[Lexicon] [Board] Proposing OSGeo apply for a Google Season of Docs grant
Ankita Tripathi
ankitatripathi.2312 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 15 19:12:19 PDT 2021
Hi Cameron and the OSGeo team,
I am Ankita, a tech writer and have been working with the OSGeo and OGC
team to standardise and polish some of the glossary terms and definitions
for them.
Knowing some amazing people like Reese, Ron, Codrina, Nikos, and Rob, I
think I had a major learning curve in the past 4 months with regards to the
OSGeo community.
This year’s proposal looks amazing and is definitely taking it a step
ahead. I am already working on the glossary template as a pilot project.
Would love to be a part of this year’s Season of Docs to create
cross-organisational glossaries and a template structure in place.
Looking forward to it.
Thank you,
Ankita Tripathi
Tech writer
On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 4:33 AM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dropping osgeo-board from the CC list.
>
> Nikos picked up earlier that we should have a project web page.
> We currently have an OSGeo wiki page for our lexicon committee:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Lexicon_Committee
> I think we can probably create another couple of wiki pages:
> 1. An OSGeo Glossary Project wiki
> + Note, changing the name from "glossary pilot" to "glossary project"
> * Source material:
> +
> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2020/12/halfway-status-glossary-pilot.html
> + https://www.ogc.org/blog/3292
> +
> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WZw1_iAC8uWTqFo335i5h_q8IbEYLqzNRYYWBRNtkd0/edit#slide=id.ga1ec31f923_0_3
>
>
> 2. An OSGeo Glossary Season of Docs Page
> + Cover specifics about our Season of Docs proposal
> + We can primarily base upon our proposal at
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1enUFAZX1srNmZ3oy4rt_gqv8AeCx2tL5bM6ej8kq9N4/edit
> + For reference, here is our 2019 page, which is more than we'll need:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019, primarily based on
>
> On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 02:35, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Cameron,
>>
>> looks like a very good proposal.
>>
>> Board - yes we should vote on Loomio.
>>
>> Astrid
>>
>> Am 14.03.2021 03:36 schrieb Helena Mitasova:
>> > Cameron,
>> >
>> > this is extremely valuable project and a very good timing as we have
>> > just discussed the need to make the categories of software listed
>> > on the osgeo website and osgeo live consistent - it is somewhat
>> > confusing now.
>> >
>> > Although this may be beyond the scope of the project but some
>> > modernization of terms may be needed as well
>> > (e.g. there was a suggestion to replace Desktop with Geospatial
>> > Processing Platform because Desktop is usually only one of several
>> > ways how certain software is used).
>> >
>> > Angelos, board, - given that we have board meeting on March 29 and
>> > this is needed much sooner can we approve this through Loomio?
>> > Angelos may be you can put it up for a vote?
>> >
>> > Thank you all for this effort, Helena
>> >
>> >> On Mar 13, 2021, at 6:28 PM, Cameron Shorter
>> >> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Okay,
>> >> Here is a draft Glossary Season of Docs Proposal.
>> >>
>> >
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1enUFAZX1srNmZ3oy4rt_gqv8AeCx2tL5bM6ej8kq9N4/edit
>> >> [1]
>> >>
>> >> This is based on the following template:
>> >>
>> > https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/org-proposal-template
>> >> [2]
>> >>
>> >> Comments and feedback welcomed.
>> >>
>> >> On Sun, 14 Mar 2021 at 06:33, Cameron Shorter
>> >> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Sending again - this time while subscribed to the OSGeo board list.
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 at 11:20, Cameron Shorter
>> >> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> TL;DR We are looking for OSGeo board approval to apply for a Google
>> >> Season of Docs grant. Approval is required in less than a fortnight.
>> >> Submission is due 26 March 2021.
>> >>
>> >> OSGeo board,
>> >>
>> >> A bunch of us within the OSGeo Lexicon committee [3] would like to
>> >> apply for a Google Season of Docs [4] grant. This would result in us
>> >> being able to hire a tech writer for ~ 3 months.
>> >>
>> >> We're still fleshing out details for the application and scope of
>> >> work, but it is anticipated to involve describing "How to set up an
>> >> interoperable glossary" as well as setting up a few exemplar OSGeo
>> >> glossaries, such as for OSGeo-Live and Geo For All, and ideally a
>> >> few project specific ones too.
>> >>
>> >> Over the next week I'll be drafting a proposal.
>> >>
>> >> As the board, can you please discuss and provide tentative approval,
>> >> pending having a final proposal ready.
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> Cameron Shorter
>> >>
>> >> Technical Writer, Google
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >>
>> >> Cameron Shorter
>> >>
>> >> Technical Writer, Google
>> >
>> > --
>> >
>> > Cameron Shorter
>> >
>> > Technical Writer, Google
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Board mailing list
>> > Board at lists.osgeo.org
>> > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
>> >
>> > Helena Mitasova
>> > Professor, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
>> > Faculty Fellow,
>> > Center for Geospatial Analytics
>> > North Carolina State University
>> > Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
>> > hmitaso at ncsu.edu
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Links:
>> > ------
>> > [1]
>> >
>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1enUFAZX1srNmZ3oy4rt_gqv8AeCx2tL5bM6ej8kq9N4/edit
>> > [2]
>> > https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/org-proposal-template
>> > [3] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Lexicon_Committee
>> > [4] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/timeline
>> >
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > Board mailing list
>> > Board at lists.osgeo.org
>> > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
>>
>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter
> Technical Writer, Google
>
>
> --
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