[SeasonOfDocs] OSGeo Season of Docs - summary from last week

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi folks, (you are mostly all listed here: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#People_keen_to_take_part 
)

I'm sharing a bit of a summary things happening in OSGeo Season of Docs 
in the last week or so. (I'll start a couple of separate threads to 
address specific topics after this.)

0. Sarah Maddox from Season of Docs presented at a webinar this week, 
and confirmed that they have 50 projects enrolled in Season of Docs, and 
50 writers. There will be one writer allocated to each project. If a 
project drops out, the writer slot will be allocated out-of-hat to 
another project. (So we are guaranteed of one paid writer, but chances 
of getting two paid writers are going to be slim). However, we have high 
quality volunteer writers (all of you) and I expect we will attract more.

1. I've had a chat with Jared Morgan, who is well connected in the 
WriteTheDocs community. It is worth listening to the podcast he 
co-hosts: https://podcast.writethedocs.org/ . Jared is interested in 
being involved (and hopefully will introduce himself to this list when 
he is free next.)

2. I've chatted with Chris Pettit, Ori Guddes, Scott Haken from City 
Futures department at the University of New South Wales (Australia). 
They are building training material which uses QGIS and are looking to 
work out how to get involved. (I'll start a separate thread about 
training material).

3. Sarah Ratner (doing a Phd in Learning Theory) is interested, and I 
should be meeting with her and Sarah Maddox (Google) within the next 
month or so. I'm hoping she will help us link writing templates back to 
educational theory.

4. Hopeful tech writers have started emailing. I can see this could 
start swamping out email list, so have been replying noting our 
selection criteria (volunteers welcomed, only 1 paid gig, and that is 
reserved for a senior tech writer, as per: 
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Selection_criteria_for_paid_role 
)

5. Some of you were starting to look into trying out becoming an "expert 
newbie". It would be good to hear how you are progressing.

6. While I love talking with you all one-on-one, I'm very quickly going 
to become a bottle neck if all the awesomeness you guys are about to do 
needs to involve me. So I encourage you all to start making use of this 
email list. We might later set up chat and/or video conference.

All the best,

-- 
Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant

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