[Foss4g2013] [OSGeo-Conf] Should we write a FOSS4G Cookbook?

Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepicky at gmail.com
Fri Sep 7 12:05:51 PDT 2012



Dne 7.9.2012 14:58, Jo Cook napsal(a):
> Dear All,
> 
>[ .... ]
> It seems as if the best
> approach might be to put a basic structure up on the wiki, then we can all
> add to it as we think of something appropriate. How does that sound?


I would fully agree with that -

J

> 
> Jo
> 
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The Nottingham team are very keen to capture as many of the lessons learnt
>> from planning and delivering FOSS4G 2013 as possible.
>>
>> We wil be doing the following over the next year
>>
>>    - The majority of our internal communications are being logged in
>>    Basecamp and will be exported for archiving after we shut down the team
>>    - We will be capturing experiences, challenges and lessons learnt as
>>    we go along and sharing them via the blog section of
>>    http://2013.foss4g.org/ (nothing there yet but will be soon)
>>    - Minutes of meetings etc will be available at
>>    http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_2013 along with a summary log of
>>    lessons learnt
>>
>>
>> When we are wrapping up after the event a couple of us (me plus ??) will
>> commit time to transferring any useful content from these resources to the
>> Cookbook.
>>
>> If anyone thinks of better approaches to capturing our experiences chip in
>> with suggestions
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Steven
>> _____________________
>> *
>> Steven Feldman*
>> _____________________
>>
>>
>> On 5 Sep 2012, at 23:34, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>
>> In analysing the downfall of FOSS4G 2012 [1] one of the key lessons that
>> became apparent to me is that we are not very efficient at passing on
>> Lessons Learned from one conference to the next.
>>
>> Could we do a better job of knowledge transfer by building an OSGeo
>> Conference Body of Knowledge? Something like a FOSS4G Cookbook [2]?
>>
>> If so, what should be the scope of the cookbook? Should it only be for the
>> international FOSS4G event? Should it cover regional conferences too?
>> Should it also cover FOSS4G steams in other conferences?
>>
>> Who thinks this idea is important enough that you would like to help write
>> sections of the Cookbook, or help with editing?
>>
>> What format should we use to write the Cookbook? Maybe a wiki?
>>
>> I'm interested to help push this idea forward if we as a community think
>> that there will be value in such a collaboratively edited document.
>>
>> If you have an interest, please respond on the OSGeo conference_dev email
>> list (rather than OSGeo Discuss)
>>
>> [1]
>> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/analysing-downfall-of-foss4g-2012.html
>> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Cookbook
>> [3] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/conference_dev
>>
>> --
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>>
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