[Qgis-community-team] What next for QGIS docs? - Invitation to comment

[Régis Haubourg]

Hi Charlie,
Every open access initiative will be more than welcome. I think that the
point was that we are already more than open access, but we miss
centralized and cooperative contributions resources to our documentation
and training material already online. We already have peer review made
possible via gitub  pull requests.

Maybe you have more easy to use for writing and review tools in those open
access platforms? As I've never seen those systems, I'd be interested to
know more about it and see if that could low down the skills level required
to write, review and maintain documentation

Best regards
Régis

Le mar. 27 août 2019 à 15:05, Charlie Schweik <cschweik at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> (Cameron: I also wrote this in your google doc as a comment)
>
> From a university's perspective, I think Phil Davis' point about
> incentivizing publications is important.
>
> So perhaps we should try initiating a peer-reviewed like a FOSS4G
> Education Journal, where faculty can contribute teaching materials as
> publications. Recall that we had an OSGeo Journal years ago that kind of
> died out. But maybe the time is to refresh that idea. My library's
> institutional repository under BE Press has a function to support an open
> access journal including chapter review process, etc.
>
> Or start a QGIS textbook in a platform like Rice university's OpenStax (
> cnx.org).
>
> I've always thought (since 2007) the way to do this is to find 2-3 faculty
> who are teaching similar courses and have similar "user centered needs" to
> work or share material that they can use in their courses. For new
> assistant professor faculty, having a repository of well done open access
> tutorials and labs (and datasets) for standard courses such as
> "Introduction to GIS" I think would get adopted and used, because it will
> save these faculty time on teaching material prep as they ramp up their
> research programs.
>
> In short, perhaps we need to identify 1, 2 or 3 QGIS lab-based textbooks
> (e.g., Introduction to GIS, Advanced GIS, or something like that), identify
> 1, 2 or 3 co-editors of those textbooks, develop an outline of those
> textbooks, and then put a call out for writers of various chapters for that
> textbook (or perhaps easier is the open access journal idea above).
>
> -- Charlie Schweik, University of Massachusetts Amherst
>
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