[SeasonOfDocs] A few things this week

[Cameron Shorter]

Reporting on a few things this week and some ideas to move toward:

* Felicity, Brian and Byron have joined us. Welcome.

* Andrew has been looking into Getting Started with QGIS. Has worked out 
an approach with Jared. Andrew, I suggest sending a recap of your plan, 
and how people can review your material.

* Jo has found people to help with GeoNetwork docs. Great, I suggest 
inviting them to introduce themselves to this list and add their names 
to https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Interested.3F 
so we can find each other, and demonstrate the momentum we are 
collecting to potential collaborators.

* Jo, as we discussed, I think we have sufficient momentum to kickoff a 
GeoNetwork docs kickoff meeting. As you probably know most of the people 
involved, would you mind setting it up, starting with a separate email 
thread to see who would like to join and what timezones they are in?

* Liam, Belinda, Felicity have been having a crack at starting 
OSGeoLive/QGIS docs. I'm thinking it might be useful to set up a meeting 
next week to see what hurdles you are tripping over and see if we can 
collectively help with that.

* I've been looking around for best practices in writing tech/open 
source docs, and while I've found lots of individual suggestions, there 
doesn't seem to be a central guide that is collaboratively maintained 
and can be referenced. I think we are going to need to set this up as a 
stand-alone open source project in its own right. I'm going to research 
more about this over the next few weeks.

* In the next couple of weeks we should restart the conversation around 
building tutorial material (a couple of people are back from other 
commitments).

* While we have attracted lots of volunteers, (thanks to all of you), we 
haven't had many experienced SeasonOfDocs writers reach out to us yet. 
Jo and I had a chat about this, and plan to reach out to the tech 
writing community and see if we can stir up some interest.

So have a think about what you might want to get involved in, maybe 
mention it here, or come along to online meetings which we should be 
kicking off soon.

Cheers,

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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant

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