[OSGeoLive] Maintenance of OSGeo Live Docs

Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
Sun Jul 25 05:51:52 PDT 2021 

Hi all,

Next meeting is on Tue 27 July 20:00 UTC on Jitsi
https://meet.jit.si/OSGeoLive

Does that work for everyone?

Best,
Angelos

On 7/20/21 10:45 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Summary from today's meeting:
>
>     -
>
>     Introductions around the table
>     -
>
>     Nelson Guya (tech writer with environmental science background) is
>     volunteering to help write/update osgeolive docs
>     -
>
>     Suggested that Quickstarts is probably a good focus area, following the
>     audit, then write process that Felicity followed in 2019.
>     -
>
>     Ankita (tech writer) is volunteering to help with reviewing docs, time
>     permitting.
>     -
>
>     Cameron is volunteering to help get Nelson started with first couple of
>     meetings, and then ramp back to answering specific getting stuck questions
>     if needed. He might jump in occasionally when there is a cross over with
>     https://thegooddocsproject.dev , such as sharing templates.
>     -
>
>     Angelos will set up a meeting with the osgeolive docs team and introduce
>     Nelson. First timeslot to be at 20:00 UTC (so Cameron can attend from
>     Australia). After that the timeslot can change to something more convenient
>     for others.
>     -
>
>     Angelos explained the current status of docs and people who should
>     attend. Special call out for Vicky who has been driving docs initiatives.
>
>
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 at 06:09, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Let's continue with today's meeting (It is a standard timeslot for The
>> Good Docs Project).
>> I don't think we can find a timeslot of
>> Africa/Europe/Americas/India/Australia that will work for all.
>> Once Nelson has been introduced to the OSGeoLive team, I can imagine him
>> attending the standard OSGeoLive meeting timeslot (which is 5am for me at
>> the moment and I likely won't attend).
>> Nelson, for your information, Vicky has been a dynamo contributor to docs
>> (and translation) in the past and is a good person to know and team up with.
>>
>> On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 22:44, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Cameron,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the invite.
>>> I am not sure if this time will work for Vicky (Mexico)
>>>
>>> On 7/18/21 11:05 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>> Thanks for your response Angelos,
>>>> I'm wondering what timezones you wish to cover from OSGeo Live's doc
>>> team?
>>>> I'm in Australia, Nelson is in Africa, I know you Astrid are in Europe.
>>> Is
>>>> there anyone you wish to loop in from America?
>>>> Ankita from The Good Docs Project might want to join. She is in India.
>>>>
>>>> Nelson and I are already planning to have a video meeting (URL
>>>> <https://meet.google.com/nzy-hoks-cfb?authuser=0>) on Tuesday morning
>>> in
>>>> Europe/Africa as part of The Good Docs Project.
>>>>
>>>> Would you be able to make this timeslot? I'll send Angelos and Astrid an
>>>> invite to the meeting. Others are welcome to come too if interested.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=7&day=20&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=47&p4=248&p5=102&p6=44&p7=26&p8=136&p9=179&p10=220&p11=224&p12=170
>>>> <
>>> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=7&day=20&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=47&p4=248&p5=102&p6=44&p7=26&p8=136&p9=179&p10=220&p11=224&p12=170
>>>> LocationLocal TimeTime ZoneUTC Offset
>>>> Auckland <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/new-zealand/auckland>
>>> (New
>>>> Zealand - Auckland) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 7:00:00 pm NZST
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/nzst> UTC+12 hours
>>>> Sydney <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/australia/sydney>
>>> (Australia
>>>> - New South Wales) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 5:00:00 pm AEST
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aest> UTC+10 hours
>>>> Brisbane <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/australia/brisbane>
>>> (Australia
>>>> - Queensland) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 5:00:00 pm AEST
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aest> UTC+10 hours
>>>> Tokyo <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/japan/tokyo> (Japan)
>>> Tuesday,
>>>> 20 July 2021 at 4:00:00 pm JST
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/jst> UTC+9
>>>> hours
>>>> Hong Kong <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/hong-kong/hong-kong>
>>> (Hong
>>>> Kong) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 3:00:00 pm HKT
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/hkt> UTC+8 hours
>>>> Mumbai <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/india/mumbai> (India -
>>>> Maharashtra) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 12:30:00 pm IST
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/ist> UTC+5:30 hours
>>>> Athens <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/greece/athens> (Greece)
>>> Tuesday,
>>>> 20 July 2021 at 10:00:00 am EEST
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/eest> UTC+3 hours
>>>> London <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/uk/london> (United
>>> Kingdom -
>>>> England) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 8:00:00 am BST
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/bst> UTC+1 hour
>>>> New York <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/new-york> (USA -
>>> New
>>>> York) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 3:00:00 am EDT
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/edt> UTC-4 hours
>>>> Salt Lake City <
>>> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/salt-lake-city> (USA
>>>> - Utah) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 1:00:00 am MDT
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/mdt> UTC-6 hours
>>>> San Francisco <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/usa/san-francisco>
>>> (USA
>>>> - California) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 12:00:00 midnight PDT
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/pdt> UTC-7 hours
>>>> Nairobi <https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/kenya/nairobi> (Kenya)
>>> Tuesday,
>>>> 20 July 2021 at 10:00:00 am EAT
>>>> <https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/eat> UTC+3
>>>> hours
>>>> Corresponding UTC (GMT) Tuesday, 20 July 2021 at 07:00:00
>>>> <
>>> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210720T0700>
>>>> <
>>> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2021&month=7&day=20&hour=7&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=47&p4=248&p5=102&p6=44&p7=26&p8=136&p9=179&p10=220&p11=224&p12=170
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 18 Jul 2021 at 19:03, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Cameron,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for the introductions.
>>>>> There is no regular meeting around this time (after the 14.0 release)
>>>>> but we could plan a meeting.
>>>>> Since this is mainly related to documentation, I would like to hear the
>>>>> availability of the documentation team before planning this meeting.
>>>>>
>>>>> Would this Tue 20 July at 17:00 UTC work for everyone?
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Angelos
>>>>>
>>>>> On 7/8/21 11:45 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>>>>> +Codrina Ilie <codrina at geo-spatial.org> +Ankita
>>>>>> <ankitatripathi.2312 at gmail.com> +Nikos Lambrinos <
>>> 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>
>>>>> 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
>>>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>>>>> President
>>>>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>>>>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>>> President
>>> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
>>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Cameron Shorter
>> Technical Writer, Google
>>
>>
>>


-- 
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos

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