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DESCRIPTION:Strong open source projects do not happen by accident. They are
  built through sustained effort\, shared ownership\, and a community of pe
 ople who understand the power of GIS tools and care about making software 
 like QGIS accessible\, reliable\, and useful for everyone.\nIn this talk\,
  we introduce the people behind one part of that work: the documentation t
 eam and the project administrative assistant. The documentation team curre
 ntly includes two full-time writers\, and this year QGIS welcomed a new co
 lleague\, an administrative assistant supporting the QGIS Project Steering
  Committee and the wider project. Having dedicated\, funded roles like the
 se is still quite new for open source projects\, and we see it as an impor
 tant step toward long-term sustainability. We want to introduce ourselves 
 and share what this work really looks like.\nWe will walk through our docu
 mentation review: what we audited\, what we improved\, what we rewrote\, a
 nd what we learned along the way. This includes pull requests and communit
 y contributions\, new and reworked content sections\, progress on translat
 ions that bring QGIS closer to more communities worldwide\, and workflow i
 mprovements that make contributing to documentation easier for everyone.\n
 We will also talk honestly about what full-time open source work feels lik
 e in practice - collaborative and rewarding\, but also full of real challe
 nges. Keeping pace with a fast-moving codebase\, deciding what to prioriti
 se\, supporting community contributors\, and building a team culture withi
 n a volunteer-rooted project all take more effort than they might appear f
 rom the outside.\nFinally\, we will look ahead: expanding coverage\, impro
 ving the experience for new contributors\, strengthening the connection be
 tween development and documentation cycles\, and making the annual review 
 reports a lasting and useful practice.\nIf you use QGIS\, contribute to it
 \, or are simply curious about what it takes to keep a large open source p
 roject well documented and welcoming\, this talk is for you.
DTSTAMP:20260724T214438Z
LOCATION:Bridge Cinema
SUMMARY:Inside QGIS: Documentation\, Community\, and the Work In Between - 
 Selma Vidimlic Husic\, Hefni Azzahra\, Marco Serusi
URL:https://talks.osgeo.org/qgis-uc2026/talk/UAWRBX/
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