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Charlie,<br>
I suggest that you build a "reference tutorial". The key will be to
get the structure of the document right, and provide guidance under
each heading with regards to what should be written there.<br>
<br>
I suggest having a look at the UDig Quickstart which is the
reference Quickstart for OSGeo-Live.<br>
Don't worry about whether you OpenOffice or RST, or something else
for the moment. Once we have the structure of a tutorial, we can
then transpose it to whatever format and tools we choose.<br>
<br>
I'll have very little time to dedicate to this till after OSGeo-Live
4.5 is released (mid March 2011). After that, I'll get involved a
bit, but am aware of the limit to how much time I can personally
dedicate to the task. There is a non-trivial amount of work required
for coordination, managing processes, and quality control. If anyone
has grant money they can tap into, this is an area that I suggest
investing in. <br>
<br>
<br>
On 22/02/2011 7:16 AM, Charlie Schweik wrote:
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Hi Cameron,<br>
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On 2/21/2011 2:37 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
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Charlie,<br>
I'm interested in the development of a template for creating
material.<br>
I'm happy to review the template to ensure that we can auto
generate content from it (in a similar fashion to what we do on
OSGeo-Live).<br>
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Great - you were a person I had in mind! I almost forwarded to the
group your note from last fall outlining the process for how you
built documentation for the OSGeo-Live product. I think you are
suggesting you'd REVIEW a template -- not be the point person to
develop one?<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:4D62BEE5.5000406@gmail.com" type="cite"> I
agree that OpenOffice is a prime candidate for material
creation.<br>
I think we should also ensure the template has links back to a
"Body of Knowledge". <br>
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I agree with you and the other posts by Ian and Phillip that if we
can connect to the Federal Geospatial Technology Competency Model
in each exercise or tutorial that would be great too. This
shouldn't actually be that hard to do -- to point whatever it is
doing to a relevant section in that model. So I could see this as
being a section in the template. I think a "license" section is
obviously another, as is a "link to data" section. <br>
<br>
How do you want to proceed, Cameron? I don't think you are
volunteering to "have a go" at formulating a tutorial template?
But if you are, do you want to see one or two of my tutorials? I
developed them with this effort in mind, so the headings and some
of the text might be useful for a generic template. Let me know if
you want me to send one or two to you to see them. <br>
<br>
Or if someone else would be willing to try and devise this
template, let me know. I can't devote the time right now....<br>
<br>
Charlie<br>
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