[OSGeo-Standards] OGC Documentation and OSGeo Live

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Scott,
Thanks for providing some hints at what is coming.
Are you in a position yet to share plans about your schedule and at what 
point you would be looking for feedback?

Warm regards, Cameron

On 1/12/2015 12:27 pm, Scott Simmons wrote:
> Dear Cameron,
>
> Thanks for attending the Sydney GeoRabble last night and paying 
> attention to my talk!  As I noted last night, the OGC Membership will 
> continue to develop Standards according to our process and the 
> normative publications will remain in a format that is most compatible 
> with the requirements of our members and alliance partners. However, 
> we are working toward one or more alternative publication “styles” and 
> auxiliary material to assist the broad developer community with 
> implementation of OGC Standards.
>
> We appreciate the offer of including such an alternative publication 
> style in the OSGeo-Live DVD. Given the need to ensure that our 
> documentation directly references OGC and dependent normative 
> resources, it is not practical at this stage to connect the 
> development of the documents to the upcoming OSGeo-Live release. We 
> are happy to discuss at a later stage how we might coordinate as our 
> process matures. In the meantime, we encourage OSGeo and all our 
> partners to provide feedback to us as we release these new formats.
>
> Good seeing you last night.
>
> Best Regards,
> Scott
>
> Scott Simmons
> Executive Director, Standards Program
> Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
> tel +1 970 682 1922
> mob +1 970 214 9467
> ssimmons at opengeospatial.org <mailto:ssimmons at opengeospatial.org>
>
> The OGC: Making Location Count…
> www.opengeospatial.org <http://www.opengeospatial.org>
>
>
>> On Nov 30, 2015, at 4:08 AM, Cameron Shorter 
>> <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> The OGC Technical Committee technical meeting started today, and I 
>> had the great pleasure in meeting many people face-to-face, whom I 
>> previously only knew by email address, as well as catch up with many 
>> I hadn't seen for years.
>>
>> Of relevance to this thread was that Scott Simmons presented on his 
>> hopes to make OGC standards much more readable and usable.
>>
>> Scott,
>> As mentioned, I'm keen to see the OGC documentation to dove-tail with 
>> OSGeo-Live documentation.
>> In particular, I suggest that the OGC might want to consider using a 
>> similar development process to OSGeo-Live, writing a template, then 
>> inviting the community to help write the documentation, then applying 
>> a review cycle, then offering the docs to be translated.
>>
>> Community building process is described here:
>> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com.au/2011/06/memoirs-of-cat-herder-coordinating.html
>>
>> Our documentation writing process is here:
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc#Documentation
>>
>> Docs here:
>> http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html
>>
>> Presentation:
>> http://live.osgeo.org/en/presentation/index.html#/
>>
>> We are in the process of defining what will be included for 
>> OSGeo-Live 9.5.
>> Maybe for this release we can aim to get one exemplar standard 
>> written up, possibly more, which can then be reviewed and refined for 
>> future releases, and used as a template for other standards.
>>
>> Warm regards,
>> Cameron Shorter
>>
>> On 23/11/2015 6:18 am, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>>> We are starting the build cycle for version 9.5 of the OSGeo-Live 
>>> [1] DVD/USB/VM which will be released in March 2016, ready for 
>>> several special events, including FOSS4G-NA, FOSSGIS (Salzburg, 
>>> Austria), among others.
>>>
>>> We would like to hear from anyone wishing to add new projects to 
>>> OSGeo-Live, anyone wishing to extend or add translations, or anyone 
>>> who has ideas on how we should shape the upcoming release.
>>>
>>> Key Milestones
>>> 11 Jan 2016 All new applications installed, most old applications 
>>> updated
>>> 01 Feb 2016 Feature Freeze (all apps updated)
>>> 15 Feb 2016 User Acceptance Test (all apps installed and working)
>>> 21 Mar 2016 Final ISO sent to printers
>>>
>>> About OSGeo-Live
>>> OSGeo-live is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source 
>>> Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can 
>>> use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open source geospatial 
>>> software without installing anything.
>>>
>>> [1] http://live.osgeo.org
>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Cameron Shorter,
>> Software and Data Solutions Manager
>> LISAsoft
>> Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
>> 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009
>>
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>>
>

-- 
Cameron Shorter,
Software and Data Solutions Manager
LISAsoft
Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf,
26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009

P +61 2 9009 5000,  W www.lisasoft.com,  F +61 2 9009 5099

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