<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><br></div><div>Cameron,</div><div><br></div><div>This is doubly timely: the next phase of funding we have for ELOGeo will particularly look at "community curation" tools, e.g. to help deprecate old material.</div><div><br></div><div>We also hope to integrate some on-line learning material using the Xerte open source toolkit (also developed in Nottingham).</div><div><br></div><div>We're open to suggestion though in this, and hope to be able to run a side workshop at FOSS4G in Nottingham to present ideas for feedback and discussion. I hope our work will really kick off in May/June (some discussion needed with our funders, JISC, about the project plan first).</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Jeremy</div><div><br></div><div><div>-- ------------------------------------------------------------ --</div><div>Jeremy Morley</div><div>Geospatial Science Theme Leader, Nottingham Geospatial Institute,</div><div>Triumph Road, University of Nottingham. NG7 2TU, United Kingdom.</div><div>Web: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ngi Twitter: jeremy_morley</div><div>Tel.: +44/0 115 84 68411</div><div>Email: jeremy.morley@nottingham.ac.uk</div><div><br></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> 29 April 2013 23:59<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Lluís Vicens <<a href="mailto:lluis@sigte.udg.es">lluis@sigte.udg.es</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> Jeremy Morley <<a href="mailto:jeremy.morley@nottingham.ac.uk">jeremy.morley@nottingham.ac.uk</a>>, "<a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org">ica-osgeo-labs@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, "<a href="mailto:live-demo@lists.osgeo.org">live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:live-demo@lists.osgeo.org">live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: What writing and maintenance guidelines should be applied to OSGeo Training material?<br></div><div><br></div><div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It is great to hear that we have free
training material seeding the ELOGeo repository.<br>
I think the next step is to work out writing and maintenance
guidelines which can be applied to ensure a consistent, and
up-to-date level of quality across all training material.<br>
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Once this is in place, it will make it much easier for the
community to develop and maintain our documentation.<br>
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So questions I'd like to ask workshop authors are:<br>
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* Are there any examples or best practices in place for outlining
the structure of a training course? (I'm looking for something
similar to our OSGeo-Live documentation processes here: <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Documentation">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Documentation</a>
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* How can we collect and then incorporate user feedback on the
documentation? I like how the Postgres documentation allows users
to "Add Comment" to each page:<br>
<a href="http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/index.html">http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.2/interactive/index.html</a><br>
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* What technologies should we be using to create the
documentation? For OSGeo-Live we use RST and subversion. I'd be
interested to hear whether this is a technical barrier for tutors,
and maybe we should be adopting a CMS, or wiki, or open office, or
...<br>
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On 29/04/2013 6:11 PM, Lluís Vicens wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Al 27/04/13 23:01, En/na Jeremy
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<pre wrap="">Dear Cameron,
As a contributor to the Summer School, I'd certainly be happy to contribute material from that to the Live DVD. As I recall, at least some of the material is in ELOGeo under a CC-by-SA licence but of content is updated each year. We have some funding to do some more work on ELOGeo this year, and I plan to convert my course material based on the OSGeo Live USB system to content in ELOGeo. This might serve both purposes. Happy to discuss further.
Jeremy
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<font face="Ubuntu">Dear Cameron, as Jeremy points out, all the
documentation used as training material during the previous
editions of the summer school [1][2][3], are freely available
for download in the summer school website as well as from the
ELOGeo[4] repository under a creative commons license. Using
this material as a starting point for educational material
related to OSGeo-Live sounds good. Do you think that a CC-By-SA
is a proper license for this kind of material? <br>
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Cheers,<br>
Lluís<br>
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[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2010/Materials">http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2010/Materials</a><br>
[2] <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2011/programme/Materials">http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2011/programme/Materials</a><br>
[3] <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/Materials">http://www.sigte.udg.edu/summerschool2012/Materials</a><br>
[4] <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/">http://elogeo.nottingham.ac.uk/</a><br>
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Lluís Vicens
SIGTE - Universitat de Girona
Pl. Ferrater Mora, 1
17071 Girona
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Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
Think Globally, Fix Locally
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