| | 1 | = OSGeo-Live Quickstart Hackathon - Wrappup= |
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| | 3 | 18 February 2013 |
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| | 5 | As we are wrapping up the [http://live.osgeo.org OSGeo-Live] 6.5 release, it is worth taking stock of the progress made during our recent [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Press_Release_37 OSGeo-Live Quickstart Hackaton]. This was kicked off by a 48 hour intensive hackathon, followed up by a couple of weeks, addressing issues found. |
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| | 7 | Our aim was to "''... bring OSGeo-Live documentation quality up one notch, by putting the Quickstarts through the same comprehensive testing and review that we have provided for our Project Overviews''". We set up a comprehensive [http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Quickstart_Review_Checklist 3 tier review process], ensuring that |
| | 8 | * All steps from quickstarts have been updated by the original author, |
| | 9 | * The quickstarts have been tested by an independent person, |
| | 10 | * And quickstarts have been reviewed for usability and consistency. |
| | 11 | |
| | 12 | And the results: |
| | 13 | * at least 24 people joined the hackfest |
| | 14 | * Out of 62 Quickstart documents: |
| | 15 | * 40 were brought in line with the latest 6.5 OSGeo-Live release |
| | 16 | * 28 were externally reviewed |
| | 17 | * 12 were comprehensively updated for readability and consistency. These included most of the high profile OSGeo projects. |
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| | 19 | And what did we learn? |
| | 20 | * There is a lot of work involved in reviewing all these documents. We were spending in the order of 2 to 16 hours per quickstart for a comprehensive review. This is quite a bit of time when considering there are 62 documents. |
| | 21 | * "Many hands might light work". The many contributors ensured we made some great progress on this task. |
| | 22 | * We still haven't finished, but we are now in a good position to bring the docs in line for the next OSGeo-Live release, version 7.0. |
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| | 24 | == Participants == |
| | 25 | Thanks to all the contributors. (I think there are a few more contributors who didn't register) |
| | 26 | * Cameron Shorter |
| | 27 | * Angelos Tzotsos |
| | 28 | * Hamish Bowman |
| | 29 | * Brian Hamlin |
| | 30 | * Alex Mandel |
| | 31 | * Javi Sanchez |
| | 32 | * Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas |
| | 33 | * Sergio Baños Calvo |
| | 34 | * Alexander Muriy |
| | 35 | * Micha Silver |
| | 36 | * Stephan Meissl |
| | 37 | * David Mateos Pascual |
| | 38 | * Roberto Antolín |
| | 39 | * Andrea Yanza |
| | 40 | * Javier Luque |
| | 41 | * Yansa Tejada |
| | 42 | * Agustín Diez |
| | 43 | * Henry Addo |
| | 44 | * Astrid Emde |
| | 45 | * Eike Hinderk Jürrens |
| | 46 | * James Klassen |
| | 47 | * Argyros Argyridis |
| | 48 | * Maria Vakalopoulou |
| | 49 | * Alexander Muriy |
