Proposal(s) for Google Season of Docs

[armanbilge]

https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs

@diesalbla initially posted this in the #http4s-dev Discord channel, but this seems worth looking at for Typelevel as a whole. Here's a brief summary of the program.

What we get:

1. Accepted organizations will receive (via OpenCollective) between US$5,000 and US$15,000 to use for a documentation project.
2. Accepted organizations hire technical writers directly. Technical writers are not direct participants in Season of Docs.

What we would need to do:

1. Prepare a proposal: about/problem/scope/metrics/timeline/budget.
2. Find and hire a technical writer.
3. Monthly evaluations.
4. A final case study / final evaluation, following up on the original proposal.

Timeline:

1. Proposals due March 25, 2022 at 18:00 UTC.
2. Hiring deadline: May 16, 2022 at 18:00 UTC.
3. Final evaluation: November 15, 2022 - November 30, 2022 at 18:00 UTC.

@mpilquist previously mentioned some plans to use the current OpenCollective funds for technical writing and documentation. If those plans are concrete, this program seems like a very good opportunity to raise external funding for them.

Otherwise, part of the program is helping to pair organizations with technical writers, but I am unsure if we could find a good match this way. Of the 2021 participants, there is one that mentions Scala, one that mentions Haskell, and no mentions of FP. So we may have better luck directly recruiting someone from the community.

Of course, the other question is which project(s) could benefit most from this effort. Cats, Cats Effect, and Http4s are probably the primary suspects :)