[GRASSLIST:456] Re: GRASS WIKI thoughts and comments

[David Finlayson]

Well, I didn't really get an answer. I did find the GDF Hannover tutorials here:

http://www.gdf-hannover.de/media.php?id=0&lg=en

Which are very good (thought the English translation could use some
polish). I thought that it might be good to work with these documents.
But there is a translation team in charge of this stuff and I haven't
joined that team, nor do I know if they would welcome posting this
information on the web in a wiki or html document.

Also, there was no answer on the problem of CVS access behind DHCP
connections. So it is impossible right now to work on the HTML
documentation (I cannot do this at work of course).

David

On 3/28/06, Patton, Eric <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I was wondering if you heard anything more on this from the developers. My
> reason for asking is that I'd like to volunteer to help you to upgrade Grass
> documentation, if you would like the help. I had emailed Markus about this a
> long time ago and I didn't really receive much direction on what would be
> the best way to go about it, so the issue kind of died.
>
> Now that there is someone else who seems eager to tackle this problem, I
> think some real progress can be made if there is a coordinated effort.
>
>
> Let me know what you think, and how I can help.
>
> Regards,
>
> ~ Eric
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-GRASSLIST at baylor.edu
> To: GRASS user list
> Sent: 3/21/2006 3:45 AM
> Subject: [GRASSLIST:272] GRASS WIKI thoughts and comments
>
> I tried registering myself on the wiki again because I didn't see my
> name on the User list. It said I was already registered, and in fact,
> allowed me to edit pages. Is the list of WikiUsers functioning
> properly, or maybe I am misunderstanding what that list represents
> (for internal use only?). Also, the little question mark next to my
> name is an indication that my (public) personal profile has not been
> created. I clicked on it and found I do not have permission to create
> a personal profile. Is this normal?
>
> I was going to start hacking away at the tutorial tonight on the Wiki.
> While I was working on the tutorial, I found I wasn't able to edit the
> sandbox (of all places)!
>
> Then, I uploaded an image to one of the direction pages on file
> attachments which I should probably not be allowed to do but it worked
> just fine. However, when I tried to clean up the mess I made of the
> page I didn't have permission to move attachments to the trash, so I
> left a message for the webmaster to clean it up. At least the natural
> order of the universe was restored.
>
> I found the GrassSixTutorial node to be confusing:
>
> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/twiki/bin/view/GRASS/GrassSixTutorial
>
> Is this meant to be a list of links to other tutorials (in which case
> it is circular since some of the outbound links turn around and link
> back to this page). Or is the idea for a real tutorial to grow and
> mature there? In which case, I would like to start building it up.
>
> I also started working my way through the CVS html manual pages with
> the intention of correcting errors and maybe adding some images if
> they would be helpful. But I am behind a DHCP connection and to
> request write access to CVS you request a permanent IP address or
> range (not available from Comcast cable, but I am keeping track of
> addresses I have received).
>
> How can this editing process be made more accessible?
>
> --
> David Finlayson
>


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David Finlayson