[OSGeo-Edu] Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 39 out of 43 excellent project overview docs, ready for the OSGeo-Live DVD - 3 days left

[Charlie Schweik]

OSGeo edu folks - see the below note Cameron posted to the OSGeo 
discussion list (attached below).

[Cameron:] Really excellent work - really important and shows the 
example amd outcome of the "process that works" you were suggesting in 
your email a few days ago. Can we get theseoverview documents listed in 
our educational inventory page [1]? Should a single entry to the entire 
list ( like at [2] ) or one entry to each overview document individually?

[Edu folks:] Education is much more than just software tutorials - we 
all know that. But several in our IRC meeting were pushing for the 
development of some kind of edu documentation template. I find myself 
wondering if one next step for our group, following Cameron's example, 
is to get standard "Introduction and Getting Started with [OSGeo project 
name here]...."  written? Should we? [Votes please]

Finally, I just wanted to note an indicator of the importance of what we 
are doing or trying to do collectively. When I revisited the old 
education inventory wiki page, the number of page visits was close to 
30,000... I then looked at some of the other wiki pages and that 
inventory page visit number was quite high, relative to other pages. If 
we're interested in helping get OS Geospatial technologies more widely 
adopted, our group has an important role to play. We need to continue to 
work on how we move forward collectively.

(More soon on reflections of the IRC meeting/suggested next steps - I 
promise!)

Cheers
Charlie

[1] https://www.osgeo.org/node/add/edu-content
[2] https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/overview/
 


Cameron Shorter wrote:
> I'm really impressed that we will have 39 out of 43 excellent quality, 
> 1 page Overview marketing docs to be included on the OSGeo-Live DVD.
>
> 19 projects have also written a Quick Start to help get new users 
> running with their application.
>
> And I've just received from the OGC documentation for 9 OGC Standards.
>
> We will be cutting our User Acceptance Test release of OSGeo Live this 
> coming Monday 2 August (in 3 days), and would love to see all projects 
> with an Overview document, and as many Quickstarts as possible by Monday.
>
> If you know a little about any of the projects below and could write 
> something up, please speak up.
>
> We have defined step by step guides on writing docs, and include a 
> documented example, defined here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Overview
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Quick_Start
>
> Status of all projects on OSGeo-Live is kept here:
> https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc&hl=en_GB#gid=5 
>
>
> Still missing OverView docs:
> ==================
> GeoServer
> MapTiler
> OpenJump
> uDig
>
> Great docs already written
> =================
> 52°North Web Processing Service
> AtlasStyler SLD editor
> deegree
> GeoKettle
> Geomajas
> GeoNetwork
> Geopublisher
> GMT: The Generic Mapping tools
> GpsDrive
> GRASS GIS
> gvSIG
> Kosmo
> Mapbender
> Mapfish
> MapGuide Open Source
> Mapnik
> Mapserver
> Marble
> MB System
> Octave Mapping Toolbox
> OpenJUMP
> OpenLayers
> OpenCPN
> OpenStreetMap editors and tools
> osgEarth
> Ossim/OssimPlanet
> pgRouting
> Postgres/PostGIS
> QuantumGIS
> QGIS mapserver
> R geostatistics
> Sahana
> SAGA GIS
> SpatiaLite
> Unofficial gvSIG Mobile for Linux
> Ushahidi
> Viking
> Xubuntu
> zyGrib
> ZOO Project
>

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: cschweik.vcf
Type: text/x-vcard
Size: 403 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/edu_discuss/attachments/20100801/c071a63a/cschweik.vcf