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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2025-03-12 09:15, Even Rouault via
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cite="mid:b15e3da8-b8b4-4ad1-8aa5-cb4df197b9c7@spatialys.com">Hi,
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Seth Girvin (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/geographika">https://github.com/geographika</a>) and Harrissou
Sant-anna (DelazJ) are interested in contributing improvements to
the GDAL documentation, one of the most recurring item where
enhancements are wished from the feedback we got through the User
Survey last November. Both have experience on documentation of
open source geospatial software (respectively on Mapserver for
Seth and QGIS for Harrissou) and are excited to bring it to GDAL.
This is understood this will be a small part time activity for
both of them. Dan Baston has kindly agreed to supervise their
work, regarding initial setup, review of pull requests and filing
in documentation tickets for planned tasks in the issue tracker.
We will also welcome Seth and Harrissou inputs.
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A non-exhaustive list of the potential different activities is:
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- Adding more examples to existing documentation (typically for
command line utilities)
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- Systematic addition of docstrings for Python API
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- Adding tutorial-like material (with graphics when appropriate),
illustrating workflows that can combine several tools to produce a
desired outcome
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- Adding a user-focused, example-driven introduction to the
project on gdal.org and github.com/OSGeo/GDAL, ala README of
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/qgis/qgis">https://github.com/qgis/qgis</a>
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- Harmonization of presentation of existing documentation / making
it more easy to find content
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- Hierarchisation of content in existing documentation. For
popular tools or drivers, it could probably be interesting to have
"basic" and "advanced" sections (typically for the GeoTIFF page
that could/should probably be split)
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Motion: approve use of up to 25,000 euros for Seth Girvin and up
to 25,000 euros for Harrissous Sant-anna from the GDAL Sponsorship
Program, for the period April 1st 2025 - March 31st 2026, on
documentation enhancements for GDAL.
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Starting with my +1,
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Even
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Daniel Morissette
Mapgears Inc
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