I was wondering why Nelson hadn't received a response to this email thread, and it might be because we had an old email address: l...@osgeo.org instead of osgeolive@lists.osgeo.org.
Seems like I need to go update my contacts, and maybe our web pages need to be updated too. On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at 06:45, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shor...@gmail.com> wrote: > +Codrina Ilie <codr...@geo-spatial.org> +Ankita > <ankitatripathi.2...@gmail.com> +Nikos Lambrinos <labri...@eled.auth.gr> (Who > have been involved with developing a proposed OSGeo-Live glossary and would > be good people to know.) > > Hi folks, > As Nelson mentions, I was impressed with Nelson's stated background in > tech writing and environmental science, combined with his interest in > getting involved in open source in a long term way, and suggested that > maintaining the quickstarts and project overviews would be a great place to > start. > > I see this could be a building upon the prior work that Felicity did with > brining quickstarts up to date > <https://flicstar.com/project-report-for-season-of-docs-2019>. > A good starting point could be to audit all the existing quickstarts. Run > each of them. Make sure they are still up to date and work. Make sure the > screenshots are still valid. > > In a year or so, this could extend to updating our templates to align with > the emerging best practice doc templates which are being developed within > The Good Docs Project. > > I can provide Nelson with some mentoring from a tech writing perspective, > but will have limited capacity to help with the OSGeoLive side of things, > such as reaching out to each project asking for latest updates. > > I have been mostly inactive within OSGeo-Live for the last couple of years. > I'm interested to hear if this plan would work? > There might be some changes which I'm not aware of? > I assume there is still a periodic team meeting? Could you please share > details with Nelson. > > On Thu, 8 Jul 2021 at 19:07, Nelson Guya <nelsonkiman...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> My name is Nelson Guya, a technical writer from Nairobi, Kenya. I >> recently joined the Good Docs Project to help open source projects improve >> the quality of their documentation. >> >> Earlier this week, I had a conversation with Cameron Shorter (cofounder >> and coordinator of OSGeoLive and TheGoodDocsProject), who pointed me to >> OSGeoLive, and we talked about my involvement with the project. >> I am interested in helping out by reviewing and updating OSGeoLive >> Quickstarts and project overviews. My educational background (BSc >> Environmental Science) and years of writing experience will be useful in >> the project in the future. >> >> He, Cameron, has offered to help me get started with managing the OSGeo >> Live Docs. >> >> I plan to be actively involved with the docs while using and implementing >> Cameron's invaluable insights and guidance - as he has worked with the >> project since its inception. >> >> Looking forward to hearing from you. >> >> Regards, >> Nelson Guya >> > > > -- > Cameron Shorter > Technical Writer, Google > > > -- Cameron Shorter Technical Writer, Google
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