The following people are available to provide general help and

  support for the GSoD program.

  * link:https://twitter.com/shaunm[Shaun McCance]: Upstream Documentation focused Community Human with extensive experience in Gnome and other communities. He is general mentor for the Fedora GSoD and will be heping folks with onboarding and getting started with Technical Writing.

  * link:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:riecatnor[Marie Nordin]: Marie Nordin is the Fedora Project's Community Action and Impact Coordinator(FCAIC), stepping into the role in fall of 2019. She is a long term contributor to Fedora, beginning in 2013 with an Outreachy internship for Fedora Badges design. Marie is a member of the Fedora Design team and the lead design maintainer of Fedora Badges. Over the years she has created 100's of designs for Fedora and mentored many new design contributors.She is the Co-admin for the GSoD this year.

  * link:https://github.com/ffmancera[Fernando]: Fernando,is a Software Engineer at Red Hat working mainly in the nmstate project developing new features and fixing bugs. He has also done some work in Linux kernel and Tor project on his spare time.

  * Antonio Cardace: Antonio Cardace,Software Engineer at Red Hat working on NetworkManager.

  	- Mailing List : networkmanager-list@gnome.org

  * Thomas Haller: Thomas Haller is an active member in the upstream NetworkManager community and working for Red Hat.

  * link:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Till[Till Mass] : Till is long time Fedora contributor and Red Hatter working on nmstate. He has contributed to various parts of the project and currently is a part of the Fedora Council.

  == Projects

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  | Projects             | Mentors          | Tasks

  * Thomas Haller (thaller@redhat.com)

  * Write new content, explaining certain aspects of how NetworkManager works. In particular, a high level overview of how NetworkManager works and `howtos`.

  * Reorganize and restructure the content on our Github Pages and Documentation

  ** Better link to useful resources (e.g. distributions specific NetworkManager pages, our documentation, or useful blog articles).

  * The D-Bus API reference gets generated from the introspection D-Bus description in XML. This is probably the part that requires the least amount of work, but should also be reviewed whether there can be anything improved.

  * Improve NetworkManager’s README file in our git as this is also a good starting point for contributors.

  * Till Maas (till@redhat.com)| * Nmstate’s documentation currently does not contain a getting started guide. We’d like the technical writer to create a complete guide on how to start using nmstate.

  ** Create detailed usage examples using the different features that nmstare supports

  ** This getting started would be added to our link:https://www.nmstate.io/[official webpage] generated from this link:https://github.com/nmstate/nmstate.github.io[git repository]

  * Nmstate’s API documentation is currently allocated in the official webpage. The current API documentation is outdated and lacking details. We’d like the technical writer to update and complete the current API documentation

  * Sumantro Mukherjee (sumantro@redhat.com)|* Update and refactor the Fedora Installation Guide

  We would like to fix all issues described above. A writer working on this project would be expected to:

      ** Modularize the guide so that it functions as a set of standalone modules and leverages the advantages of Antora, instead of the current hierarchical structure. This involves restructing the source file structure and updating all internal references (xrefs).

  * Develop a set of documentation showcasing Fedora's features

  ** Fedora Documentation is missing a set of docs aimed at people considering switching to Linux and Fedora in particular from other operating systems, notably MS Windows. We would like to create documentation that showcases Fedora's features relevant to a home user's general use cases, such as web browsing, multimedia creation and editing, video playback, etc.

  ** A writer working on creating such a doc set would be expected to work with various stakeholders in the Fedora Project such as the Mindshare Committee and project leadership, identify personas and their specific use cases, and then create documentation covering these use cases.

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  == What is Google Season of Docs?

  Season of Docs brings technical writers and open source projects together for a few months to work on open source documentation.

  Fedora is excited to take part in it!

  Fedora is still in the process of applying to be a mentoring organization.

  Today there is nothing we can do except wait until Google makes a decision.

  You can also start a conversation with our mentors about your own idea.

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