Jody,
Any suggestions for changes to my text, I would be happy to
 consider. I hope my document will be helpful to the community.
Please
 let me know if there is any other feedback you or others have.
Thank
 you,
M. Ballinger
Our existing documentation is in an 
open wiki; and code repository. Open
 source projects do not 
generally have spare volunteers to help :-)
Your 
existing instructions look fine thus far; if 
your shapefiles had a 
sidecar "sld" file uDig would take that as the 
default style (and 
not trouble your users with a  " probably
 create a pretty ugly map").
The
 
closest document we have to yours is:
When
 your document is complete we can of course add it to the wiki "Getting 
Started"
 section; and it will be included in subsequent releases of 
uDig.
Jody
On
 17/06/2010, at 1:52 PM, MICHELLE ELIZABETH BALLINGER wrote:
Dear
uDig
 Community,
 
I am interested in 
providing a tutorial that includes uDig, and I would 
like to
ask 
for your help. I am a masters candidate for graduation at Penn State
 World
Campus with a Masters in Geographic Information Systems 
degree. My 
capstone
project is a Blueprint for Open Source Web 
Mapping. I am creating a step
 by
step outline for the public's 
use to create open source web maps of a 
topic of
their choice. I 
would greatly appreciate feedback from you to improve my
 project. I 
am releasing a draft of the Blueprint at http://mballingercapstone.web.officelive.com/default.aspx.  I would then hope to work with you during the
next
 month to make sure the Blueprint is a valuable addition to existing
documentation.
 Thank you for your consideration.
 
M. Ballinger
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