[Lexicon] invitation to check out a new initiative - OSGeo Geolexica

[Cameron Shorter]

Thanks Codrina,
I can see you are connecting with all the right people.
This early stage of a project, before you have built credibility with a
real deliverable, is always difficult and lonely with lots of setbacks.
One of the lessons you see in open source research is that successful
projects typically do a very good job of making first contributions very
easy. This correlates with psychological research into "Nudge Theory" -
used positively to help populations to stop smoking and to start
exercising, or not-so-positively to ... <add favourite gripe here>.

So why don't we start by adding a tab to our spreadsheet of terms [1] which
just contains:
Term, Description, Project1 (Y/N), Project2 (Y/N)

Ideally we should fill out one project first. Codrina, you might know one
project well enough to do a first pass? It is okay if it is not perfect.

Then we ask Arnika or Naini to send the bulk email to all projects (I can
walk you through the process of using the spreadsheet mailmerge).

Any objections or suggestions to this?

Reese, would you mind setting up the extra tab in your spreadsheet?

[1]
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1keonRLT3chmqlRZsMMF9UaCI_vzNEHmJx6t9LB3jBjM/edit#gid=1083334541

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 20:48, Codrina Maria Ilie <codrina at geo-spatial.org>
wrote:

> Hi, Cameron,
>
> I've reached out to the following people:
>
> Andrea Aime, Jody Garnett, Ian Turton - GeoServer, GeoTools, GeoNetwork,
> GeoNode, JTS, uDig
>
> Markus Neteler, Anna Petrasova, Veronica Andreo, Vaclav Petras, Moritz
> Lennert - GRASS
>
> Matthias Kuhn - QGIS
>
> Pirmin Kalberer - spatialite, QGIS server
>
> Astrid Emde - Mapbender
>
> Johan Van de Wauw - SAGA
>
> Vicky Vergara - pgrouting
>
> Álvaro Anguix - gvSIG
>
> Stephan Meiss - EOxServer
>
> Gérald Fenoy, Nicolas Bozon - ZOO-Project
>
>
> My invitation for contributions were not limited strictly to their main
> OSGeo project, but for any other initiative their involved in, of
> course, in the limit of their availability. At this time, I have no hard
> commitment to share.
>
> A good example from the community why we need this work is this document
> that I've used to exemplify my detailing
>
> https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Terminology_comparison_between_ArcGIS_and_GRASS_GIS.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Codrina
>
>
>
>
>
> On 01/11/2020 00:37, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> > I've reminded myself how to send a mail merge from our
> > osgeolive contacts spreadsheet.
> >
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dem6RYkokaX61N8VcomebtqZvcUP-OOt14jt6GPL2TY/edit#gid=1679238205
> > If we are going to hit our soft release date at the start of Dec, we
> > will need to get an email out in the next day or two.
> >
> > Codrina, who have you connected with so far? Unless someone beats me to
> > it, I'll send an email to the remainder. (Or possibly everyone.)
> >
> > This is what I propose is sent:
> >
> > Hi ${"First"}, I'm wondering if you think we should create a glossary
> > for ${"Application Id"}? If so, we'd love some help. We are looking for
> > someone in the project to review our spreadsheet of OSGeo terms [1] and
> > tick those that are applicable for ${"Application Id"}. You might also
> > have suggestions for extra terms we should add. Is this something you
> > can help us with over the next few weeks?
> >
> > [1]
> >
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1keonRLT3chmqlRZsMMF9UaCI_vzNEHmJx6t9LB3jBjM/edit#gid=1083334541On
> > Wed, 14 Oct 2020 at 19:44, Codrina Maria Ilie wrote: > Hi all, > > I am
> > writing to let you know of a new initiative within our community - > the
> > OSGeo Glossary - led by the Lexicon committee (in formation) with > the
> > scope of defining and managing geospatial terms across communities. >
> > First operative steps have already been made with setting up OSGeo >
> > Geolexica [1] for managing the lexicon database, as well as an initial >
> > load of terms that was done by a bulk load from cleaned terms and >
> > definitions compiled by the GeoForAll group. > > The work is done in
> > collaboration with folks from ISO/TC 211, OGC and > The Good Docs
> > Project [2] that have joined the Lexicon committee, which > is very
> > constructive given their decades long experience in terminology, > as
> > well as helping us with cross-organization alignment of concepts or >
> > avoiding term duplication. > > Gracefully helping us with the groundwork
> > are two experienced technical > writers that I’d like to introduce to
> > our community, Ankita and Naini - > in cc. Their contributions will
> > support us in doing a clean, sharp job > when it comes to the actual
> > process of glossary construction. > > A next big step for the Lexicon
> > Committee is setting up pilot glossary > projects for specific OSGeo
> > projects, irrespective of their status, > incubated, in the process or
> > community. So, if this could be of interest > to you, please let me,
> > Cameron, Ankita or Naini know or by joining and > presenting yourself on
> > the Lexicon mailing list [3] or Slack channel [4]. > > > Cheers and stay
> > safe, > Codrina
> >
> >
>


-- 
Cameron Shorter
Technical Writer, Google
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