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<p>Our email thread has covered multiple topics, so I've changed the
title and am focusing here just on the question of "Vision":<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 30/5/19 10:00 pm, Jared Morgan
wrote:<br>
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Jared Morgan wrote: Do we have a learning vision defined for the
project? Where would I<br>
> find this?<br>
<br>
Matteo wrote: what do you mean exactly here? The type of
contribution an user wants to<br>
add?<br>
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<div>Jared Morgan wrote: Apologies for not being specific enough
here. What I'm curious about is whether we have any overarching
learning goals that we would like users to get out of existing
training modules.<br>
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And, if the goals are different for new modules, what would
those learning goals be.</div>
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<div>I will be open with you all here: I've not got much
experience with training material creation. It's something I'd
like to learn more about and I think I'm in the right project to
get this knowledge.</div>
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<p>Great question Jared. Research [1] [2] into open source has
identified success metrics to include: <i>"vision" and
"opportunity to identify alignment with the community"</i>.</p>
<p>Defining a vision is harder than asking. As we don't seem to have
a ready answer yet, I suspect we either haven't articulated our
vision, or we have room to improve it.<br>
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<p>I was hoping to cut-and-paste a clear vision from our OSGeoLive
home page, but it appears we have work to do as our vision is
spread across multiple places. <br>
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<p><i>OSGeoLive is a self-contained bootable USB or Virtual Machine
based on the Lubuntu Linux distribution, that is pre-installed
and pre-configured with over 50 of the best GeoSpatial Open
Source applications along with sample datasets. It contains
clear and consistent Overviews and Quickstarts for each
application. This allows people to quickly learn the breadth of
OSGeo software, and is regularly used in workshops and training
sessions or is being handed out at conferences.</i></p>
<p>What is our vision for QGIS and GeoNetwork documentation and this
Season of Docs initiative? Maybe:</p>
<p><i>* Clear and intuitive documentation</i></p>
<p><i>* Which addresses our key user groups (defined as ???)</i></p>
<p><i>* Which covers the breadth of rapidly innovating QGIS and
GeoNetwork software </i><i><br>
</i></p>
<p><i>* ... and what else ??? </i><br>
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<p>[1]
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2018/11/comprehensive-research-into-open-source.html">http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2018/11/comprehensive-research-into-open-source.html</a>
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<p>[2] <a
href="https://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2018/12/catching-elusive-episodic-volunteer.html">https://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2018/12/catching-elusive-episodic-volunteer.html</a></p>
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