[OGDev] Upcoming Minneapolis.pm Talk

[Chris Prather]

On Jul 10, 2007, at 10:49 AM, Kake L Pugh wrote:

> On Mon 09 Jul 2007, Chris Prather <chris at prather.org> wrote:
>> So I have a talk this Thursday to the MPLS.pm group about OpenGuides.
>> Since I haven't given a public talk in years,  I was wondering if
>> anyone would care to comment on my slides.
>>
>> http://chris.prather.org/og_slides/slides.html
>
> Slide 2: "A Open Source Project" should be "An Open Source Project";
> "metadtata" should be "metadata"; "an geodata application" should be
> "a geodata application" (also see comment on slide 3).  It would also
> be more consistent to have the first point start "A Collection".
> Finally, why all the capital letters?

Long forgotten germanic roots? Where I always want to capitalize a  
noun? Fixed.

> Slide 3: I'd put a comma after "OpenGuides", and take the brackets
> away from "Geodata".  Also "a geodata application" is a bit of an ugly
> phrase; how about "a geographically-aware application", or "a geoaware
> application"?

Fixed

> Slide 4: "seperated" should be "separated"; and why is "Metadata"  
> capitalised?
> Can you actually do the "all restaurants open at noon" search?

Fixed.

I can't perform the search yet, but I hope to have something that  
works before Thursday.

> Slide 5: Why are "Long", "Lat", and "Searching" capitalised?

fixed.

> Slide 6: I'd change "first US guide" to "first US OpenGuide" (or do we
> prefer "Open Guide"?)

I went with Open Guide because I remember hex's Branding guidelines  
at one point said "OpenGuides" or "The Open Guide to"

> Slide 7: Either take the leading "The" away from the first point, or
> add one to the second point.

Fixed

> Slide 8: Earle is spelt "Earle", not "Earl" :)

Fixed with my apologies to Earle I knew it I just didn't write it.

> Kake

I'll have this re-published to the URL above in a second. Thank you  
so much for everything.

-Chris