GSoD 2019 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

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-2019-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 never had the chance to collaborate with professional technical writers, since none of them joined our open source community and we never had funding to hire them.

What previous experience has your organization had mentoring individuals?

Our organization was selected for Google Summer of Code five times and we mentored around 25 students. In addition, 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