[Qgis-community-team] community team tasks for 0.11.0 release

[Lars Stöwesand]

Hi Otto,

last week I updated the conference section. I also add links to  
descriptions, presentations, and workshop papers.
What I would suggest is to:
- add 2 prominent links somewhere close to the top of the page -  
"report upcoming GIS conferences" & "Get help presenting QGIS" (both  
linked to the community-mailing-list)
- actually, I would like to add some photos of QGIS-users at  
conferences... but I don't know if Wiki pages are the right place for  
this. Maybe that's something for the website, what do you think?
- short reports from the conferences would be nice too (but I don't  
know if this is of any interest to the user)

UsersCorner is a little more difficult... can anyone tell me what the  
intention of this page was in the first place?
I think that there are many duplications with the website, forum, and  
documentation (manual). So, what is unique at this page?
At many other pages UsersCorner is a part of the forum.
Maybe it is a place were user can publish about their work with QGIS  
(where/for what do they use QGIS), organise meetings, collect ideas  
for further improvement, exchange additional sample data... and so on.  
Any suggestions are welcome!

-have a nice relaxing Sunday!
Lars



Am 06.07.2008 um 10:54 schrieb Otto Dassau:

> Dear Community Team,
>
> the next release will be on monday 14 July and I would like to add  
> here
> a short note about the community-team plans and todos according this  
> release,
> so it becomdes clear that everybody knows what to do.
>
> a) Documentation (Tara)
>
> - we focus on a new documentation for 1.0 release and won't (be able  
> to) release
> a doc version for 0.11.0. Current status managed by Tara is  
> available at
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/ManualReleaseChecklist1.0
>
> b) GUI translations (Werner)
>
> - Werner manages the GUI translation updates in svn since a couple  
> of weeks. As
> Tim wrote on 29 June 2008: today (June 6 2008) he will branch for  
> release 0.11.0
> and any translation updates received will from now on be available  
> only in the
> upcoming 1.0 release. It seems the updates worked well and several  
> translators
> used the chance to update the gui language files.
>
> c) Website (Blog/Forum) (Stephan)
>
> - The new website is also planned for 1.0 release. Current status is  
> available
> at http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/WebsiteManagement
>
> @Stephan: I don't know if you have contacted Maning Sambale to  
> coordinate, where
> and what to update in the "old" website and blog for the next  
> release 0.11.0.
> Can you do this, please.
>
> And we should add the results to the wiki. As for the documentation  
> I added a
> release checklist for 0.11.0 and 1.0 at CommunityTeamTasks. Can you  
> please
> use these two wiki pages and add the todos so we can tick off what  
> is done and
> see who is responsible? This will help us to automate a procdure  
> from release to
> release.
>
> For 1.0 release the website todos are currently available at  
> WebsiteManagement
> wiki page, but we should try to put all release version related  
> tasks into the
> suitable checklist and use the  WebsiteManagement as a overview and  
> general
> introduction site for the website management. Stephan, can you also  
> do this or
> tell us if you need help.
>
> d) User and Conferences (Lars)
>
> There are no direct release related todos here I think, but Lars: we  
> should
> start thinking of ways how to make the User and Conferences wiki  
> pages more
> attractive and useful for the community and how to better integrate  
> them into
> the website/blog/forum. They are currently a little "inconspicuous".  
> Would be
> nice to have this more flashy and clearer for the 1.0 release. An  
> idea would be
> to provide some ideas on the user mailing list and ask them what  
> they would like
> to have and improve.
>
> e) Press Center (Sascha)
>
> For the next 0.11.0 release it would be a good idea to coordinate  
> the release
> announcement with Tim and the release team and take care of it's  
> translations at
> the Press_Releases wiki page. You could also ask more people to  
> translate the
> text into their languages and send them to relevant mailing lists in  
> their
> countries (e.g. Richard Duivenvoorde -> dutch?).
>
> These are my ideas for the moment. Should we try to have an IRC  
> meeting next
> week to discuss and coordinate the tasks? Apart from this, just  
> comment this
> mail or ask, if there are questions so we can use this 0.11.0  
> release to
> optimize the community-team processes.
>
> And as always, please keep in mind to add and organize important  
> information in
> the wiki so we won't forget.
>
> kind regards,
> Otto
>
>
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