[SeasonOfDocs] TheGoodDocsProject weekly meeting minutes

Jo Cook jo.k.cook at gmail.com
Tue Aug 13 23:49:44 PDT 2019


Hi All,

As an addendum to the minutes, I took an action to find some ideas for
naming conventions, based on a very sensible article I read recently but
then promptly forgot about. I'll start a new thread about that when I get
chance.

Jo

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 7:19 AM Felicity Brand <felicitybrand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sorry I missed the meeting this morning.
>
> Regarding the final point on your email, I added the word "project" to our
> .io so it's now: thegooddocsproject.github.io
> I'm assuming this will have broken something but perhaps not.
>
> Felicity
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 9:10 AM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> (Copied from memory, so possibly lacking some things).
>>
>> Present:
>>
>> Erin McKean
>> Cameron Shorter
>> Jo Cook
>> Sanket Totewar
>> Clarence Cromwell
>> Jennifer Rondeau
>>
>> Licensing:
>>
>> * Agreed to use DCO instead of CLA (to reduce contribution overhead)
>> Action on Cameron to formalise/finalise with motion to list
>> Action on Erin to ask Google legal if legal are prepared to share their
>> recommendations
>>
>> * Erin has set up a Probot tool on our templates respository.
>> Action on Erin to share details.
>> Action on Cameron and others to test pull requests with and without a
>> signature.
>>
>> Email list:
>>
>> * Sanket / Jo discussed pros of Git Discussions
>> * Jo noted concerns about possible need for an exit strategy to another
>> system in future. Noted there is an API to export archives. This is a
>> risk and might be messy, but it looks to be a suitable risk.
>> * Action on Jo and Sanket to explain their reasoning for suggesting Git
>> Discussions
>> * Action on Sanket to raise a motion to set up Git Discussions
>>
>> Logo update:
>>
>> * General support for Erin's docypus logo ideas
>> * Cameron note: make sure we have a sustainable logo, which doesn't
>> depend upon continual funding and updating.
>> * Action: Erin to go ahead and use a Google designer to make a docypus
>> options to be selected by committee. Erin to lead this initiative and
>> only need refer to committee as required, and for final decision on logo
>> options.
>>
>> Decision log:
>>
>> * Erin has provided a decision log:
>> https://github.com/thegooddocsproject/governance/wiki/Decision-Log-2019
>> * Action on everyone to review and provide feedback by next week
>>
>> Docsy website:
>>
>> * A few positive votes for using docsy, no negative. (Action on Erin to
>> call this motion closed on email)
>> * Action on Sanket to share extra insights he has
>> * Action on Erin to go ahead and set up.
>>
>> Style guide / Template naming convensions
>>
>> * Rough concensus to go with Microsoft style guide (at least for the
>> moment) for GoodDocsProject.
>> * Action on Clarence to draft up a CONTRIBUTING.md doc, probably in
>> Google Docs, for review. To be discussed at next week's meeting.
>>
>> SeasonOfDocs
>>
>> * Felicity is about to start writing Quickstarts for OSGeoLive as part
>> of SeasonOfDocs
>> * Erin doesn't have a Quickstart template available yet to share
>> * (Becky do you a quickstart template?)
>> * We do have legacy OSGeoLive Quickstart template material
>> * Jo suggests making use of QGIS/GeoNetwork Quickstarts which were
>> updated for latest OSGeoLive release
>> * Suggestion we collectively build this template soon. I don't think
>> anyone picked up this action
>>
>> TheGoodDocsProject vs TheGoodDocs
>>
>> * We have a mismatch between https://thegooddocsproject.dev/ and
>> https://github.com/thegooddocsproject/thegooddocs.github.io
>> * We should align these two, probably in github
>> * Someone want to pick up this task?
>>
>>
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>> Technology Demystifier
>> Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
>>
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