[Live-demo] Bringing OSGeo-Live Quickstarts up to date

[Cameron Shorter]

Software quality on our OSGeo-Live 6.5 release is looking very 
promising, and starting with this release, we hope to start bringing 
documentation quality up one notch, by putting the Quickstarts through 
the same comprehensive review that we have done for our Project 
Overviews, tracking status in ourStatus Spreadsheet 
<https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdGIzd0VLLTBpQVJuNVlHMlBWSDhKLXc#gid=13>.

We see this as a 3 step process:

 1. Projects ensure their quickstarts are up to date, set "Quickstart
    Status"="6.5draft"
 2. A non-project person, runs every step of the quickstart, and makes
    sure it runs ok. set "Quickstart Status"="6.5reviewed".
 3. One of our writers reviews for readability. (I'm volunteering to be
    one of these people). Set "Quickstart Status"="6.5final".

We're looking for are around 10 people who can dedicate a couple of 
hours over the next couple of months to run a few Quickstarts and verify 
they are accurate and understandable. If you can help out, please 
contact me, or speak up on the osgeo-live email list.

We've started a review checklist, and am open to suggested 
improvements:http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Quickstart_Review_Checklist

For the OSGeo-Live 6.5 release, we'd like to update as many Quickstarts 
as we can within the next two weeks, by 4 February 2013.

-- 
Cameron Shorter
Geospatial Solutions Manager
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254

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