[SeasonOfDocs] What is our vision?

[Cameron Shorter]

Our email thread has covered multiple topics, so I've changed the title 
and am focusing here just on the question of "Vision":

On 30/5/19 10:00 pm, Jared Morgan wrote:
>
>     > Jared Morgan wrote: Do we have a learning vision defined for the
>     project? Where would I
>     >     find this?
>
>     Matteo wrote: what do you mean exactly here? The type of
>     contribution an user wants to
>     add?
>
>
> Jared Morgan wrote: Apologies for not being specific enough here. What 
> I'm curious about is whether we have any overarching learning goals 
> that we would like users to get out of existing training modules.
>
> And, if the goals are different for new modules, what would those 
> learning goals be.
>
> I will be open with you all here: I've not got much experience with 
> training material creation. It's something I'd like to learn more 
> about and I think I'm in the right project to get this knowledge.

Great question Jared. Research [1] [2] into open source has identified 
success metrics to include: /"vision" and "opportunity to identify 
alignment with the community"/.

Defining a vision is harder than asking. As we don't seem to have a 
ready answer yet, I suspect we either haven't articulated our vision, or 
we have room to improve it.

I was hoping to cut-and-paste a clear vision from our OSGeoLive home 
page, but it appears we have work to do as our vision is spread across 
multiple places.

/OSGeoLive is a self-contained bootable USB or Virtual Machine based on 
the Lubuntu Linux distribution, that is pre-installed and pre-configured 
with over 50 of the best GeoSpatial Open Source applications along with 
sample datasets. It contains clear and consistent Overviews and 
Quickstarts for each application. This allows people to quickly learn 
the breadth of OSGeo software, and is regularly used in workshops and 
training sessions or is being handed out at conferences./

What is our vision for QGIS and GeoNetwork documentation and this Season 
of Docs initiative? Maybe:

/* Clear and intuitive documentation/

/* Which addresses our key user groups (defined as ???)/

/* Which covers the breadth of rapidly innovating QGIS and GeoNetwork 
software //
/

/* ... and what else ??? /

[1] 
http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2018/11/comprehensive-research-into-open-source.html 


[2] 
https://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2018/12/catching-elusive-episodic-volunteer.html

-- 
Cameron Shorter
Technology Demystifier
Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant

M +61 (0) 419 142 254

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