[Live-demo] Re: Please give us your OSGeo Live Quick Start documentation this coming week.

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks Cameron;

I do invite anyone with better knowledge of CSS then me (that should
be everyone) to have a review of the template used for the overview
and quickstart. I was not able to get as closed to the OSGeo standard
documentation look and feel as I would like.

It is enough to get us something on screen however.

There was also a two column "overview" example which did not make it
to the email list; the content needed from each product remains the
same.

Jody

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> I forgot to mention that Jody put together some great Quick Start
> documentation, including screen grabs, for FOSS4G, in Open Office format,
> which can be cut and pasted into the OSGeo Live documentation.
>
> I've copied the documentation here:
> ftp://ftp.a2end.com/UPLOADS/FriendlyIntroductionToGeospatial/
>
> The following projects have been covered:
>
> FriendlyTour.odt:
> * GeoNetwork
> * Deegree
> * Mapserver
> * GRASS
> * Open JUMP
> * KOSMO
> * gvSIG
> * qGIS
>
> FriendlyPostGIS.odt
> * PostGIS
>
> FrindlyIntroduction.odt
> * UDig
> * GeoServer
>
> FriendlyEditing.odt
> * GeoServer
>
>
> On 18/07/10 21:07, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>
>> Again with the help of Jody, we have defined the OSGeo Live Quick Start
>> template which I'm hoping most applications will follow.
>>
>> These quick starts are aimed to help a new user try the application for
>> the first time and should describe how to run one core function from an
>> application in ~ 5 minutes.
>>
>> How to write the Quick Start is described here:
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Quick_Start
>>
>> An example Quick Start source is here:
>>
>> https://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/livedvd/gisvm/trunk/doc/quickstart/udig_quickstart.rst
>>
>> I've attempted to make it very easy to write these docs by providing lots
>> of comments and tips. So I'm hoping most projects can create these documents
>> relatively easily.
>>
>> We have a documentation freeze in just over a week, so now is the time to
>> write Project Overviews (mandatory) and Project Quick Starts (highly
>> desirable)
>>
>
>
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