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

[Edoardo Neerhut]

Nice work on this Cameron. The pitch at the end was tasteful and relevant.
Didn't have much constructive feedback but thanks for the good read!

On 8 July 2018 at 11:13, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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>
> 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
>>
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>> Technology Demystifier
>> Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
>>
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