Google's Season of Docs.

Summer of Code has been a real boon to Django. We'd like to participate too in Google's Season of Docs.

Generally Django's docs are great. So much so that ​folks send thanks.

Repeatedly though we've had one observation, that a specialist technical writer could really help us with. The ​Contributing Guide is, frankly, overwhelming.

There are something like 5 or 6 thousand words. It's got everything you need to know. But it's not approachable. Repeatedly, new contributors report that they just can't get going.

There's ​advice for new contributors, ​walkthroughs on submitting a patch, and so on. In theory everything you need to know. But it's not structured in the best way possible. It's clearly not offering the best on-ramp.

We'd love to encourage more contributors, and more contributors from across the community. A Season of Docs project focused on making Django's Contributing Guide more accessible would go a long way to promoting that goal.

Any queries are very welcome on the ​Forum contributing channel.