[SeasonOfDocs] What is our vision?

[Jo Cook]

As a further vision for the overarching Google Season of Docs project, I
would like to add:

"Lowering the barriers for users to contribute to documentation"

Thanks

Jo

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 9:39 PM Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
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