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On 10/20/2016 10:53 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:<br>
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OSGeo-Live likewise has hundreds of contributors, provides a easy
way for new users to find out about Open Source projects, and
maintains a high level of quality. It should be promoted. Note, we
have considered taking OSGeo-Live through graduation. Checklist
here:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Incubation_Graduation_Checklist">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Incubation_Graduation_Checklist</a>
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I think it is time for us to push the incubation process and address
any concerns there might be about OSGeo-Live through that process.<br>
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One concern I have is that OSGeo-Live includes more projects than
just those incubated. A casual observer would naturally deduce
that if OSGeo-Live has reached incubation quality, then all
included packages should have also reached such quality. This
assumption is incorrect and should not be promoted by OSGeo, and
is a reason for OSGeo-Live not to be officially recognised as an
OSGeo incubated project.
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This assumption is definitely incorrect and should be fully
addressed in the OSGeo-Live documentation.<br>
We have always given priority to graduated and incubating projects
(one exception comes to mind due to huge installation size
requirements) and we have tried to be as inclusive as possible,
since many new projects think that OSGeo-Live is an excellent way of
promoting their work and reach out to the community through this
"product". <br>
In the process of creating/building the OSGeo-Live, we sometimes
find interesting/helpful pieces of software to include or even
sometimes complete projects that are de-facto accepted from the
community as quality projects. We should continue to include them,
even if they are not fully graduated from OSGeo. We should also
encourage those projects to join OSGeo Community Projects (formerly
Labs), but sometimes those projects are not always interested in
joining OSGeo (We should consider why they are not interested, and
what is that we offer to new projects - this is a big discussion and
we need to take it up at some point).<br>
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Another point is that OSGeo-Live tends (not there yet) to be a
proper GNU/Linux distribution, including not just geospatial
software. We would never expect all included software (e.g. Linux
kernel, GNU, Debian, Ubuntu, Xorg, LXDE etc) to be somehow
officially linked to OSGeo :)<br>
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Best,<br>
Angelos<br>
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The OSGeo Data Committee is a great idea, but has lost impetus.
This might be a candidate for dropping from the home page.
Possibly we should be pointing people to Open Street Map or
similar.
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Warm regards, Cameron
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On 21/10/2016 12:20 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
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in the OSGeo landing page (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.osgeo.org">www.osgeo.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.osgeo.org"><http://www.osgeo.org></a>) in the "OSGeo projects" frame are
listed the so called "Outreach Projects".
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To my understanding and knowledge these listed projects (Public
Geospatial Data, Education and Curriculum, OSGeo Live) have not
been nor incubated nor graduated.
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I'm therefore asking for clarification, and in the case my
understanding is correct, to immediately remove these projects
from the landing page.
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Two of them are actually committee, at the same level of the
other OSGeo committee, that in my opinion should be equally
promoted and listed togheter.
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Best,
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Maxi
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