<div dir="auto">Angelos:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0)!important;border-color:rgb(255,255,255)!important" dir="auto"><span>I was thinking on this more and it may just be my bias as a software developer. </span>There is an advantage to users of a platform being able to review the code responsible for the service they are using. But this represents new ground for OSGeo, hence the discussion.</div><div style="background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0);border-color:rgb(255,255,255)" dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Bruce had some additional discussion points on the incubation list for this topic: <div><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2021-July/004391.html">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/incubator/2021-July/004391.html</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">In any case this discussion seems to go into policy and is thus a matter for the board to consider.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Jody</div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 18, 2021 at 4:09 AM Angelos Tzotsos via Board <<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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<div>This is an interesting challenge.<br>
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I think an additional requirement to be able to fully deploy the
framework/portal on another instance would be valuable.<br>
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Best,<br>
Angelos</div></div><div><div><br>
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On 7/14/21 2:19 AM, Jody Garnett via Board wrote:<br>
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<pre style="font-family:monospace">Here is an interesting challenge for OSGeo to consider:
We have had a couple of platforms apply to join the OSGeo community
program. As a software foundation - is there anything we should be doing
here?
The most recent application is <a href="https://giscollective.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family:monospace">https://giscollective.com/</a> (with code at
<a href="https://gitlab.com/GISCollective" target="_blank" style="font-family:monospace">https://gitlab.com/GISCollective</a> ). As far as I know this is not a topic
that other software foundations have dealt with explicitly (but I may just
not have heard of it).
Notes:
- The previous applicant of this nature was GC2/Vidi (
<a href="https://www.osgeo.org/projects/gc2-vidi/" target="_blank" style="font-family:monospace">https://www.osgeo.org/projects/gc2-vidi/</a>) which was asked to present
themselves as a software framework (but this was not a perfect fit).
- You can also look historically to projects such as GeoNode and GeoNetwork
which are designed to be forked / copied and customized (and use an open
source license as a way to enable or encourage the practice).
- Checking our website we do have a category for portal (
<a href="https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/information-technology/portal/" target="_blank" style="font-family:monospace">https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/information-technology/portal/</a>) but
I think this was a case of the cart leading the horse. We were trying to
categorize software that was already in our foundation.
- I would expect a key requirement (and the reason we ask that a platform
be recast as a framework) is to ensure that a second service (or website)
can be created with the provided source code. Consider the difference
between <a href="http://mapstory.org" target="_blank" style="font-family:monospace">mapstory.org</a> and GeoNode for example.
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