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

[Cameron Shorter]

Jody,
What would you like to see achieved with the CSS?
If we provide a wish list, people with CSS expertise might find it 
easier to step in and fix a few things for us.

On 19/07/10 16:10, Jody Garnett wrote:
> 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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