[Qgis-psc] Draft call for documentation contributors

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Yves and Harrisou

I have drafted a blog article to try to get more documentation help in for the QGIS 3.0 release. Could you guys review it and let me know if there is anything else you would like to add / change (text below).

Also just a reminder that there is budget for  supporting documentation - please use it if you can think of ways that money will productively improve and streamline the documentation process. Andreas can provide more details of available funs if needed. Draft text follows:



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Documentation for QGIS 3.0 - call for contributions!

Dear QGIS users, enthusiasts and fine people out there. QGIS 3.0 is coming very soon....we are in a 'soft freeze' state at the moment while we wait for some critical last pieces of code to get finalised. Then we go into hard freeze and prepare to roll out our next major release. Those of you that have been playing with the '2.99' builds will surely have noticed that QGIS 3.0 is going to feature a huge number of improvements and new features - both in the user interface and in the API and code internals.

But we have a BIG problem:
we need your help to document and describe all those fine new features!

Yes fine reader now is the time to break out of the 'passive user of QGIS' mould you might find yourself in and lend a hand. We have an issue tracker with an issue for each of the new features <https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Documentation/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%22QGIS+3.0%22> that has landed in QGIS 3.0. Even if you do not know how to use our Sphinx based documentation system, you can help tremendously by preparing the prose that should be used to describe new features and attaching it to the issue list linked to above. If you do that, the documentation team can do more editorial work and less  'writing from scratch' work. If you want to see the QGIS Documentation <http://docs.qgis.org/2.18/en/docs/user_manual/> up-to-date for the version 3.0 release, please do get involved and help Yves Jacolin and the documentation team!




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Regards



 



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Tim Sutton
QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair
tim at qgis.org




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