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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">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<br>
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On 7/14/21 2:19 AM, Jody Garnett via Board wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">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 class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://giscollective.com/">https://giscollective.com/</a> (with code at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://gitlab.com/GISCollective">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 class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.osgeo.org/projects/gc2-vidi/">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 class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/information-technology/portal/">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 mapstory.org and GeoNode for example.
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Jody Garnett
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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