Hi All, Some of you might remember a while back Ian Dees asked for volunteers for a GSoC Documentation Sprint. We applied to the sprint and were accepted!
So myself, Ian Dees and Shaun McDonald will be going to Mountain View, California the week of October 21st to work on improving some of the OSM documentation. Below is what our proposal was: "A free map of the entire world is a compelling reason to sign-up for OpenStreetMap, but getting started with map editing can be difficult. By having a getting started guide that can easily be translated into many languages we hope to reduce the barrier to entry. Earlier efforts to make a concise, easily accessible document have grown out of date and stale, so we hope to start fresh with a document that can be easily translated, is useful both online and offline, and is easily maintained. It is important to us to end up with a document that can be printed and used in the field, since a majority of our new users contribute to the project while away from the computer. Our team hopes to create documentation that can be used immediately but also improved in the future. This requires the ability to easily get new translators up to speed and store the document in many different formats. By having this in place we can then continue to improve the getting started guide over time and be able to recruit new contributors more easily." Please note this does not mean we are starting over with documentation, though it might read that way. We are more concerned with compiling what is out there, updating it and have it set-up in a way that is easy to translate and print. Thanks! -Kate _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
