[Qgis-psc] Re: [Qgis-community-team] GIS Tutorial with QGIS

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Otto

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Otto Dassau<otto.dassau at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi Tim,
>
> I created a test version with the first topic for you, so you can have a look,
> if it looks ok. I think it follows pretty much the look and feel of the OO
> worksheets. I tried to keep the styles as simple as possible, so we later won't
> get into too big trouble when we create a html version.
>
> http://www.gbd-consult.de/dassau/muell/test_gis_introduction.pdf
>

It looks fantastic! Very neat clear and cleanly laid out! Great stuff!


> Still on the list for all QGIS latex documents is the proper conversion to html.
> I would propose, once we have migrated the gis_introduction to latex we find a
> solution for that.
>
> If you are all ok with it, I will go on with the migration step by step...

I'm more than happy, I'm thrilled! :-)

By the way I tried the open office plugin that lets you export to
latex and it  produced some so so output. It might be worth using that
output to cut and paste the general text body into your new templates.
I think the converted stuff I did is already in our linfiniti SVN
repo.

Let me know what I can do to help!

Regards

Tim

>
> Regards,
>  Otto
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:07:20 +0200
> Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>
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>> Hi
>>
>> Otto Dassau wrote:
>> > Hi Tim,
>> >
>> > On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:18:43 +0200
>> > Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
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>> >> Dear community team
>> >>
>> >> We recently completed a job for the Department of Land Affairs, Eastern
>> >> Cape, South Africa, to build an educational resource around QGIS. Otto
>> >> Dassau and myself were the principle authors. The resource also includes
>> >> screencasts and a custom windows installer for QGIS 1.0 with rebranded
>> >> splash screen etc.
>> >>
>> >> One of the conditions of the contract was that all content should be
>> >> under an open license (GPLD for documentation and CCSA for screencasts),
>> >> the idea being that we could integrate the products of this work into
>> >> the QGIS documentation base.
>> >>
>> >> The original work was done in Open Office because I found it easier to
>> >> get the layout etc I wanted. I am in the process of porting it to LaTeX.
>> >
>> > good idea. I would love to see the sources structured in the same way we
>> > have
>> > the qgis manual and installation guide. One latex file with an image folder
>> > for
>> > each topic. I can help working with the migration, of course.
>>
>> Yes it makes good sense to me to follow the standards you have already
>> established in SVN. My main query is whether we can replicate the same
>> look and feel of the worksheets OOo version in LaTeX.
>>
>> >
>> >> I would like to import all of these resources into the QGIS SVN (OOo
>> >> documents and Latex sources), and move the videos onto the official QGIS
>> >> web site, as well as pdf versions (see link below).
>> >
>> > Maybe it would make sense to leave the original version, also the .odt under
>> > http://linfiniti.com/dla and only host and manage the migrated latex version
>> > and its translations and extensions in the QGIS svn. Otherwise it would
>> > exist twice, or do you finally want to remove it all from your server?
>>
>> I think once the LaTeX versions are matching the output quality of the
>> odf's we can get rid of them entirely. No problem to keep them on my
>> server for now too.
>>
>> >
>> >> Ultimately we would
>> >> like to see the community team becoming involved with translations and
>> >> extension of these worksheets. I am also actively seeking funding to do
>> >> this further on a sponsored basis. The resource is available here:
>> >>
>> >> http://linfiniti.com/dla
>> >>
>> >> Please let me know your thoughts on my incorporating these materials
>> >> into the QGIS svn repository (odt. latex docs) and moving the binary
>> >> products (pdf and mov videos) onto the official QGIS website. One thing
>> >> I would ask is to be allowed to place the sponsors logo prominently in
>> >> the resources and on the appropriate web pages.
>> >>
>> >> Once the resource is moved onto QGIS.org (subject to your approval) I
>> >> will start to advertise it more widely to the user community.
>> >>
>> >> Best regards
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >  Otto
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> - --
>> Tim Sutton, Linfiniti Consulting
>



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