== 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 [https://twitter.com/aaronbassett/status/1254601750461534208?s=20 folks send thanks].

Repeatedly though we've had one observation, that a specialist technical writer could
really help us with. The [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/internals/contributing/ 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 [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/internals/contributing/new-contributors/ advice for new contributors], [https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/3.0/internals/contributing/writing-code/submitting-patches/ 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 [https://forum.djangoproject.com Forum contributing channel].