[SeasonOfDocs] How should we focus OSGeo training within SeasonOfDocs?

[María Arias de Reyna]

Hi,

I see many of your emails are very QGIS focused. Does this mean we decided
to focus on QGIS and forget about the other projects?

All writers interested or assigned to GeoNetwork[1] can reach me or Jo and
we can help them start and take tasks. But I am not sure I will be useful
on other projects like QGIS.

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#GeoNetwork

Cheers,
María.

On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 1:18 AM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> OSGeo Season of Docs folks, (BCCed to a few potential collaborators),
>
> As you know, the OSGeo Foundation will be allocated 1 paid technical
> writer, for equivalent of ~ 3 months (probably spread over 6), as part of
> Google's commitment to Season of Docs [0].
>
> But more valuable are the 18+ serious volunteers (on this list) wanting to
> be involved, and 5+ QGIS training material baselines that we can
> potentially build upon. [1] I'm hoping to discuss these baselines within
> this email thread and build a collaborative vision which focuses our Season
> of Docs direction.
>
> (Chris, Ori, Scott from Uni of NSW), Charlie from Uni of Massachusetts,
> Piers from Gaia Resources, Jo from Austun Technology, Matteo from QGIS
> docs, Nick from Uni College of London, Phil from GeoAcademy: You all have
> mentioned training material that you might be able to access. I'm hoping
> you might restate your ideas here. (Cut and paste from before is fine).
>
> My observations so far (based on input so far):
>
> * We have multiple offers of material to start from, but less interest in
> building from someone else's material.
>
> * We all find it hard to sustain the maintenance of material,
> acknowledging the rapid innovation of QGIS (and other OSGeo projects). We'd
> all love external help updating our material.
>
> * We are all concerned about the free-rider problem. We are mindful that
> collaborators in material development are potential competitors for
> students (and hence funding). Our organisation's reputation is an important
> part of this story.
>
> * We need to balance generic content that is easy to maintain versus use
> case specific training for targeted customers. (Especially important around
> local maps and datums used).
>
> * It seems like there is core functionality that we can probably all agree
> to use as a starting point for collaboration. What is it? This might be our
> best pilot focus area.
>
> * We could also define a best practices formula for building training
> material that we all adopt, addressing structure, writing style, etc. This
> is something a senior technical writer could define, (and could be extended
> to other OSGeo projects and to the greater Open Source community). This
> would help students who are progressing through multiple training courses
> as they'd become familiar with writing styles. Would you be prepared to
> adopt such a guide (assuming it is better than what you already have)?
>
> * We'll need to agree on a license that everyone can use, probably
> Creative Commons by Attribution.
>
> So for those of you wanting to collaborate around training material - how
> can we help you do that? How can you help others?
>
> [0]
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Leveraging_Google.E2.80.99s_Season-of-Docs
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#Interested.3F
>
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> Technology Demystifier
> Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant
>
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