[gdal-dev] Motion: approve use of GDAL Sponsorship Program funds for 2 documentation contributors
Daniel Morissette
dmorissette at mapgears.com
Wed Mar 12 07:22:36 PDT 2025
+1
Daniel
On 2025-03-12 09:15, Even Rouault via gdal-dev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Seth Girvin (https://github.com/geographika) and Harrissou Sant-anna
> (DelazJ) are interested in contributing improvements to the GDAL
> documentation, one of the most recurring item where enhancements are
> wished from the feedback we got through the User Survey last November.
> Both have experience on documentation of open source geospatial
> software (respectively on Mapserver for Seth and QGIS for Harrissou)
> and are excited to bring it to GDAL. This is understood this will be a
> small part time activity for both of them. Dan Baston has kindly
> agreed to supervise their work, regarding initial setup, review of
> pull requests and filing in documentation tickets for planned tasks in
> the issue tracker. We will also welcome Seth and Harrissou inputs.
>
> A non-exhaustive list of the potential different activities is:
>
> - Adding more examples to existing documentation (typically for
> command line utilities)
> - Systematic addition of docstrings for Python API
> - Adding tutorial-like material (with graphics when appropriate),
> illustrating workflows that can combine several tools to produce a
> desired outcome
> - Adding a user-focused, example-driven introduction to the project on
> gdal.org and github.com/OSGeo/GDAL, ala README of
> https://github.com/qgis/qgis
> - Harmonization of presentation of existing documentation / making it
> more easy to find content
> - Hierarchisation of content in existing documentation. For popular
> tools or drivers, it could probably be interesting to have "basic" and
> "advanced" sections (typically for the GeoTIFF page that could/should
> probably be split)
>
> Motion: approve use of up to 25,000 euros for Seth Girvin and up to
> 25,000 euros for Harrissous Sant-anna from the GDAL Sponsorship
> Program, for the period April 1st 2025 - March 31st 2026, on
> documentation enhancements for GDAL.
>
> Starting with my +1,
>
> Even
>
--
Daniel Morissette
Mapgears Inc
T: +1 418-696-5056 #201
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