Organization Description:
Sugar Labs creates and maintains a collection of tools that learners (K-8) use to explore, discover, create, and reflect. We distribute these tools freely and encourage our users to appropriate them, taking ownership and responsibility for their learning. The mission of Sugar Labs is to support the Sugar community of users and developers and to help learners “learn how to learn” by tailoring Sugar to meet the requirements of local languages and curricula. Sugar Labs is a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy.

What previous experience has your organization had in documentation or collaborating with technical writers?
If you or any of your mentors have worked with technical writers before, or have developed documentation, mention this in your answer. Describe the documentation that you produced and the ways in which you worked with the technical writer. For example, describe any review processes that you used, or how the technical writer's skills were useful to your project. Explain how this previous experience may help you to work with a technical writer in Season of Docs.

We have a somewhat eclectic experience regarding documentation. On the one hand, we have fairly extensive documentation for some individual apps, e.g., Music Blocks (See https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/blob/master/guide/README.md and https://github.com/sugarlabs/musicblocks/blob/master/guide-ja/music_blocks_operation_manual.pdf) as well as fairly well spelled-out instructions for our contributors (See https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar-docs) where we really fall short is in documentation that would help a teacher get started with our platform (both in terms of getting the platform installed and in getting it integrated into a classroom or extra-curriculum setting).

For the most part, we use the same tools for our documentation as we do for our software: Git Hub issues and Pull Requests.

What previous experience has your organization had mentoring individuals?
If you or any of your mentors have taken part in Google Summer of Code or a similar program that mentors individuals, mention this in your answer. Describe your achievements in that program. Explain how this experience may influence the way you work in Season of Docs.

We have been participating in Google Code In and Google Summer of Code for many years. We'd model our participation in Season of Documentation along the same lines as our Summer of Code program, but would bring to the forefront members of our pedagogy and deployment teams.