[OSGeoLive] Maintenance of OSGeo Live Docs
Codrina Maria Ilie
codrina at geo-spatial.org
Thu Jul 15 12:22:27 PDT 2021
Hi, Cameron,
I've forwarded your first email to Angelos and Astrid. They will get
back shortly.
Codrina
On 15/07/2021 21:55, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> I was wondering why Nelson hadn't received a response to this email
> thread, and it might be because we had an old email address:
> live at osgeo.org <mailto:live at osgeo.org> instead of
> osgeolive at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:osgeolive at lists.osgeo.org>.
>
> Seems like I need to go update my contacts, and maybe our web pages need
> to be updated too.
>
> On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at 06:45, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com
> <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> +Codrina Ilie <mailto:codrina at geo-spatial.org> +Ankita
> <mailto:ankitatripathi.2312 at gmail.com> +Nikos Lambrinos
> <mailto:labrinos at eled.auth.gr> (Who have been involved with
> developing a proposed OSGeo-Live glossary and would be good people
> to know.)
>
> Hi folks,
> As Nelson mentions, I was impressed with Nelson's stated background
> in tech writing and environmental science, combined with his
> interest in getting involved in open source in a long term way, and
> suggested that maintaining the quickstarts and project overviews
> would be a great place to start.
>
> I see this could be a building upon the prior work that Felicity did
> with brining quickstarts up to date
> <https://flicstar.com/project-report-for-season-of-docs-2019>.
> A good starting point could be to audit all the existing
> quickstarts. Run each of them. Make sure they are still up to date
> and work. Make sure the screenshots are still valid.
>
> In a year or so, this could extend to updating our templates to
> align with the emerging best practice doc templates which are being
> developed within The Good Docs Project.
>
> I can provide Nelson with some mentoring from a tech writing
> perspective, but will have limited capacity to help with the
> OSGeoLive side of things, such as reaching out to each project
> asking for latest updates.
>
> I have been mostly inactive within OSGeo-Live for the last couple of
> years.
> I'm interested to hear if this plan would work?
> There might be some changes which I'm not aware of?
> I assume there is still a periodic team meeting? Could you please
> share details with Nelson.
>
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 19:07, Nelson Guya <nelsonkimani63 at gmail.com
> <mailto:nelsonkimani63 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My name is Nelson Guya, a technical writer from Nairobi, Kenya.
> I recently joined the Good Docs Project to help open source
> projects improve the quality of their documentation.
>
> Earlier this week, I had a conversation with Cameron Shorter
> (cofounder and coordinator of OSGeoLive and TheGoodDocsProject),
> who pointed me to OSGeoLive, and we talked about my involvement
> with the project.
> I am interested in helping out by reviewing and updating
> OSGeoLive Quickstarts and project overviews. My educational
> background (BSc Environmental Science) and years of writing
> experience will be useful in the project in the future.
>
> He, Cameron, has offered to help me get started with managing
> the OSGeo Live Docs.
>
> I plan to be actively involved with the docs while using and
> implementing Cameron's invaluable insights and guidance - as he
> has worked with the project since its inception.
>
> Looking forward to hearing from you.
>
> Regards,
> Nelson Guya
>
>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter
> Technical Writer, Google
>
>
>
>
> --
> Cameron Shorter
> Technical Writer, Google
>
>
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