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

[Sarah Goodwin]

Sounds really great to me!

On Tue, 10 Jul 2018 at 10:29, Daniel Bishton <dbishton at intermedia.com.au>
wrote:

> Fantastic, thank you again Cam.
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> *Daniel Bishton*
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> *Editor*
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> *From:* Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 10 July 2018 5:13 PM
> *To:* Daniel Bishton <dbishton at intermedia.com.au>
> *Cc:* foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Draft Open Source Geospatial article for
> Position Magazine - please review
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> Hi Daniel, yes, the latest version is at:
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dBwvc6M2fRU7_csK5rh64QscrzrXC4wl2l-gr6uG24o/edit#
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dBwvc6M2fRU7_csK5rh64QscrzrXC4wl2l-gr6uG24o/edit>
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> I've enabled review access to this document for everyone, and if you can
> provide me with a gmail address, I can provide you with full edit access.
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> I've provided some suggested images (with links to the source) which you
> can use. Hopefully the quality is sufficient.
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> On 10/7/18 4:56 pm, Daniel Bishton wrote:
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> Hi Cam, Alex and reviewers –
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> Many thanks for the work and input on this. I’ll review this new version
> shortly.
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> Cam, could you confirm that this is still the correct URL for the final
> draft of the article?
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dBwvc6M2fRU7_csK5rh64QscrzrXC4wl2l-gr6uG24o/edit#
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dBwvc6M2fRU7_csK5rh64QscrzrXC4wl2l-gr6uG24o/edit>
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> Best,
> Dan
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> *Daniel Bishton*
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> *Editor*
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> Position magazine + SpatialSource.com.au
> <http://www.spatialsource.com.au/>
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> *From:* Edoardo Neerhut [mailto:ed at mapillary.com <ed at mapillary.com>]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 10 July 2018 4:53 PM
> *To:* Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Alex Leith <alexgleith at gmail.com> <alexgleith at gmail.com>; Daniel
> Bishton <dbishton at intermedia.com.au> <dbishton at intermedia.com.au>;
> foss4g-oceania at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [FOSS4G-Oceania] Draft Open Source Geospatial article for
> Position Magazine - please review
>
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>
> Nice work on this Cameron. The pitch at the end was tasteful and relevant.
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> Didn't have much constructive feedback but thanks for the good read!
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> On 8 July 2018 at 11:13, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> 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
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> On 6/7/18 3:09 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
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> I've incorporated your comments. I'd be interested to hear what you think
> about the revised introduction.
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> 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.
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> Feel free to talk me today to discuss.
>
> Cheers, Cameron
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> On 6/7/18 12:13 pm, Daniel Bishton wrote:
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> 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:
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> Hey Cameron
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> I've gone through and made a number of suggestions.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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> 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:
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dBwvc6M2fRU7_csK5rh64QscrzrXC4wl2l-gr6uG24o/edit#
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dBwvc6M2fRU7_csK5rh64QscrzrXC4wl2l-gr6uG24o/edit>
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> 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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