<div dir="ltr"><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Harrissou. apologies for the delayed response - I had check the wrong thread for a response.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">My skype is njmc25.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Perhaps we can chat and follow up some time.</pre><pre style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Niall</pre></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 11:22 AM, DelazJ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:delazj@gmail.com" target="_blank">delazj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi Niall,<br></div>Sorry for the late reply.<br></div><br><div><div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">2017-09-24 23:39 GMT+02:00 Niall Conway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:conwayniall@gmail.com" target="_blank">conwayniall@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Harrissou,<div>Thanks for the getting back to me and for filling me in on the challenges which your team faces. I had a look at the list and I agree, it seems like there's a lot of work there. QGIS project is obviously a pretty complex beast!</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></span><div>Yes there's a lot to do if we want a doc that's better
integrated with QGIS Desktop with release better synced with
application's. But what to do are of different levels/types:<br>-
some are easy to fix and "just" need someone to pick them, others
require an advanced knowledge of the doc structure and contents<br>- some require a discussion to setup a guideline and then, it could be straightforward<br>- some are infrastructure issues and require development skills but most of the challenges are of writing skills.<br> </div><span class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>I don't have much document management experience myself but it seems as if you have a Github repo system that works for you - I imagine that you are using an xml to pdf conversion system when it comes to updating the document? </div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></span><div>Not sure that I understand what you mean but you do not need to worry about doc management and format conversion. What often writers have to focus on is to change text/images in the source folder [0]. Then, there are prepared scripts that are in charge of conversion (pdf, html) and push the changes online. I'd not go into details to avoid saying rubbish. If ever you want to delve into details, Richard Duivenvoorde might be your man :-) <a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/tree/master/source" target="_blank">https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-D<wbr>ocumentation/tree/master/sourc<wbr>e</a></div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>I was wondering if you or one of your team would like to Skype some evening so that I could get a rundown on what's involved and to maybe see where I could help. I would probably be of little use in terms of document management, however I might be able to help on the training side. Content development is more of my strong side and I'm always interested in trying to break down concepts and processes graphically. I use a lot of graphic design and video software especially.</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></span><div>It could be possible for me in the upcoming week. Let's organize that.</div><div>As said above, fiiling content (either text or graphics) is what we need the most so, for sure, your skills are more than welcome.</div><span class=""><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'd be happy to tell you more about what i am hoping to achieve (re. corporate online training) and hopefully there could be some overlap with my efforts. I expect that making the QGIS documentation process more manageable and sustainable will be a priority in advance of the 3.0 release..</div><div>Speak soon,</div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></span><div>Let's chat and see how we can improve QGIS Documentation.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Harrissou</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>Niall</div></div><div class="m_7296777267892549422m_-5517851943230752613gmail-m_6507698839407906192HOEnZb"><div class="m_7296777267892549422m_-5517851943230752613gmail-m_6507698839407906192h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 11:11 PM, Niall Conway <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:conwayniall@gmail.com" target="_blank">conwayniall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Thanks for the message. Will have a look and be in touch soon. Cheers, Niall</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div>On Fri, 22 Sep 2017 at 1:09 pm, Niall Conway <<a href="mailto:conwayniall@gmail.com" target="_blank">conwayniall@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div></span><div><div class="m_7296777267892549422m_-5517851943230752613gmail-m_6507698839407906192m_-5376215310004923460h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Hi QGIS community team,<div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">I'm a regular user and big fan of QGIS software - I realise that that the project may not receive the thanks that it deserves however your efforts are appreciated.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Unfortunately, I haven't had a whole lot of time to built into the community in the past but I now's as good a time as any I suppose. A little about myself - I'm from Cork in Ireland and have a background in geography, sustainability, planning and online education however I spend many years in consultancy learning (through trial and error) how to use GIS and how not to use GIS.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">So this has brought me to the current point of starting a business in<span style="font-size:12.8px"> developing</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> the type of online resources which were missing when I needed it most.</span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">So with all this said, I'd be interested in learning about some of the challenges which your documentation team faces in keeping training material up-to-date coming up to version 3.0. I realise that it's early discussions but I'd like to perhaps see if I could tie in what I'm doing with the efforts of the QGIS project and try to give something back also.</span><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Anyway, thanks for reading and I'm glad to make contact.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Best,</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Niall</div></div></div>
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