[Live-demo] White papers: in or out of OSGeo-Live?

[Brian Hamlin]

I remain unconvinced here..
Logically, that argument could extend to user interfaces of software,  
the look and feel of all manuals, etc
There is a balance to be struck between building a distribution and  
drawing on the strengths of projects

   -Brian

On Feb 20, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> As yet, we don't have a policy on including white papers in  
> OSGeo-Live, and this close to a release we probably shouldn't change  
> the status-quo.
>
> However,
> For future releases, I suggest that we should not be including white  
> papers unless they are all written in a consistent manner.
> I feel that the greatest value of OSGeo-Live is the impression of  
> quality that we bring when demonstrating our Open Source projects.  
> Part of this impression is achieved through the attention to detail  
> over things like consistency in documentation.
> To achieve consistency in white paper write ups will be a significant  
> amount of work, and as such, I suggest that we should not tackle that  
> problem yet. What we can do consistently is provide links to external  
> resources like white papers.
>
> On 21/02/2011 10:42 AM, Brian Hamlin wrote:
>> Whitepapers are relatively tiny.. How many are we talking about?
>> also, they are human-oriented, condensations of overview and intent
>> The primary purposes of the LiveDVD... ?
>>
>> I suggest they are a clear win in  disk space vs. value
>> Perhaps we could call upon the list again
>>   and make the few tens of megabytes of space needed to hold these  
>> valuable resources
>>
>> best regards
>>   -Brian
>>
>> ==
>> Brian Hamlin
>> planetwork.net
>> OSGeo California Chapter
>> (415) 717-4462 cell
>>
>> On Feb 20, 2011, at 11:58 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>
>>>  As we are getting short on disk space, I suggest that we should not  
>>> download pdf white papers, but rather reference the url on the web.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  -------- Original Message --------
>>>
>>>  Subject:
>>>  [Live-demo] minor ossim install script error
>>>
>>> Date:
>>>  Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:22:03 -0800 (PST)
>>>
>>> From:
>>>  Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>
>>>
>>> To:
>>>  live-demo at lists.osgeo.org
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> OSSIM:
>>>
>>> wget  
>>> http://ossim.telascience.org/ossimdata/Documentation/ 
>>> OSSIM_Whitepaper.pdf
>>>
>>> this fails as ossim.telascience.org no longer exists.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hamish
>>>
>>>
>>>
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