and have plenty of experience supervising/mentoring undergraduate and graduate students.

How many technical writers does your organization want to mentor this year

1 or 2 -> 1

Link to project ideas list

https://github.com/STEllAR-GROUP/hpx/wiki/GSoD-2019-Project-Ideas