[gdal-dev] Motion: approve use of GDAL Sponsorship Program funds for 2 documentation contributors

[Even Rouault]

Motion approved with +1 from PSC members JavierJS, MichaelS, HowardB, 
JukkaR, DanB, DanielM, KurtS and me.

Le 12/03/2025 à 14:15, Even Rouault via gdal-dev a écrit :
> 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 Harrissou 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
>
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