<div dir="ltr">Let's continue with today's meeting (It is a standard timeslot for The Good Docs Project).<div>I don't think we can find a timeslot of Africa/Europe/Americas/India/Australia that will work for all.</div><div>Once Nelson has been introduced to the OSGeoLive team, I can imagine him attending the standard OSGeoLive meeting timeslot (which is 5am for me at the moment and I likely won't attend).</div><div>Nelson, for your information, Vicky has been a dynamo contributor to docs (and translation) in the past and is a good person to know and team up with.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 22:44, Angelos Tzotsos <<a href="mailto:gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com">gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Cameron,<br>
<br>
Thanks for the invite.<br>
I am not sure if this time will work for Vicky (Mexico)<br>
<br>
On 7/18/21 11:05 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:<br>
> Thanks for your response Angelos,<br>
> I'm wondering what timezones you wish to cover from OSGeo Live's doc team?<br>
> I'm in Australia, Nelson is in Africa, I know you Astrid are in Europe. Is<br>
> there anyone you wish to loop in from America?<br>
> Ankita from The Good Docs Project might want to join. She is in India.<br>
><br>
> Nelson and I are already planning to have a video meeting (URL<br>
> <<a href="https://meet.google.com/nzy-hoks-cfb?authuser=0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://meet.google.com/nzy-hoks-cfb?authuser=0</a>>) on Tuesday morning in<br>
> Europe/Africa as part of The Good Docs Project.<br>
><br>
> Would you be able to make this timeslot? I'll send Angelos and Astrid an<br>
> invite to the meeting. Others are welcome to come too if interested.<br>
><br>
> <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=7&day=20&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=47&p4=248&p5=102&p6=44&p7=26&p8=136&p9=179&p10=220&p11=224&p12=170" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=7&day=20&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=47&p4=248&p5=102&p6=44&p7=26&p8=136&p9=179&p10=220&p11=224&p12=170</a><br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=7&day=20&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=47&p4=248&p5=102&p6=44&p7=26&p8=136&p9=179&p10=220&p11=224&p12=170" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=7&day=20&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=47&p4=248&p5=102&p6=44&p7=26&p8=136&p9=179&p10=220&p11=224&p12=170</a>><br>
> LocationLocal TimeTime ZoneUTC Offset<br>
> Auckland <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/new-zealand/auckland" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/new-zealand/auckland</a>> (New<br>
> Zealand - Auckland) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 7:00:00 pm NZST<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/nzst" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/nzst</a>> UTC+12 hours<br>
> Sydney <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/australia/sydney" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/australia/sydney</a>> (Australia<br>
> - New South Wales) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 5:00:00 pm AEST<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aest" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aest</a>> UTC+10 hours<br>
> Brisbane <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/australia/brisbane" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/australia/brisbane</a>> (Australia<br>
> - Queensland) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 5:00:00 pm AEST<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aest" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aest</a>> UTC+10 hours<br>
> Tokyo <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/japan/tokyo" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/japan/tokyo</a>> (Japan) Tuesday,<br>
> 20 July 2021 at 4:00:00 pm JST<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/jst" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/jst</a>> UTC+9<br>
> hours<br>
> Hong Kong <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/hong-kong/hong-kong" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/hong-kong/hong-kong</a>> (Hong<br>
> Kong) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 3:00:00 pm HKT<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/hkt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/hkt</a>> UTC+8 hours<br>
> Mumbai <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/india/mumbai" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/india/mumbai</a>> (India -<br>
> Maharashtra) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 12:30:00 pm IST<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/ist" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/ist</a>> UTC+5:30 hours<br>
> Athens <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/greece/athens" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/greece/athens</a>> (Greece) Tuesday,<br>
> 20 July 2021 at 10:00:00 am EEST<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/eest" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/eest</a>> UTC+3 hours<br>
> London <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/uk/london" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/uk/london</a>> (United Kingdom -<br>
> England) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 8:00:00 am BST<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/bst" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/bst</a>> UTC+1 hour<br>
> New York <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/new-york" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/new-york</a>> (USA - New<br>
> York) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 3:00:00 am EDT<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/edt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/edt</a>> UTC-4 hours<br>
> Salt Lake City <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/salt-lake-city" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/salt-lake-city</a>> (USA<br>
> - Utah) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 1:00:00 am MDT<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/mdt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/mdt</a>> UTC-6 hours<br>
> San Francisco <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/san-francisco" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/san-francisco</a>> (USA<br>
> - California) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 12:00:00 midnight PDT<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/pdt" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/pdt</a>> UTC-7 hours<br>
> Nairobi <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/kenya/nairobi" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/kenya/nairobi</a>> (Kenya) Tuesday,<br>
> 20 July 2021 at 10:00:00 am EAT<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/eat" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/eat</a>> UTC+3<br>
> hours<br>
> Corresponding UTC (GMT) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 07:00:00<br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210720T0700" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210720T0700</a>><br>
><br>
> <<a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=7&day=20&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=47&p4=248&p5=102&p6=44&p7=26&p8=136&p9=179&p10=220&p11=224&p12=170" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=7&day=20&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=47&p4=248&p5=102&p6=44&p7=26&p8=136&p9=179&p10=220&p11=224&p12=170</a>><br>
><br>
><br>
> On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 at 19:03, Angelos Tzotsos <<a href="mailto:gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com" target="_blank">gcpp.kalxas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hi Cameron,<br>
>><br>
>> Thanks for the introductions.<br>
>> There is no regular meeting around this time (after the 14.0 release)<br>
>> but we could plan a meeting.<br>
>> Since this is mainly related to documentation, I would like to hear the<br>
>> availability of the documentation team before planning this meeting.<br>
>><br>
>> Would this Tue 20 July at 17:00 UTC work for everyone?<br>
>><br>
>> Best,<br>
>> Angelos<br>
>><br>
>> On 7/8/21 11:45 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:<br>
>>> +Codrina Ilie <<a href="mailto:codrina@geo-spatial.org" target="_blank">codrina@geo-spatial.org</a>> +Ankita<br>
>>> <<a href="mailto:ankitatripathi.2312@gmail.com" target="_blank">ankitatripathi.2312@gmail.com</a>> +Nikos Lambrinos <<a href="mailto:labrinos@eled.auth.gr" target="_blank">labrinos@eled.auth.gr</a>><br>
>> (Who<br>
>>> have been involved with developing a proposed OSGeo-Live glossary and<br>
>> would<br>
>>> be good people to know.)<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi folks,<br>
>>> As Nelson mentions, I was impressed with Nelson's stated background in<br>
>> tech<br>
>>> writing and environmental science, combined with his interest in getting<br>
>>> involved in open source in a long term way, and suggested that<br>
>> maintaining<br>
>>> the quickstarts and project overviews would be a great place to start.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I see this could be a building upon the prior work that Felicity did with<br>
>>> brining quickstarts up to date<br>
>>> <<a href="https://flicstar.com/project-report-for-season-of-docs-2019" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://flicstar.com/project-report-for-season-of-docs-2019</a>>.<br>
>>> A good starting point could be to audit all the existing quickstarts. Run<br>
>>> each of them. Make sure they are still up to date and work. Make sure the<br>
>>> screenshots are still valid.<br>
>>><br>
>>> In a year or so, this could extend to updating our templates to align<br>
>> with<br>
>>> the emerging best practice doc templates which are being developed within<br>
>>> The Good Docs Project.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I can provide Nelson with some mentoring from a tech writing perspective,<br>
>>> but will have limited capacity to help with the OSGeoLive side of things,<br>
>>> such as reaching out to each project asking for latest updates.<br>
>>><br>
>>> I have been mostly inactive within OSGeo-Live for the last couple of<br>
>> years.<br>
>>> I'm interested to hear if this plan would work?<br>
>>> There might be some changes which I'm not aware of?<br>
>>> I assume there is still a periodic team meeting? Could you please share<br>
>>> details with Nelson.<br>
>>><br>
>>> On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 19:07, Nelson Guya <<a href="mailto:nelsonkimani63@gmail.com" target="_blank">nelsonkimani63@gmail.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>>> Hello,<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> My name is Nelson Guya, a technical writer from Nairobi, Kenya. I<br>
>> recently<br>
>>>> joined the Good Docs Project to help open source projects improve<br>
>>>> the quality of their documentation.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Earlier this week, I had a conversation with Cameron Shorter (cofounder<br>
>>>> and coordinator of OSGeoLive and TheGoodDocsProject), who pointed me to<br>
>>>> OSGeoLive, and we talked about my involvement with the project.<br>
>>>> I am interested in helping out by reviewing and updating OSGeoLive<br>
>>>> Quickstarts and project overviews. My educational background (BSc<br>
>>>> Environmental Science) and years of writing experience will be useful in<br>
>>>> the project in the future.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> He, Cameron, has offered to help me get started with managing the OSGeo<br>
>>>> Live Docs.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I plan to be actively involved with the docs while using and<br>
>> implementing<br>
>>>> Cameron's invaluable insights and guidance - as he has worked with the<br>
>>>> project since its inception.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Looking forward to hearing from you.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Regards,<br>
>>>> Nelson Guya<br>
>>>><br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD<br>
>> President<br>
>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation<br>
>> <a href="http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos</a><br>
>><br>
>><br>
<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD<br>
President<br>
Open Source Geospatial Foundation<br>
<a href="http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos</a><br>
<br>
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