[Live-demo] White papers: in or out of OSGeo-Live?
Brian Hamlin
maplabs at light42.com
Sun Feb 20 16:00:53 PST 2011
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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