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<p>Hi Maria,</p>
<p>Great to hear your commitment and availability.<br>
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<p>Yes, many of the volunteers signing up have a QGIS focus -
although many also have a broader OSGeo interest. Notably, Johanna
Botman, Jo Cook and yourself have noted a preference to work with
GeoNetwork which is great.</p>
<p>I suspect our primary focus will be to build an approach to
documentation, which we develop initially for one project (say
QGIS), then test with another (say GeoNetwork), and collate our
experience into best practices that can be applied across OSGeo
(with the help of OSGeoLive) and the greater Open Source
community.</p>
<p>The exact focus of our initiative will depend upon what we
collectively decide in this email list, once people start talking.
(Nudge, nudge, hint, hint.)<br>
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<p>Warm regards, Cameron<br>
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<div>I see many of your emails are very QGIS focused. Does
this mean we decided to focus on QGIS and forget about the
other projects?</div>
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<div>All writers interested or assigned to GeoNetwork[1] can
reach me or Jo and we can help them start and take tasks. But
I am not sure I will be useful on other projects like QGIS.</div>
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<div>Cheers,</div>
<div>María.<br>
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<p>OSGeo Season of Docs folks, (BCCed to a few potential
collaborators),<br>
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<p>As you know, the OSGeo Foundation will be allocated 1
paid technical writer, for equivalent of ~ 3 months
(probably spread over 6), as part of Google's commitment
to Season of Docs [0].</p>
<p>But more valuable are the 18+ serious volunteers (on this
list) wanting to be involved, and 5+ QGIS training
material baselines that we can potentially build upon. [1]
I'm hoping to discuss these baselines within this email
thread and build a collaborative vision which focuses our
Season of Docs direction.<br>
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<p>(Chris, Ori, Scott from Uni of NSW), Charlie from Uni of
Massachusetts, Piers from Gaia Resources, Jo from Austun
Technology, Matteo from QGIS docs, Nick from Uni College
of London, Phil from <span
style="color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">GeoAcademy</span>:
You all have mentioned training material that you might be
able to access. I'm hoping you might restate your ideas
here. (Cut and paste from before is fine).<br>
</p>
<p>My observations so far (based on input so far):<br>
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<p>* We have multiple offers of material to start from, but
less interest in building from someone else's material.</p>
<p>* We all find it hard to sustain the maintenance of
material, acknowledging the rapid innovation of QGIS (and
other OSGeo projects). We'd all love external help
updating our material.</p>
<p>* We are all concerned about the free-rider problem. We
are mindful that collaborators in material development are
potential competitors for students (and hence funding).
Our organisation's reputation is an important part of this
story.<br>
</p>
<p>* We need to balance generic content that is easy to
maintain versus use case specific training for targeted
customers. (Especially important around local maps and
datums used).</p>
<p>* It seems like there is core functionality that we can
probably all agree to use as a starting point for
collaboration. What is it? This might be our best pilot
focus area.</p>
<p>* We could also define a best practices formula for
building training material that we all adopt, addressing
structure, writing style, etc. This is something a senior
technical writer could define, (and could be extended to
other OSGeo projects and to the greater Open Source
community). This would help students who are progressing
through multiple training courses as they'd become
familiar with writing styles. Would you be prepared to
adopt such a guide (assuming it is better than what you
already have)?<br>
</p>
<p>* We'll need to agree on a license that everyone can use,
probably Creative Commons by Attribution.</p>
<p>So for those of you wanting to collaborate around
training material - how can we help you do that? How can
you help others?<br>
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<p>[0] <a
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Leveraging_Google.E2.80.99s_Season-of-Docs"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Leveraging_Google.E2.80.99s_Season-of-Docs</a></p>
<p>[1] <a
href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Interested.3F"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Interested.3F</a></p>
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