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<p>I'll add that we have lost the contents of the extensive list of
OSGeo Advocates we had at:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate</a></p>
<p>And as per a prior email thread, our OSGeo Incubation processes
are now hard to find and not linked into the main docs.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 28/4/18 1:55 am, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">For functionality issues we do have some support
from get interactive for the first year. I think the search not
working would be worth following up on.
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<div>For new features we have some budget, currently the
GeoForAll committee is working with get interactive to migrate
some of their resources from the previous website.</div>
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<div>The biggest feature I am missing is the ability to "link"
to the results of filters - this is holding up the ability
have a list of voting members.</div>
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<div>Some good direction from the board and CRO is to:</div>
<div>a) Use LDAP for the wiki, so everyone can use the same
OSGEO userid for the website and wiki. This should help with
profiles.</div>
<div>b) The use of the members list to manage voting members,
since the list has gotten too long for CRO to track<br
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<div>Jody Garnett</div>
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<div dir="ltr">On Fri, 27 Apr 2018 at 07:59, Steven Feldman <<a
href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" moz-do-not-send="true">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-kerning:none">A quick scan of the web site
suggests that multiple content creators are possibly a
source of inconsistency in the way we do things.</span></div>
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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-kerning:none"></span><br>
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<div
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-kerning:none">For example - on the resources
tab we have an enormous number of pdfs uploaded by geo
for all, this is going to get out of control unless we
offer better filtering and some archiving. The search
and filter don’t seem to work for me but that might be a
safari thing (don’t have time to test with another
browser right now). Alternatively we could encourage
them to host their newsletters on their web site and
just provide one link in the resources section of the
OSGeo web site</span></div>
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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-kerning:none"></span><br>
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<div
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-kerning:none">Initiatives seem to be
proliferating (I acknowledge my own small bit of
responsibility here) - that may be a great thing but
should someone be deciding what constitutes an
initiative that should appear on the web site? Maybe the
marketing committee does do this?</span></div>
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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-kerning:none"></span><br>
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<div
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-kerning:none">Member bios are inconsistent,
some do not have photos some do not have any content
apart from a couple of ticks in projects e.g. <a
href="https://www.osgeo.org/member/pawley/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span>https://www.osgeo.org/member/pawley/</span></a>. </span></div>
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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-kerning:none"></span><br>
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<div
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-kerning:none">The member search also returns
some unexpected results e.g. Jo Cook, Ian Turton and
Matt Walker (friends and colleagues of mine) all have
Astun Technology in their bios and under the ‘company’
field, I have Astun Technology in bio:</span></div>
<ul>
<li
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-kerning:none">if you search for Astun only
Jo’s name is returned</span></li>
<li
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-kerning:none">If you search for Astun
Technology none of our names are returned</span></li>
</ul>
<div
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-kerning:none"></span><br>
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<div
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-kerning:none">The service providers section
shows 9 logos on the first page (with loads of follow on
pages- it appears that these first 9 are not randomly
selected, this could cause some upset. Filtering by
location takes you to a nightmare dropdown which IMO
needs cleaning up. Surely the location filter should be
at country level or perhaps in the US at state but not
at individual towns/cities where people are located?</span></div>
<div
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-kerning:none"></span><br>
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<div
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-kerning:none">There is a lot of news being
posted which is great but it appears in 9 large blocks
with 63 follow on pages! Perhaps we need to look at a
way of presenting more news items on the front page and
also a way of accessing past news by having a date
filter or selector? Are there any criteria as to what
constitutes OSGeo news (community and foundation) and
who can post?</span></div>
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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><span
style="font-kerning:none"></span><br>
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<div
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-kerning:none">Nothing disastrous in these
observations but perhaps an indication of how the site
could become unwieldy and inconsistent in behaviour and
content if we don’t try to set some policies or
guidelines now.</span></div>
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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;min-height:14px"><br>
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style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span
style="font-kerning:none">Cheers</span></div>
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style="border-collapse:separate;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal;border-spacing:0px">______<br>
Steven<br>
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