Cameron, On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:27 PM, Cameron Shorter <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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? > The idea is to produce a booklet which introduces the most important GIS software available for the linux users. For more technical and updated details, the reference will remain the web site. For example, the Vademecum produced in 2009 (that I linked in the previous email) about the most popular software available in GNU/linux, is re-printed every year for the Linux day which takes place in Italy in October, and I think it is still valid because it is kept very general, maybe only slight modifications are made from year to year. The project of expand the availability of the booklets on various topics such as GIS, cryptography, etc. is now under discussion. The idea was raised by a member of a LUG, who asked the other members if they were available to write one of the booklets about the topic that they like the most. The online repository is currently: http://git.home.trueelena.org/gitweb/?p=docs/guide-foss.git;a=summary > * Who is our target audience? > The target is people about to approach Gnu/Linux world, curious to know what is the offer in term of GIS. It shall be distributed during events such as Linux day, fairs, etc. The source text will be available on the repository under the license CC-BY-SA (most likely), and will be printed in occasion of the events. We are exploring the possibility to leave the last page empty, in order to place there the sponsor which will support the printing. > * Would it be possible to develop a production pipeline which uses > existing Project Overviews and/or Quickstarts (which are maintained) to > create the vademecum? > I will explore also this possibility, perhaps with Luca if he's available. > * 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. > The template is already there, available in the git repository that I linked. It should be the same template of the other booklets. > * 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. > I will surely rummage from the official documentation and see what can I keep and what I should add/put in other terms. Thanks, madi > > > 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 > > > Alan Beccati, PhD > Post-doctoral Fellow > Large-Scale Scientific Information Systems (L-SIS) Research Group > Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH > Research I, room 89 > Campus Ring 1 > 28759 Bremen > Germany > > Office Jacobs University: +49 421 200 3187 > www.jacobs-university.de > _______________________________________________________________ > > Commercial Registry: Amtsgericht Bremen, HRB 18 117 > President & Geschäftsführer Prof. Dr. Heinz-Otto Peitgen > Provost & Geschäftsführerin Prof. Dr.-Ing. Katja Windt > Chair Board of Governors: Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte > ------------------------------ > *From:* [email protected] [ > [email protected]] on behalf of Margherita Di Leo [ > [email protected]] > *Sent:* 27 March 2013 11:32 > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Live-demo] Vademecum OSGeo - Live > > 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 > > -- > Best regards, > > Margherita DI LEO > Postdoctoral Researcher > > European Commission - DG JRC > Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) > Via Fermi, 2749 > I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 > > Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 > [email protected] > > Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may > not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the > European Commission. > > > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing > [email protected]http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demohttp://live.osgeo.orghttp://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc > > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Geospatial Solutions Manager > Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050 > Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254 > > Think Globally, Fix Locally > Geospatial Solutions enhanced with Open Standards and Open > Sourcehttp://www.lisasoft.com > > -- Best regards, Margherita DI LEO Postdoctoral Researcher European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 [email protected] Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
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