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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Margherita,<br>
I'm interested to understand a bit more about your idea and see
how we could align it with OSGeo-Live.<br>
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One of the key success factors we have with OSGeo-Live is that it
is continually maintained and updated. I could list many projects
which attract volunteers or people to create initial
documentation, but then the documentation quickly looses relevance
because it is not maintained.<br>
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So I suggest that you ask:<br>
* How will the vademecum be maintained?<br>
* Who is our target audience? <br>
* Would it be possible to develop a production pipeline which uses
existing Project Overviews and/or Quickstarts (which are
maintained) to create the vademecum?<br>
* If the use case is substantially different to existing
OSGeo-Live templates and use case, then it might be a candidate
for another documentation template.<br>
* However, also be aware that small, concise documentation is much
easier to maintain than larger docs. Hence, I'd suggest if we are
thinking long term, we should aim to minimise the creation of
extra documentation formats, and try to automatically reformat
existing material. <br>
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On 27/03/13 21:54, Beccati, Alan wrote:<br>
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<div>Looks like a good option for the entire project to have,
furthermore there is already overview material for all
applications in English which gets translated already and that
can suit some booklet sections. You might consider building it
directly with the rst based system that OSGeo already has in
place, picking well known sections from the existing documents
and reformatting them into booklet format.</div>
<div>I'm not much deeply into that system however to assist you
with the details, maybe someone with more experience in that
part can investigate feasibility further.<br>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Alan</div>
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Margherita Di Leo [<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:diregola@gmail.com">diregola@gmail.com</a>]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 27 March 2013 11:32<br>
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<div>Dear all,
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<div>an Italian LUG (Linux User Group) is preparing a
series of vademecum in Italian on various FOSS in order
to distribute them during events/conferences. My idea
was to prepare a vademecum about the OSGeo-Live project.
The vademecum will be a booklet of 16 pages in A6
format, similar to [1]. I was wondering if you think
this kind of marketing item would be worth to be created
in English by the collaborative effort of people here
(who is interested to collaborate?) and then translated
in Italian and other languages, or else I should just
write it directly in Italian.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
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