<div dir="ltr">Hi Cameron and Jo,<div><br></div><div>It looks like you haven't posted this in Slack yet, am I right?</div><div><br></div><div>I think it looks good. My only query is around the stipend statement - I think it's muddying the water here. </div><div>My understanding of the stipend is that writers can choose to either opt-in (or out) when they submit their proposal - and will get paid upon successful completion of their project work.</div><div><br></div><div>This blurb could finish nicely at the word "momentum" and follow up with the hyperlink. <br></div><div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>--------------------------------<br></div><div><br></div><div>Are you a tech writer keen to help build a suite of writing templates, technical instructions, and best-practice guidelines for open source projects? By making an open project in its own right we want to get the biggest reach we can. <br></div><div>Are you interested? We already have 10+ techies and a few writers volunteering, and are building a good momentum. Details at: <br><a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Best_practice_templates" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Best_practice_templates</a><br></div></div></blockquote>-----------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Then I re-wrote it to the below - which may or may not hit the mark:</div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Season of Docs is making us think bigger! <br></div><div>We want to create an open source Documentation Project to establish a library of broadly applicable templates for the open source community.</div><div>Are you a tech writer keen to help build a suite of writing templates, technical instructions, and best-practice guidelines for open source projects? We want to hear from you. </div><div>We already have writers, techies and devs volunteering, so momentum is building. Come and get involved! </div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div>Details at: <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Best_practice_templates" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Best_practice_templates</a></div></div></blockquote></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>It also makes me think that we need a hyperlink that isn't embedded in the OSGeo ecosystem. So perhaps we create some kind of lite landing page first before we spruik - to give folks a place to register interest. Yes/No?</div><div><br></div><div>Also, if I have understood correctly about what we're trying to do...we're gonna need a <b>name </b>for the thing.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 8:30 PM Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Yes Jo, that looks good to send out. It will be interesting to
see if it attracts interest from the writer community.</p>
<p>Cheers, Cameron<br>
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<div class="m_-2019593321400785420moz-cite-prefix">On 14/6/19 8:11 pm, Jo Cook wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi Cameron,</div>
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<div>I'd suggest the following:</div>
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<div>Are you a tech writer keen to help build a suite of writing
templates, technical instructions, and best-practice
guidelines for open source projects? By making this an open
project in it's own right we want to get the biggest reach we
can. <br>
</div>
<div>Are you interested? We already have 10+ techies and a few
writers volunteering, and are building a good momentum, but we
haven't heard from someone wanting to commit to the
SeasonOfDocs stipend yet. Details at: <br>
<a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Best_practice_templates" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Best_practice_templates</a><br>
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Or reach out to me @jo or @cameronshorter.</div>
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<div>Thoughts?</div>
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<div>Jo<br>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 1:18
PM Cameron Shorter <<a href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com" target="_blank">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>>
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Jo,<br>
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What do you think of the message below to put on the
SeasonOfDocs <br>
#discuss slack channel? You could also send to <a href="mailto:seasonofdocs@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">seasonofdocs@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
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Are you a tech writer keen to help build a suite of writing
templates <br>
and instructions for open source projects? There doesn't seem
to be <br>
broadly applicable templates, and we suspect they'll need to
be built as <br>
an open project. Are you interested? We have 10+ techies and a
few <br>
writers volunteering. We haven't heard from someone wanting to
commit to <br>
the SeasonOfDocs stipend yet. Details at: <br>
<a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Best_practice_templates" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Best_practice_templates</a><br>
<br>
Or reach out to me @jo or @cameronshorter.<br>
<br>
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-- <br>
Cameron Shorter<br>
Technology Demystifier<br>
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant<br>
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M +61 (0) 419 142 254<br>
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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
M +61 (0) 419 142 254</pre>
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