[OSGeoLive] Draft press release for OSGeoLive 13.1

[Cameron Shorter]

Okay Astrid,
I've taken a second pass, moved a few things around, picked a few different
words. I reckon it is ready to go now.

On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 at 08:29, Astrid Emde (OSGeo) <astrid_emde at osgeo.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> thanks for the press release. I can publish send the press release, when
> 13.1 is published.
>
> I will send the mail about the archive before - @cameron could you
> please review again. I added more text. And maybe you have a nice story
> about  the early versions.
>
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2089
>
> Astrid
>
> Am 28.02.2020 19:51 schrieb Cameron Shorter:
> > Hey Seth,
> >
> > You did fix bugs, which means we now have a presentation again. I've
> > tweaked the press release to say "thanks to BUG fixes from Seth". Your
> > call as to whether you want to add your last name to the call out.
> >
> > So we now only have one application in the "Domain Specific GIS"
> > section - zygrib. I notice that zygrib isn't included in the metrics
> > page - probably because it hasn't been registered with openhub as a
> > project.
> >
> > I'm guessing this might be one of our obscure projects which has an
> > every decreasing community behind it - quite likely without a
> > community behind it. As such, it is likely a candidate for removal
> > from OSGeoLive.
> >
> > However, in the interim, Seth, if you wish to move zygrib into another
> > category (and remove the "Domain Specific" category altogether because
> > it would now be empty), then I'd be fine with that.
> >
> > However, I'd suggest add it under "Navigation and Maps" rather than
> > "Spatial Tools".
> >
> > Cheers, Cameron
> >
> > On 28/2/20 10:31 am, Seth G wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Cameron,
> >>
> >> I didn't change anything for the presentation - it seems the Sphinx
> >> extension used for the presentation [1] will only work with Sphinx
> >> 1.6.5 (from 2017). Any newer versions of Sphinx will fail to build
> >> the presentation.
> >>
> >> The extension hasn't been updated since 2018, but there are a couple
> >> of pull requests [2] that seem to fix the various issues. We could
> >> create a fork of this project and update it, or see if anyone wants
> >> to become the maintainer. Otherwise, we are stuck with Sphinx 1.6.5
> >> or need to drop the presentation.
> >>
> >> I did fix all the RST errors in the docs except one. The Perl script
> >> that generates the presentation seems to have an error on the
> >> "Domain Specific GIS" section which contains a single item - the
> >> zygrib project. The actual outputted HTML seems fine, but the RST
> >> error remains. Ideally the Perl script would be updated, if not
> >> could zygrib be moved to the "Spatial Tools" category?
> >>
> >> Once the final RST error is fixed I'd propose that any future RST
> >> warnings throw an error in the Travis builds so they are caught as
> >> early as possible in a pull request.
> >>
> >> Seth
> >>
> >> [1] https://github.com/tell-k/sphinxjp.themes.revealjs [3]
> >>
> >> [2] https://github.com/tell-k/sphinxjp.themes.revealjs/pulls [4]
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> web:http://geographika.co.uk [5]
> >>
> >> twitter: @geographika
> >>
> >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2020, at 10:49 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >>
> >>> Once Brian has found a work around for his current network issues,
> >>> and has copied our latest OSGeoLive 13.1 docs to the website, we
> >>> will be ready to put out a press release.
> >>>
> >>> Felicity and I have put together a draft press release. Could
> >>> someone please review.
> >>>
> >>> Seth, I've mentioned you by first name only in the press release.
> >>> Would you mind adding your last name too.
> >>>
> >>> Astrid, are you okay to review and then publish once the docs are
> >>> live?
> >>>
> >>> Press release here:
> >>>
> >>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2090 [1]
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> Cameron Shorter
> >>>
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> >>>
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> >>>
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> > --
> > Cameron Shorter
> > Technology Demystifier
> > Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
> >
> > M +61 (0) 419 142 254
> >
> >
> > Links:
> > ------
> > [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/wiki/Press%20Release%2090
> > [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeolive
> > [3] https://github.com/tell-k/sphinxjp.themes.revealjs
> > [4] https://github.com/tell-k/sphinxjp.themes.revealjs/pulls
> > [5] http://geographika.co.uk
> >
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Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant

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