[Qgis-community-team] QGIS 2.0 Training Manual

[George Irwin]

Hi Eduardo,

Thanks very much for getting in touch, and thank you for helping with the manual - much appreciated!

At the moment, the plan is that I will update all the screenshots for the manual so that there visual consistency and also consistent data being displayed. But there is lots of work to be done on the text content and updating the lessons. If you take a look at the Issues page of the Github repository (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues?state=open), you’ll see the modules which still need work (i.e. from module 7 up). If there’s a specific module you’d like to work on, please click on the relevant issue and add a comment to describe what you plan to update. Don’t worry about updating screenshots though - I will come along later and update them to match your instructional changes.

I see Victor has kindly just emailed you regarding git and forking the QGIS-Documentation repository - once you’ve forked the repository on github and made changes (on the manual_en_v2.0 branch), you can then submit a pull request and we can then merge your changes into the original repository.

If you need help getting to grips with git, this question on StackOverflow has lots of links to useful resources. Otherwise, feel free to ask me!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/315911/git-for-beginners-the-definitive-practical-guide

Thanks again for the help and please do drop me an email if you need any help with anything.

Yours,

George


George Irwin
Project and Client Manager
Linfiniti Consulting
http://www.linfiniti.com
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On 17 Dec 2013, at 12:33 , Eduardo Gonzalez <eg at gismood.com> wrote:

> Hello George,
> 
> during this Autumn we have been planning a project to develop forestry related QGIS training materials which we is planned to be contributed to the QGIS community. I had some discussions about this with Tim back in September.  Included in this project is the allocation of worktime to help updating the QGIS training manual to v2.0. The project is bound to start in January but I can start to work on it right away. Actually I thought a while ago about getting used to the github environment but as Johanna, I have no experience with it and got puzzled when I installed it... help with how to get started on this side would be really appreciated. On my side, I have a long experience in developing GIS training materials and teaching, past three years using QGIS. Also I use QGIS in a windows computer... how does this affect in developing the materials or using github (I heard it is not so nice in windows...).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Eduardo
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:47 PM, George Irwin <george at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> Hi Johanna,
> 
> Thanks very much for the offer of assistance - it is much appreciated! We aren’t at the stage of proof-reading yet, but it won’t be long before we are, at which point I’ll certainly be in touch and will help get you up and running. Perhaps in the meantime you could give me your thoughts on the structure/content of the existing training manual (http://manual.linfiniti.com)?
> 
> Thanks very much
> 
> George
> 
> 
> 
> On 25 Nov 2013, at 23:24 , Johanna.Botman at griffith.nsw.gov.au wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hi George,
> >
> > I've read your email to the QGIS list about developing the training manual
> > and want to offer to help.
> >
> > I have an extensive background in education and in writing training
> > materials. I am fairly new to GIS and to QGIS, but I love learning and
> > testing boundaries!
> >
> > Where I think I can help is in the editing and proof reading and helping
> > to tie it all together when it looks and feels like a dog's breakfast.
> >
> > I'll need some instructions on how to do the git hub thing - I've not used
> > that before.
> >
> > I have my manager's approval to assist using some work time and I am happy
> > to do some of this outside of work. I think it is important.
> >
> > My personal email address is johanna at jbotman.com
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