[Foss4g2011] Re: Who is responsible for the FOSSGIS cookbook?

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Cameron,
please check below for comments in English.


Hallo,
hier eine Frage von OSGeo, ob wir unser FOSSGIS Handbuch in Zukunft
zusammen mit der FOSS4G in Englisch pflegen wollen. Mir wäre das auch
recht, weiss aber nicht wie sonst so die Meinungen sind? Bitte um eine
kurze Diskussion und dann Entscheidung. Kann man ja auch später
revidieren, ist nichts in Stein gemeisselt.

On 06.05.2012 12:50, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Arnulf, I've been putting some thought into how we should build and
> then maintain a FOSS4G cookbook. One option is to adopt and then
> adapt and extend the FOSSGIS cookbook. [1]
> 
> Ideally, if we follow this path, then the FOSSGIS community would
> move across to using FOSS4G cookbook as it is created. Do you think
> this would work?
> 
> It would mean that the FOSSGIS community would need to be
> comfortable with a switch from German to English, and then make use
> of a generalised version of the cookbook (probably with some
> specifics relative to FOSSGIS.

Cameron,
I do not think that the FOSSGIS crowd will readily switch to an
English language version, having it in German language makes things a
lot easier for the local committees. We may also have a slightly
different scope because OpenStreetMap is an integral part of FOSSGIS -
which I do not expect to happen with FOSS4G and SotM soon.

> From the FOSSGIS point of view, it will mean a FOSS4G Cookbook
> which grows up will be based upon FOSSGIS experience and as such,
> FOSSGIS will not be faced with possible future conflicts
> translating from one Cookbook to the other.

There are quite a number of "Lessons Learned" pages from previous
FOSS4Gs to build from, so maybe there is no need to adopt the FOSSGIS
model (otoh they already are pretty similar).

> Does this seem like a path that the FOSSGIS community would
> consider? Who are the right people to talk this over with? (You are
> welcome to forward on this email if you think it appropriate).
> 
> [1] http://arnulf.us/publications/fossgis_handbook.html

I fw'd this to the German FOSSGIS list for discussion and will update
you on the outcome.

Basically for a FOSS4G cookbook it would just need a team of a few
people to sit down for a weekend and compile it into a concise and
somewhat more linear context than it is now. This is btw exactly how
the FOSSGIS handbook came to be. I imagine something in the order of a
short "cook sprint" for FOSS4G. My experience is that it would be a
lot more efficient to do this in a face to face meeting instead of
only hacking away at a Wiki from diverse remote places. A selection of
former Local Chairs, Jeff and the odd interested participant come to
mind. But this would need a place to meet and folks to travel which
again makes it more complicated...

Cheers,
Arnulf

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