[SeasonOfDocs] [OSGeoLive] OSGeoLive QGIS Quickstart draft

Astrid Emde (OSGeo) astrid_emde at osgeo.org
Tue Jul 2 13:26:01 PDT 2019


Hello Andrew,

thanks for rewriting the QGIS documentation.

It looks good.

Is it usual to summarize at each chapter what you learned?
in the document it says:
Congratulations. You can now open QGIS and understand the components of 
the interface.

You added some chapters at the beginning for absolute beginners. Maybe 
we often start and presume that people know more already.
But still Maybe we can skip the welcome screenshot and text about it.

Looks like the following chapters from the current documentation are 
missing in your new one. Do you still plan to work on them? I think they 
are a bit advanced and very interesting for non beginners:
Connect to a PostGIS spatial database
Using the GRASS Toolbox
Using the Processing Toolbox
Importing OpenStreetMap data


What Next?
it is missing - we recommend some ideas for the next steps

As Cameron referred to our docu-template. That is how we did it till 
now. But we can improve the template with the ideas from Seasonof Docs
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/master/doc/quickstart/udig_quickstart.rst

Astrid

Am 01.07.2019 13:30 schrieb Andrew Jeffrey:
> Hi,
> 
> As mentioned last week on the Season of docs list one of the writing
> tasks that the QGIS group has identified is updating the OSGeoLive
> quickstart.
> 
> I have finished the first draft of a quickstart for QGIS LTR 3.4 and I
> would be interested in feedback. At the moment the doc is read only,
> let me know if you would like to contribute and I will add you as an
> editor.
> 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ba9H6gWjtPBKPVgX54KfIySHQp38i1SfNMD9TLF8s7Q/edit?usp=sharing
> [1]
> 
> The current quickstart for 2.14 can be found here for comparison
> https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/qgis_quickstart.html [2]
> 
> Any and all feedback is welcomed, I plan on going back and re-doing
> all the screenshots so that they are a consitent size and scale so
> don't be shy to suggest more, less, or completely new ones.
> 
> I will leave the document up until Thursday 4th July 12:00pm UTC. We
> will then need to start on updating the RST files in the repo and
> submitting back to the project as I believe they have a deadline on
> 9th July.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andrew Jeffrey
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ba9H6gWjtPBKPVgX54KfIySHQp38i1SfNMD9TLF8s7Q/edit?usp=sharing
> [2] https://live.osgeo.org/en/quickstart/qgis_quickstart.html
> 
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