[SeasonOfDocs] What is our vision?

[Jared Morgan]

Yep I agree. Getting this right is super important.

On Fri., 31 May 2019, 19:22 Jo Cook, <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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