ARK was accepted among nearly 200 projects that applied for Google Season of Docs program. We are very proud to be among 1 of 50 open source organizations chosen to participate in the inaugural year of this program. Looking at the list of accepted organizations, we are the only blockchain related platform that made it in.

This initiative will allow aspiring technical writers to hone their skills in the art of technical writing, as well as helping to evaluate and improve our documentation. You will be able to to work tightly with the ARK Team and our large technical community. ARK has always felt a huge amount of pride with our Open Source approach and we feel that participating in Open Source programs such as GSoD is not only important for ARK, but also for the wider Open Source community.

ARK and GSoD program

ARK would like to provide a technical writer the opportunity to work on an open-source blockchain project that utilizes cutting edge technology combined with a very vibrant and active community. With various ARK Core milestones recently completed and a plethora of new technology to uncover, there is no shortage of technical documentation, for both evaluation and writing, related to our slate of products and services.

We are looking for a new technical writer, that is flexible, understands technology in terms of scope, development, has the ability to write developer tutorials supported with examples, and can also help with basic user application guides. GSoD program gives us the ability to open our doors even more and potentially find a new member (technical writer/developer evangelist) of our distributed team.

How do we work?

Our documentation is available at https://docs.ark.io. Everything can be found there and also on our Blog. Documentation is a central point for Exchanges, Developers, Node Operators and blockchain enthusiast in general, allowing them to find information and build solutions on top of our blockchain platform. Documentation is based on VuePress, meaning that our docs are written in markdown language, making it easy to jump on and start collaborating from everywhere.

Documentation is open-source and its source code can be found here: https://github.com/ArkEcosystem/docs/

Just follow the Readme.md instructions and you will have your documentation project setup in a matter of minutes.

We also prepared initial guidelines on How to Start Writing Documentation for ARK.

Depending on the ability of the technical writer, we would like to provide the following projects (but are not limited to only them):

Project 1 — Getting Started With Core Blockchain Development guide

Getting started with new technology is always a challenge and a learning curve. The first wall you hit as a developer is usually establishing a working environment. As a technical writer you can check, evaluate and improve our current getting started guide, or provide one of your own. Always have a bigger picture in mind, like the positioning of the guidelines in our overall documentation structure, adding of new content, linking existing stuff and of course be creative.

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