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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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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Open source projects face sustainability challenges. How will docs developed during GSoD be maintained long term?</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Can a writer’s expertise be amplified to help community users and developers write good docs?</span></p></li>
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<div>I'm wanting to pull together a compelling proposal, by
listing a team of people with a cross section of skills who
would amplify the impact of a technical writer. I'm hoping
this team will include:</div>
<div>* 1 Official Google Season of docs tech writer.</div>
<div>* Maybe a few other tech writer volunteers who hear about
the project and jump on board</div>
<div>* Some OSGeo/OSGeoLive developers/users who can help
write on a topic we choose. I'm volunteering for this. So
has Johanna Botman. I'm hoping to find a few more. Astrid, I
wonder if you'd be interested in helping with this?<br>
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<div>* Some core OSGeoLive team members who can help with git,
the doc build process, and related issues. Angelos, Vicky,
Nicolas, I'm wondering if you would mind offering your
services in this regard?</div>
<div>* It would be good to have a few of our translators offer
to advise on the translation process and potentially offer
to translate what is created into another language as part
of our OSGeoLive documentation pipeline.<br>
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<div>If so, I'm hoping you might be able to add your name,
background and interest in this part:</div>
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<div>Let me know if you need write access to the document. <br>
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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>Thank you Charlie for bringing this to discussion. Before
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<div>I am interested,you can get me listed.</div>
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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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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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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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