[FOSS4G-Oceania] Draft Open Source Geospatial article for Position Magazine - please review

[Cameron Shorter]

Thanks Alex, John and Adam for your review. You have made some good 
suggestions and I've accepted almost all them.

Dan from Position magazine also provided good feedback on Friday which 
I've copied into this email thread. Dan, I believe we are ready to hand 
over to you. If you make any changes, could you please provide me with 
the final version which I'd like to add to my blog.

Cheers, Cameron

On 6/7/18 3:09 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> I've incorporated your comments. I'd be interested to hear what you 
> think about the revised introduction.
>
> I understand what you are saying about weaving more geospatial into 
> the story, but don't think I can do that easily because I don't have 
> some nice examples at my fingertips to draw upon.
>
> Feel free to talk me today to discuss.
>
> Cheers, Cameron
>
>> On 6/7/18 12:13 pm, Daniel Bishton wrote:
>>> Hi Cam,
>>>
>>> Please see attached. I apologise for the .docx, I was dragged 
>>> kicking and screaming back into a Microsoft-intranet-legacy hell 
>>> when I began this role, an extremely painful transition from a much 
>>> more open and collaborative workflow, in which version control 
>>> nightmares were a thing of the past.
>>>
>>> I've made some initial comments and suggestions on the attached. 
>>> Overall I feel it's a bit broad, if there's a way to relate the 
>>> exposition of open principles to geospatial applications with 
>>> illustrative examples, that would be ideal and would improve things 
>>> a lot.
>>>
>>> I've suggested two whole sections that could be cut in my view, 
>>> however, a more elegant approach may be to cut a bit more from all 
>>> of the sections so that they can still be represented.
>>>
>>> Also, the list of open geospatial products and entities is useful 
>>> but disconnected from the rest of the article. I've made one 
>>> suggestion as to how this could be approached with layout 
>>> (essentially featuring this as a sidebar column along the main 
>>> piece), however there could also be a way to weave these into the 
>>> main piece.
>>>
>>> See how you go, and thank you again for the work on this so far.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> Daniel Bishton
>>> Editor
>>> Position magazine + SpatialSource.com.au
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On 8/7/18 10:25 am, Alex Leith wrote:
> Hey Cameron
>
> I've gone through and made a number of suggestions.
>
> I think the article is great, so well done, and I think it would be 
> best to pass it over to Position folks soon so they can include it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> On Wed, 4 Jul 2018 at 21:25 Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com 
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi folks,
>
>     I've drafted an article for Position Magazine which talks about the
>     benefits of Open Geospatial, leading to a plug for FOSS4G.
>
>     I'd love it if a few of you would be able to give me a review. In
>     particular, there might be a few more projects we should mention
>     about
>     Open Datasets. Maybe say something about AURIN?
>
>     Document is here:
>
>     https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dBwvc6M2fRU7_csK5rh64QscrzrXC4wl2l-gr6uG24o/edit#
>
>     If reviewing, please use track changes in your comments.
>
>     Daniel (editor),
>
>     I realise I'm over your preferred word count. Is that something
>     you can
>     work around, or will we need to reign the length in?
>
>     Thanks, Cameron
>
>     -- 
>     Cameron Shorter
>     Technology Demystifier
>     Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
>
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Cameron Shorter
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