Margherita,
I'm interested to understand a bit more about your idea and see how we
could align it with OSGeo-Live.
One of the key success factors we have with OSGeo-Live is that it is
continually maintained and updated. I could list many projects which
attract volunteers or people to create initial documentation, but then
the documentation quickly looses relevance because it is not maintained.
So I suggest that you ask:
* How will the vademecum be maintained?
* Who is our target audience?
* Would it be possible to develop a production pipeline which uses
existing Project Overviews and/or Quickstarts (which are maintained) to
create the vademecum?
* If the use case is substantially different to existing OSGeo-Live
templates and use case, then it might be a candidate for another
documentation template.
* However, also be aware that small, concise documentation is much
easier to maintain than larger docs. Hence, I'd suggest if we are
thinking long term, we should aim to minimise the creation of extra
documentation formats, and try to automatically reformat existing material.
On 27/03/13 21:54, Beccati, Alan wrote:
Dear Margerita,
Looks like a good option for the entire project to have, furthermore
there is already overview material for all applications in English
which gets translated already and that can suit some booklet sections.
You might consider building it directly with the rst based system that
OSGeo already has in place, picking well known sections from the
existing documents and reformatting them into booklet format.
I'm not much deeply into that system however to assist you with the
details, maybe someone with more experience in that part can
investigate feasibility further.
Best regards,
Alan
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Dear all,
an Italian LUG (Linux User Group) is preparing a series of vademecum
in Italian on various FOSS in order to distribute them during
events/conferences. My idea was to prepare a vademecum about the
OSGeo-Live project. The vademecum will be a booklet of 16 pages in A6
format, similar to [1]. I was wondering if you think this kind of
marketing item would be worth to be created in English by the
collaborative effort of people here (who is interested to
collaborate?) and then translated in Italian and other languages, or
else I should just write it directly in Italian.
Thanks
[1] http://www.linuxday.it/2010/docs/vademecumlinuxday2009_1.pdf
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