[Qgis-community-team] community team tasks for 0.11.0 release

Otto Dassau otto.dassau at gmx.de
Sun Jul 6 07:01:31 EDT 2008 

Hi Lars,

On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:00:13 +0200
Lars Stöwesand <lars at sai.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

> Hi Otto,
> 
> last week I updated the conference section. I also add links to  
> descriptions, presentations, and workshop papers.
> What I would suggest is to:
> - add 2 prominent links somewhere close to the top of the page -  
> "report upcoming GIS conferences" & "Get help presenting QGIS" (both  
> linked to the community-mailing-list)

yes, great idea and maybe also linked to the wiki user page? I agree it is not
always easy to find out where to put what kind of information. Generally this
comes to my mind:

- interactive content should go to the wiki (e.g. coordination of conferences,
  collecting videos, links and other material) 
- News, tutorials and articles should go into the blog (e.g. Gary's FOOS4G 
  article, Release notes, the tutorials, ...)  
- General, first information about the community to whet user's appetite :)  
  (incl. a few nice pictures) could go on the website, but limited, because the 
  aim is to keep the web presence clear.

We should add some notes to the related wiki management pages (user corner,
blog, website).

> - actually, I would like to add some photos of QGIS-users at  
> conferences... but I don't know if Wiki pages are the right place for  
> this. Maybe that's something for the website, what do you think?

Good question. I would link it with an upcoming event/conference and then put it
it into the blog directly or as a link. We could ask QGIS users to take
photographs of QGIS sessions/meetings/events such as FOSS4G in SA, Intergeo in
GER, ... and then make sth. out of it. This would be a great task for the user
corner management I think.

> - short reports from the conferences would be nice too (but I don't  
> know if this is of any interest to the user)

this would be nice as a blog entry and of course users would be interested in
this kind of information to see that QGIS is alive, active, widely supported,
and rocks :-), .... Good example is the FOSS4G article from Gary. You could
coordinate this with Stephan an we could try to find a way how to motivate
people writing short reports (maybe on the user wiki page and from time to time
on the mailing lists). There is the FOSS4G soon and we have also applied for a
small QGIS booth at Intergeo 2008 in Bremen in September. Maybe others are
interested to be there as well and support the project. 

> UsersCorner is a little more difficult... can anyone tell me what the  
> intention of this page was in the first place?
> I think that there are many duplications with the website, forum, and  
> documentation (manual). So, what is unique at this page?
> At many other pages UsersCorner is a part of the forum.
> Maybe it is a place were user can publish about their work with QGIS  
> (where/for what do they use QGIS), organise meetings, collect ideas  
> for further improvement, exchange additional sample data... and so on.  
> Any suggestions are welcome!

see above how (in my opinion) to split information between the portals and
please add some notes to the related wiki pages - UsersCornerManagement, Blog,
Forum, Website at the end of the discussion so we (and the responsible
assistant) finally knows exactly what to do when and how :).

> -have a nice relaxing Sunday!

thanks and have a nice sunday, too!

 Otto

> Lars
> 
> 
> 
> Am 06.07.2008 um 10:54 schrieb Otto Dassau:
> 
> > Dear Community Team,
> >
> > the next release will be on monday 14 July and I would like to add  
> > here
> > a short note about the community-team plans and todos according this  
> > release,
> > so it becomdes clear that everybody knows what to do.
> >
> > a) Documentation (Tara)
> >
> > - we focus on a new documentation for 1.0 release and won't (be able  
> > to) release
> > a doc version for 0.11.0. Current status managed by Tara is  
> > available at
> > http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/ManualReleaseChecklist1.0
> >
> > b) GUI translations (Werner)
> >
> > - Werner manages the GUI translation updates in svn since a couple  
> > of weeks. As
> > Tim wrote on 29 June 2008: today (June 6 2008) he will branch for  
> > release 0.11.0
> > and any translation updates received will from now on be available  
> > only in the
> > upcoming 1.0 release. It seems the updates worked well and several  
> > translators
> > used the chance to update the gui language files.
> >
> > c) Website (Blog/Forum) (Stephan)
> >
> > - The new website is also planned for 1.0 release. Current status is  
> > available
> > at http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/WebsiteManagement
> >
> > @Stephan: I don't know if you have contacted Maning Sambale to  
> > coordinate, where
> > and what to update in the "old" website and blog for the next  
> > release 0.11.0.
> > Can you do this, please.
> >
> > And we should add the results to the wiki. As for the documentation  
> > I added a
> > release checklist for 0.11.0 and 1.0 at CommunityTeamTasks. Can you  
> > please
> > use these two wiki pages and add the todos so we can tick off what  
> > is done and
> > see who is responsible? This will help us to automate a procdure  
> > from release to
> > release.
> >
> > For 1.0 release the website todos are currently available at  
> > WebsiteManagement
> > wiki page, but we should try to put all release version related  
> > tasks into the
> > suitable checklist and use the  WebsiteManagement as a overview and  
> > general
> > introduction site for the website management. Stephan, can you also  
> > do this or
> > tell us if you need help.
> >
> > d) User and Conferences (Lars)
> >
> > There are no direct release related todos here I think, but Lars: we  
> > should
> > start thinking of ways how to make the User and Conferences wiki  
> > pages more
> > attractive and useful for the community and how to better integrate  
> > them into
> > the website/blog/forum. They are currently a little "inconspicuous".  
> > Would be
> > nice to have this more flashy and clearer for the 1.0 release. An  
> > idea would be
> > to provide some ideas on the user mailing list and ask them what  
> > they would like
> > to have and improve.
> >
> > e) Press Center (Sascha)
> >
> > For the next 0.11.0 release it would be a good idea to coordinate  
> > the release
> > announcement with Tim and the release team and take care of it's  
> > translations at
> > the Press_Releases wiki page. You could also ask more people to  
> > translate the
> > text into their languages and send them to relevant mailing lists in  
> > their
> > countries (e.g. Richard Duivenvoorde -> dutch?).
> >
> > These are my ideas for the moment. Should we try to have an IRC  
> > meeting next
> > week to discuss and coordinate the tasks? Apart from this, just  
> > comment this
> > mail or ask, if there are questions so we can use this 0.11.0  
> > release to
> > optimize the community-team processes.
> >
> > And as always, please keep in mind to add and organize important  
> > information in
> > the wiki so we won't forget.
> >
> > kind regards,
> > Otto
> >
> >
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