Hi Cameron,
Thanks for the introductions.
There is no regular meeting around this time (after the 14.0 release)
but we could plan a meeting.
Since this is mainly related to documentation, I would like to hear the
availability of the documentation team before planning this meeting.
Would this Tue 20 July at 17:00 UTC work for everyone?
Best,
Angelos
On 7/8/21 11:45 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
+Codrina Ilie <[email protected]> +Ankita
<[email protected]> +Nikos Lambrinos <[email protected]> (Who
have been involved with developing a proposed OSGeo-Live glossary and would
be good people to know.)
Hi folks,
As Nelson mentions, I was impressed with Nelson's stated background in tech
writing and environmental science, combined with his interest in getting
involved in open source in a long term way, and suggested that maintaining
the quickstarts and project overviews would be a great place to start.
I see this could be a building upon the prior work that Felicity did with
brining quickstarts up to date
<https://flicstar.com/project-report-for-season-of-docs-2019>.
A good starting point could be to audit all the existing quickstarts. Run
each of them. Make sure they are still up to date and work. Make sure the
screenshots are still valid.
In a year or so, this could extend to updating our templates to align with
the emerging best practice doc templates which are being developed within
The Good Docs Project.
I can provide Nelson with some mentoring from a tech writing perspective,
but will have limited capacity to help with the OSGeoLive side of things,
such as reaching out to each project asking for latest updates.
I have been mostly inactive within OSGeo-Live for the last couple of years.
I'm interested to hear if this plan would work?
There might be some changes which I'm not aware of?
I assume there is still a periodic team meeting? Could you please share
details with Nelson.
On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 19:07, Nelson Guya <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
My name is Nelson Guya, a technical writer from Nairobi, Kenya. I recently
joined the Good Docs Project to help open source projects improve
the quality of their documentation.
Earlier this week, I had a conversation with Cameron Shorter (cofounder
and coordinator of OSGeoLive and TheGoodDocsProject), who pointed me to
OSGeoLive, and we talked about my involvement with the project.
I am interested in helping out by reviewing and updating OSGeoLive
Quickstarts and project overviews. My educational background (BSc
Environmental Science) and years of writing experience will be useful in
the project in the future.
He, Cameron, has offered to help me get started with managing the OSGeo
Live Docs.
I plan to be actively involved with the docs while using and implementing
Cameron's invaluable insights and guidance - as he has worked with the
project since its inception.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Nelson Guya
--
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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