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Hi Scott,<br>
Thanks for providing some hints at what is coming. <br>
Are you in a position yet to share plans about your schedule and at
what point you would be looking for feedback?<br>
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Warm regards, Cameron<br>
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wrote:<br>
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Dear Cameron,<br class="">
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Thanks for attending the Sydney GeoRabble last night and paying
attention to my talk! As I noted last night, the OGC Membership
will continue to develop Standards according to our process and
the normative publications will remain in a format that is most
compatible with the requirements of our members and alliance
partners. However, we are working toward one or more alternative
publication “styles” and auxiliary material to assist the broad
developer community with implementation of OGC Standards.
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<div class="">We appreciate the offer of including such an
alternative publication style in the OSGeo-Live DVD. Given the
need to ensure that our documentation directly references OGC
and dependent normative resources, it is not practical at this
stage to connect the development of the documents to the
upcoming OSGeo-Live release. We are happy to discuss at a later
stage how we might coordinate as our process matures. In the
meantime, we encourage OSGeo and all our partners to provide
feedback to us as we release these new formats.<br class="">
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<div class="">Good seeing you last night.</div>
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<div class="">Best Regards,</div>
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<div class="">On Nov 30, 2015, at 4:08 AM, Cameron Shorter
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<div class="">The OGC Technical Committee technical
meeting started today, and I had the great pleasure in
meeting many people face-to-face, whom I previously only
knew by email address, as well as catch up with many I
hadn't seen for years.<br class="">
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Of relevance to this thread was that Scott Simmons
presented on his hopes to make OGC standards much more
readable and usable.<br class="">
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Scott,<br class="">
As mentioned, I'm keen to see the OGC documentation to
dove-tail with OSGeo-Live documentation.<br class="">
In particular, I suggest that the OGC might want to
consider using a similar development process to
OSGeo-Live, writing a template, then inviting the
community to help write the documentation, then applying
a review cycle, then offering the docs to be translated.<br
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Community building process is described here:<br
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Our documentation writing process is here:<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Documentation">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Documentation</a><br
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Docs here:<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html">http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html</a><br
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Presentation:<br class="">
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation/index.html#/">http://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation/index.html#/</a><br
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We are in the process of defining what will be included
for OSGeo-Live 9.5.<br class="">
Maybe for this release we can aim to get one exemplar
standard written up, possibly more, which can then be
reviewed and refined for future releases, and used as a
template for other standards.<br class="">
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Warm regards,<br class="">
Cameron Shorter<br class="">
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On 23/11/2015 6:18 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:<br
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">We are starting the
build cycle for version 9.5 of the OSGeo-Live [1]
DVD/USB/VM which will be released in March 2016, ready
for several special events, including FOSS4G-NA,
FOSSGIS (Salzburg, Austria), among others.<br class="">
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We would like to hear from anyone wishing to add new
projects to OSGeo-Live, anyone wishing to extend or
add translations, or anyone who has ideas on how we
should shape the upcoming release.<br class="">
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Key Milestones<br class="">
11 Jan 2016 All new applications installed, most old
applications updated<br class="">
01 Feb 2016 Feature Freeze (all apps updated)<br
class="">
15 Feb 2016 User Acceptance Test (all apps installed
and working)<br class="">
21 Mar 2016 Final ISO sent to printers<br class="">
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About OSGeo-Live<br class="">
OSGeo-live is a Lubuntu based distribution of
Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live
DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeo-Live
to try a wide variety of open source geospatial
software without installing anything.<br class="">
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://live.osgeo.org">http://live.osgeo.org</a><br class="">
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-- <br class="">
Cameron Shorter,<br class="">
Software and Data Solutions Manager<br class="">
LISAsoft<br class="">
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,<br class="">
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009<br class="">
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P +61 2 9009 5000, W <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.lisasoft.com">www.lisasoft.com</a>, F +61 2 9009
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Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
P +61 2 9009 5000, W <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.lisasoft.com">www.lisasoft.com</a>, F +61 2 9009 5099</pre>
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