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<div>As mentioned earlier, I'm building up an OSGeo based
proposal for "Google Season of Docs".</div>
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<div>Adam, Victor, Sergio, you mentioned that you were
interested before. Anyone else interested?<br>
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<div>If so, I'm hoping you might be able to add your name,
background and interest under the "People keen to take part"
at: <a
href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yriJoybYjsCKhprNLNGGanw8HRA5Z8GhrNrA5RjavUU/edit#heading=h.s584ca6y83ac">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yriJoybYjsCKhprNLNGGanw8HRA5Z8GhrNrA5RjavUU/edit#heading=h.s584ca6y83ac</a></div>
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<div>Let me know if you need write access to the document. <br>
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<div>Warm regards, Cameron<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14/3/19 6:51 am, Cameron Shorter
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<p>Adam, Victor, great to hear you are interested.</p>
<p>Sergio, good question (re what should we do).</p>
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<p>I've been considering building out from our OSGeoLive
documentation pipeline (which 100s of you have contributed to).
To date, these have only focused on relatively easy
documentation types of Project Overviews and Quickstarts. But
they have been applied consistently to ~ 50 OSGeo projects, and
have been sustainably maintained and translated for close to a
decade.</p>
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<p>Let's extend this pipeline to more challenging documentation
types, like workshops or tutorials, or maybe even reference
docs. <br>
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<p>Our role would be to define a roadmap of tasks, and then guide
a technical writer. (There are 3 and 6 month options).</p>
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<p>I'd be interested to hear suggestions on what these tasks
should be. Maybe have the writer create an exemplar tutorial set
for one project, along with specific writing templates and tips,
and then provide the templates to project developers to make it
easier for them to write best practice documentation?</p>
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<p>Warm regards, Cameron<br>
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<p>Thank you Charlie for bringing this to discussion. Before
saying "yes" I'll personally need more information. Or at
least an idea of what you have in mind.<br>
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<p>Regards,<br>
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<div>I am interested,you can get me listed.</div>
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face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>De:</b>
GeoForAll <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
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moz-do-not-send="true"><geoforall-bounces@lists.osgeo.org></a>
en nombre de Cameron Shorter <a
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<b>Enviado:</b> lunes, 11 de marzo de 2019 22:46<br>
<b>Para:</b> OsGeo, GeoForAll<br>
<b>Asunto:</b> [Geo4All] GeoForAll and Season of Docs
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<div dir="ltr">OSGeo education folks,
<div>I'm aware that many of you have expertise which
crosses across education, writing and geospatial
software. I'd be interested to hear who might be
interested in bringing that expertise into an OSGeo
"Season of Docs" initiative, as per below? (I'm
personally keen to get involved).<br>
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 12:36<br>
Subject: Fwd: Announcement and thanks to Season of
Docs survey respondents: Season of Docs has launched<br>
To: OSGeo Discussions <<a
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<div dir="ltr">As per below, Google has just
launched a Season of Docs program, designed to
bring open source and technical writer communities
together, to the benefit of both. Awesome! I
reckon our OSGeo projects should get involved, and
I'm personally keen to be part of it. Anyone else
want to join me?<br>
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Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 08:56<br>
Subject: Announcement and thanks to Season of
Docs survey respondents: Season of Docs has
launched<br>
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announce that we’ve launched the 2019 pilot of Season of Docs. Details are on our website:
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a Google program that fosters collaboration between open source projects and technical writers. It’s similar to Summer of Code, but with a focus on documentation and technical writers.
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take part as a mentor in the inaugural year of Season of Docs? Organization applications open on April 2, 2019. See the full
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and join the announcement group at </span><a
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blog about Season of Docs if you’d like to share the news. We want as many people to know about it as possible. We’ve provided logos that you can download and some example content on the
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