[Lexicon] invitation to check out a new initiative - OSGeo Geolexica
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 00:59:29 PST 2020
Hi Codrina,
GRASS would be a great test case project, which is one of the largest and
oldest OSGeo projects, and as such is likely one of the projects most in
need of a glossary.
Yes, it would be great to have a meeting with Vaclav. Feel free to loop me
into any conversations you'd like to set up.
I suspect Reese, Ron and Naini would be keen to join too. (It will likely
be difficult to find a timezone which the Americas can make if you loop in
APEC).
Maybe this timeslot (plus or minus a couple of hours):
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?day=6&month=11&year=2020&p1=22&p2=240&p3=47&p4=248&p5=102&p6=44&p7=26&p8=136&p9=179&p10=220&p11=224&iv=0
Feel free to invite me to a meeting, or reach out on slack to coordinate a
time.
An OSGeo code sprint around glossaries sounds like a good idea, if we can
get a clear scope in place, and then have people on hand to help. I'll be
available for a few hours on the morning for the first day (EU time) but
will be busy with another conference and time poor for the rest. But it
would be a great chance to set up a few cross-team discussions. Again,
there are a few in our team who I suspect would be up for helping.
On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 11:58, Codrina Maria Ilie <codrina at geo-spatial.org>
wrote:
> Hi, Cameron,
>
> Yes, I agree with you and even more - especially for the people that
> I've reached out to - I think, they are careful with where they invest
> their volunteering time and we are in tough competition with bug fixing
> and developing new exciting things.
>
> One the other hand, I think we might have a first pilot project and that
> is GRASS GIS. Apparently, working on terminology was among the results
> of a recent usability survey in order to improve and it is not the first
> time it came up. So, I've been emailing with Vaclav and now he is
> raising some questions that require details on the processes used in
> establishing terms and writing definitions, details that I don't know.
> Thus, I would like, with your permission, Cameron, to invite you in the
> conversation, aka email thread.
>
> Regarding your question, I am not sure that - at least in this
> particular case - inserting a new tab into our spreadsheet would be very
> appealing. I mentioned about Geolexica and he was particular excited
> about its languages support.
>
> I would also like to announce that the OSGeo Code Sprint is approaching.
> Due to covid-19, the Athena code sprint was canceled and after a
> community polling, we decided to have a virtual one on 17-19 November. I
> think it would be a good opportunity to connect with people. What say you?
>
>
> Cheers,
> Codrina
>
>
> On 02/11/2020 22:31, 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
> >
> > On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 20:48, Codrina Maria Ilie <codrina at geo-spatial.org
> > <mailto: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
> >
> >
>
--
Cameron Shorter
Technical Writer, Google
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