[Qgis-community-team] User manual complete!

Tim Sutton tim at linfiniti.com
Tue May 12 05:50:46 EDT 2009


Hi

Great job all! I'll put out the release announcements later today!

Regards

Tim


Otto Dassau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 11 May 2009 23:57:10 +0100
> Carson Farmer <carson.farmer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hey team!
>>
>> I have just now made the final (at least for now ;-)) tag of the QGIS 
>> user guide for version 1.1.0. I have also copied the pdf version to the 
>> server and updated the link on the documentation page, so we're ready to 
>> rock when the latest version is officially released!
> 
> great job from all of you - very good to have the manual ready for the release!
> 
>> I have also created the translation branch for this manual, so we can 
>> probably make a call for translations any time now (Otto, is it ok to go 
>> ahead and put out a call for manual translations?).
> 
> yes you can. I will think about a nice procedure to integrate the new/updated
> parts into the 1.0 manual on the basis of the translated german 1.0 user guide
> and maybe we can have a short IRC meeting about this soon (tomorrow afternoon)?
> 
>> If you happen to be going over the manual and find some glaring mistake, 
>> please don't hesitate to let me know, as we have a bit of time before 
>> the new version of the software is released. On that note, I'd like to 
>> schedule an irc meeting sometime in the next week or two so that we can 
>> discuss what went well, what didn't, and any other thoughts for the future.
>>
>> I am going to be spending quite a bit of time various planes and trains 
>> over the few months, and so will have a tone of time to nit-pick the 
>> manual. As such, I am going to do a complete grammar check on the 
>> manual, moving from start to finish. I didn't have time to do this for 
>> the current version, so any changes I make will have to wait for the 
>> next release... I also have some other thoughts I'd like to share 
>> regarding the manual, so I will really be pushing for a meeting before I 
>> forget them all ;-)
> 
> very good idea. I also have some ideas and we can use it to integrate Bishwarup
> Banerjee and Micha Silver into the documentation team.
> 
>> Cheers, and nice work!
>>
>> Carson
> 
> thanks!
>  Otto
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