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# Season of Docs 2020 - Meeting Notes

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* [Community Bonding](#Community-Bonding)
* **[current]** [Doc-Development: September](#Doc-Development-September)
* Doc-Development: October
* Doc-Development: November
* Project Finalization

## Doc-Development: September

### 23-Sep

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### 16-Sep

- Documentation style guide creation
- Restructuring and updating documentation section of developer docs

## Community Bonding

* [09-Sep](#09-Sep)
* [02-Sep](#02-Sep)
* [26-Aug](#26-Aug)
* [21 Aug](#21-Aug)

### 09-Sep

- Docs dev starts next week:
    - Start with style guides
- Get Timo in touch with new Bokeh users:
    - Feedback form 

#### Actions

- [x] (Carolyn, Timo) help Timo with Google form to ask questions to new users
- [x] (Carolyn) Add link to new Contributing page for dev guide
- [ ] (Bryan, Pavithra) Improvements to Google Maps env var error in docs build

### 02-Sep

- Selected Google Style guide
- OpenGraph - use third party sphinx extension (https://github.com/wpilibsuite/sphinxext-opengraph)
- Pydata theme improvements
    - extending right toc
- Templates to reference examples from the docs
- Dev-env setup tomorrow

#### Actions

- [x] (Bryan) Put Timo and Chris in touch

### 26-Aug

- User guide restructuring plan
- Discussed:
    - mechanism for redirects to new pages
    - cross-referencing
    - thoughts on troubleshooting/FAQ page
    - multilevel sidebar toc
- Docs landing page visualization can be improved
- Style guides:
    - [Microsoft](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/welcome/)
    - [Google](https://developers.google.com/style/)
- vale linting library
    
### 21-Aug

- Introductions!
- Decided on weekly calls. Every Wednesday 8.30AM PDT
- Fresh #docs Slack channel for async communication
- Added Timo to bokeh/dev on GitHub
- Discussed:
    - short style guide for Bokeh
    - Automated linting for docs
    - Thoughts on state of documentation
    - Plan for interviews with core team and users
    - Accessibility audit of documentation