[GRASSLIST:96] Re: How can I help?

[David Finlayson]

I agree. Lot's of images are essential. Cartography is visual.

I don't know if I can pull it off by myself. But what I had in mind
was something along the lines of PostgreSQL's documentation:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/index.html

or GMT's:

http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/

(Click the "Docs" link on the side bar)

Postgresql's in particular is nice because it is both a nicely
formatted online source as well as a pdf document that you can
download and print out.

There used to be something like this for grass too. A link to the old
4.0 version is available somewhere on the web site (I found it last
night at home, but can't find it on the web site now...grrr, the wiki
is a bit disorganized!). I was thinking there might be ambiguous
copyright problems with that old document however.



On 3/14/06, Dylan Beaudette <dylan.beaudette at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Congrats on finishing up.
>
> In regards to contributing to the documentation, i htink that the
> addition of figures - lots of figures to the standard manual pages
> would be a tremendous help. That along with some extra examples.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Dylan
>
>
> On 3/14/06, David Finlayson <david.p.finlayson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > First, I just finished my Ph.D. I used GRASS extensively in my work.
> > The new r.rast.arrows feature in CVS alone was a God-send. Thanks to
> > all the developers who made it possible to do some pretty advanced GIS
> > in Linux!
> >
> > So, now that I've settled into the post-doc life, I've got a few hours
> > in the evening to spend time giving back to the GRASS community. It
> > seems to me that one thing GRASS could really use is some better free
> > documentation. The link to documentation from the main page goes to a
> > "Help!" message and links to a list that hasn't been used much for
> > years. The GRASS WIKI might be a good place to do this, but the
> > organization of the wiki is not clear to me. Who is in charge of
> > documentation and where can I help?
> >
> > --
> > David Finlayson
> >
> >
>


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David Finlayson