[Qgis-psc] Re: [Qgis-community-team] GIS Tutorial with QGIS

[Otto Dassau]

Hi, 

I finished the migration of the worksheets to latex and added a PDF version to
the QGIS website together with a link to http://linfiniti.com/dla/. I also
updated the structure of the webpage a bit. 

http://qgis.org/en/documentation/manuals.html

Next steps would be to clean up and resize images to make the document smaller
than the current 5.6 MB. And a html version would be nice as well. I guess we
could discuss this with the documentation team in the next meeting.

latex sources are available here:
https://svn.osgeo.org/qgis/docs/trunk/english_us/gis_introduction

Regards,
 Otto

On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:13:29 +0200
Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> Hi Otto
> 
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Otto Dassau<otto.dassau at gmx.de> wrote:
> > Hi Tim,
> >
> > I created a test version with the first topic for you, so you can have a
> > look,
> > if it looks ok. I think it follows pretty much the look and feel of the OO
> > worksheets. I tried to keep the styles as simple as possible, so we later
> > won't
> > get into too big trouble when we create a html version.
> >
> > http://www.gbd-consult.de/dassau/muell/test_gis_introduction.pdf
> >
> 
> It looks fantastic! Very neat clear and cleanly laid out! Great stuff!
> 
> 
> > Still on the list for all QGIS latex documents is the proper conversion to
> > html.
> > I would propose, once we have migrated the gis_introduction to latex we find
> > a solution for that.
> >
> > If you are all ok with it, I will go on with the migration step by step...
> 
> I'm more than happy, I'm thrilled! :-)
> 
> By the way I tried the open office plugin that lets you export to
> latex and it  produced some so so output. It might be worth using that
> output to cut and paste the general text body into your new templates.
> I think the converted stuff I did is already in our linfiniti SVN
> repo.
> 
> Let me know what I can do to help!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
> >
> > Regards,
> >  Otto
> >
> > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:07:20 +0200
> > Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> >
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> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Otto Dassau wrote:
> >> > Hi Tim,
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:18:43 +0200
> >> > Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> >> >
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> >> >> Dear community team
> >> >>
> >> >> We recently completed a job for the Department of Land Affairs, Eastern
> >> >> Cape, South Africa, to build an educational resource around QGIS. Otto
> >> >> Dassau and myself were the principle authors. The resource also includes
> >> >> screencasts and a custom windows installer for QGIS 1.0 with rebranded
> >> >> splash screen etc.
> >> >>
> >> >> One of the conditions of the contract was that all content should be
> >> >> under an open license (GPLD for documentation and CCSA for screencasts),
> >> >> the idea being that we could integrate the products of this work into
> >> >> the QGIS documentation base.
> >> >>
> >> >> The original work was done in Open Office because I found it easier to
> >> >> get the layout etc I wanted. I am in the process of porting it to LaTeX.
> >> >
> >> > good idea. I would love to see the sources structured in the same way we
> >> > have
> >> > the qgis manual and installation guide. One latex file with an image
folder
> >> > for
> >> > each topic. I can help working with the migration, of course.
> >>
> >> Yes it makes good sense to me to follow the standards you have already
> >> established in SVN. My main query is whether we can replicate the same
> >> look and feel of the worksheets OOo version in LaTeX.
> >>
> >> >
> >> >> I would like to import all of these resources into the QGIS SVN (OOo
> >> >> documents and Latex sources), and move the videos onto the official QGIS
> >> >> web site, as well as pdf versions (see link below).
> >> >
> >> > Maybe it would make sense to leave the original version, also the .odt
under
> >> > http://linfiniti.com/dla and only host and manage the migrated latex
version
> >> > and its translations and extensions in the QGIS svn. Otherwise it would
> >> > exist twice, or do you finally want to remove it all from your server?
> >>
> >> I think once the LaTeX versions are matching the output quality of the
> >> odf's we can get rid of them entirely. No problem to keep them on my
> >> server for now too.
> >>
> >> >
> >> >> Ultimately we would
> >> >> like to see the community team becoming involved with translations and
> >> >> extension of these worksheets. I am also actively seeking funding to do
> >> >> this further on a sponsored basis. The resource is available here:
> >> >>
> >> >> http://linfiniti.com/dla
> >> >>
> >> >> Please let me know your thoughts on my incorporating these materials
> >> >> into the QGIS svn repository (odt. latex docs) and moving the binary
> >> >> products (pdf and mov videos) onto the official QGIS website. One thing
> >> >> I would ask is to be allowed to place the sponsors logo prominently in
> >> >> the resources and on the appropriate web pages.
> >> >>
> >> >> Once the resource is moved onto QGIS.org (subject to your approval) I
> >> >> will start to advertise it more widely to the user community.
> >> >>
> >> >> Best regards
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> >  Otto
> >>
> >> Regards
> >>
> >> - --
> >> Tim Sutton, Linfiniti Consulting
> >
> 
> 
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