[Live-demo] Vademecum OSGeo - Live

Thu Mar 28 03:57:05 PDT 2013

Cameron,

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Cameron Shorter
<cameron.shorter at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Margherita,
> I'm interested to understand a bit more about your idea and see how we
> could align it with OSGeo-Live.
>
> One of the key success factors we have with OSGeo-Live is that it is
> continually maintained and updated. I could list many projects which
> attract volunteers or people to create initial documentation, but then the
> documentation quickly looses relevance because it is not maintained.
>

> So I suggest that you ask:
> * How will the vademecum be maintained?
>

The idea is to produce a booklet which introduces the most important GIS
software available for the linux users. For more technical and updated
details, the reference will remain the web site. For example, the Vademecum
produced in 2009 (that I linked in the previous email) about the most
popular software available in GNU/linux, is re-printed every year for the
Linux day which takes place in Italy in October, and I think it is still
valid because it is kept very general, maybe only slight modifications are
made from year to year.
The project of expand the availability of the booklets on various topics
such as GIS, cryptography, etc. is now under discussion. The idea was
raised by a member of a LUG, who asked the other members if they were
available to write one of the booklets about the topic that they like the
most. The online repository is currently:
http://git.home.trueelena.org/gitweb/?p=docs/guide-foss.git;a=summary

> * Who is our target audience?
>

The target is people about to approach Gnu/Linux world, curious to know
what is the offer in term of GIS. It shall be distributed during events
such as Linux day, fairs, etc. The source text will be available on the
repository under the license CC-BY-SA (most likely), and will be printed in
occasion of the events. We are exploring the possibility to leave the last
page empty, in order to place there the sponsor which will support the
printing.

> * Would it be possible to develop a production pipeline which uses
> existing Project Overviews and/or Quickstarts (which are maintained) to
> create the vademecum?
>

I will explore also this possibility, perhaps with Luca if he's available.

> * If the use case is substantially different to existing OSGeo-Live
> templates and use case, then it might be a candidate for another
> documentation template.
>

The template is already there, available in the git repository that I
linked. It should be the same template of the other booklets.

> * However, also be aware that small, concise documentation is much easier
> to maintain than larger docs. Hence, I'd suggest if we are thinking long
> term, we should aim to minimise the creation of extra documentation
> formats, and try to automatically reformat existing material.
>

I will surely rummage from the official documentation and see what can I
keep and what I should add/put in other terms.

Thanks,
madi

>
>
> On 27/03/13 21:54, Beccati, Alan wrote:
>
> Dear Margerita,
>
>  Looks like a good option for the entire project to have, furthermore
> there is already overview material for all applications in English which
> gets translated already and that can suit some booklet sections. You might
> consider building it directly with the rst based system that OSGeo already
> has in place, picking well known sections from the existing documents and
> reformatting them into booklet format.
> I'm not much deeply into that system however to assist you with the
> details, maybe someone with more experience in that part can investigate
> feasibility further.
>
>  Best regards,
> Alan
>
>
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> *Sent:* 27 March 2013 11:32
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> *Subject:* [Live-demo] Vademecum OSGeo - Live
>
>  Dear all,
>
>  an Italian LUG (Linux User Group) is preparing a series of vademecum in
> Italian on various FOSS in order to distribute them during
> events/conferences. My idea was to prepare a vademecum about the OSGeo-Live
> project. The vademecum will be a booklet of 16 pages in A6 format, similar
> to [1]. I was wondering if you think this kind of marketing item would be
> worth to be created in English by the collaborative effort of people here
> (who is interested to collaborate?) and then translated in Italian and
> other languages, or else I should just write it directly in Italian.
>
>  Thanks
>
>
>  [1] http://www.linuxday.it/2010/docs/vademecumlinuxday2009_1.pdf
>
>  --
>  Best regards,
>
>  Margherita DI LEO
> Postdoctoral Researcher
>
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Margherita DI LEO
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