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

[Reese Plews (ISO/TC211 - TMG)]

hello Cameron: 

> 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)

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

not sure what this will give us or how it will help the efforts? i think
we are working towards having a general OSGeo glossary ready within the
next couple of weeks and that will show the project teams what this
group's initial goal is going to be. 

since none of the project teams, if i understand correctly, are reaching
out to us, is there an OSGeo venue where we can reach all of them (like
a monthly project leader meeting?) and present our glossary and the
vision/goals of the Lexicon group? 

if no such group exists, i think we should just move forward with our
work on the OSGeo glossary and then aggressively promote those results
to the project leaders/teams and the OSGeo community. 

when people see the results i think they will understand better how they
can contribute. it will also give us more time to formulate other
options that we can use to engage the project teams in future lexicon
work. 

reese 

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On 2020-11-03 05:31, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> 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
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