[Qgis-community-team] QGIS 2.0 Training Manual

Tue Dec 17 04:10:52 PST 2013

Thanks a lot Victor and George,

this should be enough to get me started... or at least it will take me a
bit of time to see it through. But hopefully I can start to put my efforts
in the real stuff.

my pleasure to contribute to the project.

cheers,

Eduardo

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:56 PM, George Irwin <george at linfiniti.com> wrote:

> 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
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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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