[FOSS4G-Oceania] FOSS4G Birds of Feather session: Sustaining a training documentation pipeline

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi QGIS and FOSS4G folks,

I think a number of things are serendipitously coming together to create 
the perfect opportunity to establish collaborative building and 
maintaining OSGeo training material in general, and QGIS in particular. 
(Templates, processes, tool chains developed for QGIS could be rolled 
out to other projects in future releases).

I was talking with Andrew Jeffrey and Chris Milne yesterday about 
setting up a Birds of a Feather session at the FOSS4G conference in 
Melbourne next week to discuss this. Andrew and Chris mentined that 
their employer, Chartis Technology is keen to collaboratively build QGIS 
training.

Sarah Maddox, tech writer from Google, is launching a "Google Season of 
Docs" [1], from which we might be able to tap into experienced tech 
writer resources.

I'm hoping that once we get momentum going, we could draw in 
universities from Geo4All. Some universities already have good training 
material we can start from.

I'm interested from an OSGeoLive perspective - drawing from our existing 
community and extending our established documentation pipeline to also 
include training material.

If you are interested to be involved, then speak up (and/or look for 
details of the BoF session once we find a venue and timeslot).

[1] 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ABqCc5uAoQv9aqGCxmNqOJ9S_Tst-adNV3fcWQ2Quwc/edit#slide=id.g42b115f18c_0_0


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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant

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