[open-data-manual] Team update

Thu Jul 14 16:32:46 UTC 2011

Thanks for this Tim,

Julian

Open Data Cities and DataGM

On 11 Jul 2011, at 07:38, Tim McNamara wrote:

> Hi all, here is the first of weekly updates. Lots of interesting material:
> Pro-tips for learning to contribute
> Milestone reached
> Teleconference
> Changes to website
> 
> Pro-tips for learning to contribute
> ==========================
> 
> Remember that the place to direct people towards is the Participation Guide , which currently lives within the project wiki. It includes information on what you need to install, explains all of the terminology and how to find an interesting piece of content to work on.
> 
> Link: https://bitbucket.org/okfn/opendatamanual/wiki/Participation_Guide 
> 
> 
> Milestone reached
> ===============
> 
> This week marks quite a special occasion. The Open Data Manual received its first external contribution from Pablo Mendes (https://bitbucket.org/pablomendes). It was actually a fix for two very important points.
> 
> First, RDF has been in longstanding use since the 1990s. When I first drafted the section on it in the manual, I was fairly ignorant of this and used the weasel word "recently". The fix makes this more specific.
> 
> Secondly, it corrects a mistake I made when providing instructions for an Ubuntu install. We use a tool called Mercurial (http://mercurial.selenic.com/) for our version control. This is great, except for the fact that its application is named "hg", the chemical symbol for mercury ("hydrargyrum"). I was asking people to install "hg", when actually they should be installing "mercurial".
> 
> 
> Teleconference
> ============
> 
> This didn't go ahead in the end. Sorry for the extremely notice of the teleconference last week. Perhaps we should schedule a time for a few weeks?
> 
> 
> Changes to the website
> ==================
> 
> The landing page of opendatamanual.org will be moving to a  Wordpressinstall. That should enable us to do things like:
> create blog posts when updates occur
> enable us to branch out to multiple different languages easily
> provide direct links for PDF/other output formats more easily
> If you would like to help with this process, send a message to the list. Input is very welcome. 
> 
> 
> Tim McNamara
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