[Qgis-psc] Apply for money from the documentation contribution budget

[Marco Hugentobler]

>She would spend 80 hours work on the manual and we therefore would apply for
>2400 EUR from the budget. Please tell us, if this makes sense to you and
>fits to the way we would like people to apply for money defined in the
>budget.


+1

Marco

On 09.04.2015 19:08, Otto Dassau wrote:
> Hi PSC,
>
> in our calculations for 2015 we have a 5000 EUR budget defined for QGIS
> documentation contribution:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/197JVYgDqkKOAGy_zmxL25Lk4ntjJJLmEGQ6MuCmBjnE/edit#gid=0
>
> Larissa would be interested to work on the QGIS user manual (which she
> already does for several years) and update it as far as possible to 2.8.
>
> You can see the current master document here:
> http://docs.qgis.org/testing/en/docs/user_manual/index.html
>
> She went through the document and identified several topics, such as
>
> * update "What's new in QGIS 2.8" section
> * update "Features" section
> * update "Getting started" section
> * update QGIS GUI and add temporary layer,
> * update screenshots in "QGIS configuration"
> * add Describe Layer Method to WMS in OGC section
> * work on modul descriptions in "Processing providers and algorithms
> * add notes about increasing headers size when working with
>    large features in QGIS Server section
> * document QGIS behaviour on copy string attribute to another
> * add hint about default styles in postgresql
> * unexplained difference between topology checking and geometry checking
> * extend Spatial Query Plugin explanations
> * document better the priority functionality for labels
>    (Labeling -> Placement)
> * improve documentation for interpolation plugin
> * improve documentation for raster terrain analysis plugin, remove duplicate
>    explanations etc.
> * write about styled layer descriptor profile of the WMS
>
> She would spend 80 hours work on the manual and we therefore would apply for
> 2400 EUR from the budget. Please tell us, if this makes sense to you and
> fits to the way we would like people to apply for money defined in the
> budget.
>
> Regards,
> Otto
>
>    
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