I started a PR revolving around improving the Documentation for this project, and @laurent suggested that the issue be discussed here on the forums. What kind of information would be useful for contributors? Can you all suggest some possible templates for documentation? I know that off the top of …

I hadn’t checked into that document. Thanks. I was meaning for the general project and not specifically GSoC. And you asked for general places to start and i was just saying what was off the top of my head in that moment. Ha

[image] bedwardly-down: I was meaning for the general project and not specifically GSoC same idea here, but GSoC is the most urgent currently

Most definitely. Could GSoC be kind of a test bed for how the rest of the project will go in the future if things go well with that?

I would say the entire GSoC thing is test bed for us in many regards :grin:

Count me in. I am ready to see what happens. Ha

I’m starting with giving GSoC 2020 live blog structure. I’ll continue collecting. As soon as I have significant additional amount of bullet points for contribute, built and troublehshooting, I’ll derive readthedocs from it

I disagree with telling people to Google before needing help with an issue only because not everyone knows where to properly look for help or what exactly the kind of help they’ll need is. Many times, Google searches will take people to stack overflow and other forum posts that may not necessarily o…

[image] bedwardly-down: I disagree with telling people to Google before needing help with an issue only because not everyone knows where to properly look for help or what exactly the kind of help they’ll need is. agree with you, it has to be rephrased. The background is that there is a lot o…

[image] PackElend: The background is that there is a lot of activity in GSoC . If all of them ask question what can be solved by google it up within a minute, it is a real pain explain it to all. At certain point we have to protect ourselves, avoiding that we are overrun by question and missing …

[image] bedwardly-down: Maybe have a system of checks where lower level users review the students’ proposals before they get to you? that would help fore sure, we could says google 5 min ask the community mention specific user Moreover, we could agree on loose multi-level support communi…

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I try to collect all inputs here

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