Season of Docs Application 2019 - Revision history

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Participation Agreement

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What previous experience have you had mentoring individuals? *

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What previous experience has your organization had mentoring individuals?

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What previous experience has your organization had in documentation or collaborating with technical writers?

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2019 Season of Docs: Mentor Registration

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 <span style="color:blue">Nick Bearman's answer:</span>
 :<span style="color:blue">I have mentored individuals through a range of different aspects, both technical GIS projects and more general work support. I have worked with a range of MSc & PhD students and researchers helping them think about the spatial data needed for their project and how they could apply spatial analysis to help answer their research questions. I have also worked as a personal tutor for MSc students, ensuring they are progressing through their course well, and helping them if they have any difficulties. Much of the time this is providing a listening ear, and knowing where they can go for help. I am not expected to be a specialised in all areas, but I am expected to know what resources are available for them. For the Season of Docs, a key element would be planning what can be done, and ensuring that everyone is aware of what they and other people are doing. As a mentor, it is important for me to ensure all of the participants are happy with what they are doing, and that they know where to go for help, whether it is technical help (QGIS, Git or anything else) or writing help / proofreading.</span>
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 <span style="color:blue">Nick Bearman's answer:</span>
 : <span style="color:blue">I have created a range of Geospatial documentation, including tutorials, teaching materials and general help documentation. I have a education teaching background, and am currently a Teaching Fellow in Geospatial Analysis (University College London) and GIS Trainer & Consultant (Geospatial Training Solutions). When writing practical tutorials, I have worked together with a colleague to develop training material. This required us to work together to ensure the material was consistent in style and approach. We were writing a series of 6 tutorials together and we had to ensure the practicals built upon one another and were written in a similar style. We chose an 'example' practical to base the style on, and negotiated on changes to make that practical work. We also did some extensive planning to ensure that each practical built on the previous one. I have also worked on QGIS documentation, where I contributed to a number of different sections. I based my contribution on the existing style of the surrounding sections to ensure it fitted in with the current documents. I liaised with others who contributed to the documentation to find the correct style for the writing, and made changes in line with their suggestions. </span>
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 ===What previous experience has your organization had mentoring individuals?===
 If you or any of your mentors have taken part in Google Summer of Code or a similar program that mentors individuals, mention this in your answer. Describe your achievements in that program. Explain how this experience may influence the way you work in Season of Docs.
-: <span style="color:#008000">The OSGeo Foundation has over a decade's experience mentoring students as part of Google's Summer of Code, and more recently with the Google Code In. Each of the OSGeo core projects we will focus on has graduated through our stringent incubation process, which usually takes years to complete. Incubation criteria includes demonstrating a healthy and sustainable community (which pretty much guarantees systemic internal mentoring is in place). Refer to the breadth of our mentor's individual experience for more details of the collective experience we bring.</span>
+: <span style="color:#008000">The OSGeo Foundation has over a decade's experience mentoring students as part of Google's Summer of Code, and more recently with the Google Code In. Each of the OSGeo core projects we will focus on has graduated through our stringent incubation process, which usually takes years to complete. Incubation criteria includes demonstrating a healthy and sustainable community (which pretty much guarantees systemic internal mentoring is in place). Refer to the breadth of our mentor's individual experience for more details of the collective experience we bring. https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#People_keen_to_take_part</span>
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 If you or any of your mentors have worked with technical writers before, or have developed documentation, mention this in your answer. Describe the documentation that you produced and the ways in which you worked with the technical writer. For example, describe any review processes that you used, or how the technical writer's skills were useful to your project. Explain how this previous experience may help you to work with a technical writer in Season of Docs.
 : <span style="color:#008000">The Open Source Geospatial Foundation represents many mature projects, most of which have relatively mature documentation and associated documentation teams. Consequently, we are well positioned to tackle some of the hard documentation problems (as explained in our ideas page). Here we outline our experience within the projects we plan to focus on: OSGeoLive, QGIS and GeoNetwork. We are open to picking up more if we attract more volunteers.</span>
-: <span style="color:#008000"> The OSGeoLive core writer team have written Quickstart and Project Overview templates and then mentored techies from ~ 50 projects to write to these templates, and then helped the docs be translated into multiple languages. More details at http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2019/02/inspiring-techies-to-become-great.html. Cameron Shorter, Astrid Emde, and Nicolas Rolandt are mentors on the OSGeoLive team. The documentation team within the QGIS project has produced comprehensive docs. Further, there is an ecosystem of organisations and people who have created workshops and training courses. Challenges for us to address are around improving quality over quantity and improving sustainability. People who have signed up as QGIS mentors include Matteo De Stefano, QGIS documentation lead and trainer; Nick Bearman, a Teaching Fellow in Geospatial Analysis and contributor to QGIS documentation. The GeoNetwork project has some documentation, but it has holes which need to be filled. Jo Cook has signed up as a GeoNetwork mentor and is a power GeoNetwork user, as well as being a leading Open Source Geosaptial community builder and advocate. We additionally have geospatial software users with varying experience in documentation, keen to contribute and be mentored. More at: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Season_of_Docs_Ideas_2019#People_keen_to_take_part</span>
+: <span style="color:#008000">The OSGeoLive core writer team have written Quickstart and Project Overview templates and then mentored techies from ~ 50 projects to write to these templates, and then helped the docs be translated into multiple languages. More details at http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2019/02/inspiring-techies-to-become-great.html. OSGeoLive mentors include Cameron Shorter, Astrid Emde, and Nicolas Rolandt.</span>
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 This description is published on the Season of Docs website.
-: <span style="color:#008000">The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization serving as an umbrella organization for the Open Source Geospatial community. It represents 24 mature (graduated) projects, 13 office community projects, and other non-official projects. It also covers topic and regional community groups, along with the thousands of developers, users, and educators. Within Season of Docs, we propose to focus on a couple of initiatives and projects: OSGeoLive, QGIS, GeoNetwork and maybe one or two others. The OSGeoLive project provides a Linux distribution with ~ 50 open source geospatial applications, along with sample data, project overviews and quick starts, which have been translated into multiple languages. QGIS is a desktop geospatial client and is one of OSGeo flagship projects. GeoNetwork is a Content Management System for Geospatial data. We propose to tackle a small set of documentation challenges as pilots within QGIS and GeoNetwork, and build into templates ready to be used by OSGeoLive for other OSGeo projects.</span>
+: <span style="color:#008000">The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit organization serving as an umbrella organization for the Open Source Geospatial community. It represents 24 mature (graduated) projects, 13 office community projects, and other non-official projects. It also covers topic and regional community groups, along with the thousands of developers, users, and educators. Within Season of Docs, we propose to focus on a couple of initiatives and projects: OSGeoLive, QGIS, GeoNetwork and maybe one or two others. The OSGeoLive project provides a Linux distribution with ~ 50 open source geospatial applications, along with sample data, project overviews and quick starts, which have been translated into multiple languages. QGIS is a desktop geospatial client and is one of OSGeo flagship projects. GeoNetwork is a metadata management system for geospatial data. We propose to tackle a small set of documentation challenges as pilots within QGIS and GeoNetwork, and build into templates ready to be used by OSGeoLive for other OSGeo projects.</span>
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 ===Alternative administrator's email address *===
 This email is not displayed on the Season of Docs website. It is used to program communications and to share program resources on the website.
-: <span style="color:#008000">Matteo Ghetta's email address</span>
+: <span style="color:#008000">Jo Cook's email address</span>
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 ===Alternative administrator's full name *===
 This name is used in communications between the Season of Docs program administrators and the alternative organization administrator. It is not published on the Season of Docs website.
-: <span style="color:#008000">Matteo Ghetta</span>
+: <span style="color:#008000">Jo Cook</span>
 ===Alternative administrator's email address *===

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 This email address is used for contacting your open source organization about Season of Docs and is published on the Season of Docs website. It is used by the Google program administrators and technical writer participants to contact your organization. You are strongly advised not to use a personal email address as the email address for contacting your open source organization.
-: <span style="color:#008000">season-of-docs-discuss@googlegroups.com</span>
+: <span style="color:#008000">SeasonOfDocs@lists.osgeo.org</span>
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 =2019 Season of Docs: Mentor Registration=
-* [https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/mentor-guide Mentor Guide]
+* ''Answers to Google's Season of Docs [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-JjGvaKKGWZOXxrorONhB8qN3mjPrB9ZVkcsntR73Cv_K7g/alreadyresponded Application Form]''
-* [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe-JjGvaKKGWZOXxrorONhB8qN3mjPrB9ZVkcsntR73Cv_K7g/alreadyresponded Application Form]
+* ''See also: [https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/mentor-guide Mentor Guide]''
 Welcome to the 2019 Season of Docs!