= OSGeo-Live Quickstart Hackathon - Wrappup=

18 February 2013

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.

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
* All steps from quickstarts have been updated by the original author,
* The quickstarts have been tested by an independent person,
* And quickstarts have been reviewed for usability and consistency.

And the results:
* at least 24 people joined the hackfest
* Out of 62 Quickstart documents:
 * 40 were brought in line with the latest 6.5 OSGeo-Live release
 * 28 were externally reviewed
 * 12 were comprehensively updated for readability and consistency. These included most of the high profile OSGeo projects.

And what did we learn?
* 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.
* "Many hands might light work". The many contributors ensured we made some great progress on this task.
* 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. 

== Participants ==
Thanks to all the contributors. (I think there are a few more contributors who didn't register)
* Cameron Shorter
* Angelos Tzotsos
* Hamish Bowman
* Brian Hamlin
* Alex Mandel
* Javi Sanchez
* Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
* Sergio Baños Calvo
* Alexander Muriy
* Micha Silver
* Stephan Meissl
* David Mateos Pascual
* Roberto Antolín
* Andrea Yanza
* Javier Luque
* Yansa Tejada
* Agustín Diez
* Henry Addo
* Astrid Emde
* Eike Hinderk Jürrens
* James Klassen
* Argyros Argyridis
* Maria Vakalopoulou
* Alexander Muriy