As you may know, OSGeo Live is participating in the Google Season of Docs [1]. I am one of your assigned Technical Writers, Felicity Brand, and I'm working on a project to review the OSGeoLive Quick Starts.

== Quick Starts ==

I have reviewed all 50 and scored them according to the existing Quick Start template [2]. You can take a look at the initial status report [3].
In order to help the community improve their Quick Start documentation, I am going to review and improve the template. It looks pretty good and I don't anticipate major changes but I would like to take the opportunity to develop two different versions of the template to cater for the difference in projects.
One version for any software that has a graphical user interface (GUI) including:
* Desktop 
* Browser-based
* Nav and maps
* Domain specific
Another version for any software that uses the command line interface (CLI) including:
* Web service
* Data stores
* Spatial tools
* Libraries

I anticipate having these ready by 3 October 2019 and at that point in time I'll be asking for help from all of you.

== Style guide ==
One of the things we need is a consistent writing style and that means we should adopt a style guide. I propose the Google style guide [4] but there is also Microsoft and Apple. Do people have strong opinions about this? 

== Glossary ==
In the meantime, we have identified a need for a glossary that encompasses OSGeo Live as a whole. Many of the projects have their own glossary and there is some value in collating these. I have started a Google sheet with the initial framework [5]. If you can please jump in and add entries for terminology used within your project, that would be appreciated. Alternatively if you can point me at your existing glossary, I can scrape the terms out. Eventually, the glossary will be migrated from the Google sheet to a page on the OSGeo Live site. 
There is a trac ticket for this #2184 (https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeolive/ticket/2184). 

== Get involved ==

If you would like to contribute, conversations are happening on the OSGeoLive email list or you can email me directly felicitybrand@gmail.com

== Links ==
[1] https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/ \\
[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/master/doc/quickstart/udig_quickstart.rst \\
[3] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jmSlp9GNwoPupeFJdjPsBnL7vqVG7AiWbWLEGOWEcy4/edit#slide=id.p1 \\
[4] https://developers.google.com/style/ \\
[5] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/19tulyAEDN5Q5n-u_jlmXIKQjPI2Lwv6fh5Orad1mz1I/edit?usp=sharing \\