# Experience in Google Season of Docs 2019 with Apache Airflow

DevFeed: [Experience in Google Season of Docs 2019 with Apache Airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/experience-in-google-season-of-docs-2019-with-apache-airflow-32560.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://airflow.apache.org/blog/experience-in-google-season-of-docs-2019-with-apache-airflow/>)

Author: Apache Airflow

Published: 2019-12-20T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Apache Airflow Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apache-airflow-blog.md>)

Topics: [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/airflow.md>), [Documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/documentation.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [Apache Cassandra](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cassandra.md>)

Tags: [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/airflow.md>), [apache-airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/apache-airflow.md>), [docs](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/docs.md>), [documentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/documentation.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [technical-writing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical-writing.md>)

## AI overview

A personal account of participating in Google Season of Docs 2019 with Apache Airflow. The author describes choosing Airflow, selecting a documentation project about creating workflows, and contributing as a technical writer with support from the open-source community.

## Source excerpt

I came across Google Season of Docs (GSoD) almost by accident, thanks to my extensive HackerNews and Twitter addiction. I was familiar with the Google Summer of Code but not with this program. It turns out it was the inaugural phase. I read the details, and the process felt a lot like GSoC except that this was about documentation. About Me I have been writing tech articles on medium as well as my blog for the past 1.5 years. Blogging helps me test my understanding of the concepts as untangling the toughest of ideas in simple sentences requires a considerable time investment. Also, I have been working as a Software Developer for the past three years, which involves writing documentation for my projects as well. I completed my B.Tech from IIT Roorkee. During my stay in college, I applied for GSoC once but didn't make it through in the final list of selected candidates. I saw GSoD as an excellent opportunity to improve my technical writing skills using feedback from the open-source community. I contributed some bug fixes and features to Apache Superset and Apache Druid, but this would be my first contribution as a technical writer. Searching for the organization About 40+ organizations were participating in the GSoD. However, there were two which came as the right choice for me in the first instant. The first one was Apache Airflow because I had already used Airflow extensively and also contributed some custom operators inside the forked version of my previous company. The second one was Apache Cassandra, on which I also had worked extensively but hadn't done any code or doc changes. Considering the total experience, I decided to go with the Airflow. Project selection After selecting the org, the next step was to choose the project. Again, my previous experience played a role here, and I ended up picking the How to create a workflow . The aim of the project was to write documentation which will help users in creating complex as well as custom DAGs. The final deliverabl