[OSGeoLive] Maintenance of OSGeo Live Docs

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Sat Oct 16 12:35:38 PDT 2021


Hi Angelos,
If the OSGeo-Live folks are up for it, I think it will be valuable for the
tech writers to show what they have done, and collect any feedback or
thoughts before going and applying across all quickstarts.

It will also provide the team with some experience working with a friendly
audience within the OSGeo community before starting the process of reaching
out to the 50 other OSGeo projects.

When is the next OSGeo-Live meeting planned? Could our tech writers come
along?

On Sat, 16 Oct 2021 at 00:57, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Nelson,
>
> Sorry for the late reply.
>
> I see the first PR:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/pull/724
>
> Lets get this reviewed and merged. I will have a look during the weekend.
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On 10/12/21 12:22 PM, Nelson Guya wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > Our quickstarts team (Chris Ganta, Gayathri Krishnaswamy, and I) at the
> > Good Docs Project has been reviewing OSGeoLive Quickstarts.
> > We have reviewed and completed the first quickstart (virtualization)
> > updates and we're looking forward to using the template to clean up and
> > update all the other quickstarts.
> >
> > We are proposing a meet-up so that our quickstart team can update the
> > OSGeoLive members and discuss the document with you!
> >
> > Looking forward to hearing from you soon!
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 7:54 PM <labrinos at eled.auth.gr> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Angelos,
> >>
> >> I will do my best to join the meeting.
> >> Thank you
> >> Nikos
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Παραθέτοντας από Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>:
> >>
> >>> 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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