<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks Jody,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">I don’t mind a situation where an open source project attempts to develop and maintain software that is intended to integrate a number of software components into a working product which could perhaps be called a platform.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">I can see many situations where the ‘platform’ might deploy both components and the platform’s specific customisations concurrently.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">However, I would not support a situation where that product (or platform) can only be implemented once. I’d prefer that it can be implemented many times by different organisations.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">While such a ‘platform’ project would look after its own "integration related software", I’d see that the individual components would be subject to their own open source project community’s governance practices.</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">This could get quite messy, when the integration related software is actually a customisation of an existing software component with its own open source community already in existence. This would require careful and close collaboration between both communities…</li></ul><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That will do for now, let’s see what others think.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bruce</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 15 Jul 2021, at 01:21, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" class="">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">It is indeed overloaded, and no I cannot clarify as the applicants that are coming in are slightly different from each other.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Turn-key portals such as <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/information-technology/portal/" class="">https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/information-technology/portal/</a> these showcase a range of projects. Some like geomoose are presented as frameworks, others like GC2/Vidi are presented as a platform.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would be cautious about an open source project that just supports a single website (like <a href="http://github.com/mapstory" class="">http://github.com/mapstory</a>), but perhaps that is my own bias? 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 class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I also brought this discussion to the osgeo board list; so we do not need to decide on our own.</div><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">--</div><div class="">Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div><br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 18:56, Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" class="">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi Jody,<br class="">
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The concept of a platform is quite overloaded and means different things to different people.<br class="">
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Can you please clarify what you mean by ‘platform’?<br class="">
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Bruce<br class="">
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> On 12 Jul 2021, at 18:30, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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> We are getting applications from platforms seeking to join OSGeo.<br class="">
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> What do you think?<br class="">
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> Jody Garnett<br class="">
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