[Gvsig_english] About community documentation space

[Antonio Falciano]

Il 25/01/2010 16.39, Mario Carrera ha scritto:
> Hi all

Hi Mario,

> The gvSIG team have been discussing this morning about the best approach
> to give you the most useful resources.
>
> The first option for us is to use our portal (http://www.gvsig.org). The
> main plone instance is our first documentation resource and can not be
> used as a community repository of documents.

ok

> By the way, we can create another plone instance with a fresh new
> database and user management. On this new instance we can enable the
> automatic registration process in order to let anyone willing to
> collaborate to access with the appropriate role to start working on the
> portal immediately.
>
> Plone, out of the box has a professional publication workflow, with
> roles for editors, reviewers and so on that can be used on this
> instance. This way, we can have some people, committed with the
> initiative, reviewing and publishing documents, and others writing,
> translating, or whatever.
>
> But, this solution is, of course, our recommendation. To implement it we
> need some time and, as resources are expensive, we don't want to do
> anything without more feedback from you, in order to assure that the
> solution we implement is afterwards used. We don't want to force any
> decision, and we prefer to involve you on this decision.
>
> Thus, we've decided to create an open working group at our portal, to
> let you work for some time there. This working group will decide if we
> go on with a new plone instance for community generated documentation or
> is preferable to research another solutions.

These ideas sound very interesting! I vote for this option.

> At this time the working group
> (https://gvsig.org/web/projects/contrib/community-doc) is a just a
> template that will be filled with a proper descriptions and so on.
> Anyone willing to collaborate can mail me or Jorge Sanz and will give
> you a portal user account (if you don't have one) and permissions over
> this working group space to let you test it, participate on its own
> forum, etc.
 >
> On the other hand, last week Jorge proposed to arrange a meeting to
> discuss all this thing and no one answered. We think it is a good idea
> because it would boost this special interest group and don't let to
> loose the momentum of this great initiative.

In the meanwhile, if we Italians want to translate the new gvSIG 1.9
documentation, what can we do? And, above all, where? We are ready to
start very soon!

Cheers,
Antonio

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Antonio Falciano
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