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Jody,<br>
I can see both pluses and minuses to this idea, but it has certainly
got me thinking.<br>
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You have mentioned the pluses below, of giving a project a way to
clearly note the credentials of the project (in this case that the
project have part of their marketing pipeline in order).<br>
<br>
On the downside, I think we run the risk of confusing potential uses
with lots of slightly different badges, one for osgeo, another for
incubation, another for foss4g, and so on.<br>
<br>
I think what you are highlighting is a much greater opportunity for
providing standardised metrics which can be used to differentiate
the viability of different open (and closed) source projects.<br>
Users want to know:<br>
* Application robustness<br>
* Licence audit<br>
* Community robustness<br>
* Documentation available<br>
* Training available<br>
* ...<br>
I don't have any quick answers for this yet, but do hope we can
gradually work toward this.<br>
<br>
On 18/10/2011 8:44 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
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<div> In the incubation committee I have been considering the role
the project badges play. </div>
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<div>I was wondering if there would be interest in creating a
badge for "osgeo live" participation. This would actually be
really nice in that:</div>
<div>a) projects could advertise their participation in the osgeo
live project; and be rewarded for the hard work involved in
participation</div>
<div>b) the badge could serve as a link to the project description
page (thus driving traffic and interest to the osgeo live
project and allowing projects to quickly link to the
documentation they have created).</div>
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</div>
<div>What do you think? The badge may be simple; or it may want to
be a bit more specific (something like "OSgeo Live"+"Quickstart"
to make it obvious that there is documentation available in
trade for clicking on the link).</div>
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<div>Something to think about..</div>
<div>-- <br>
Jody Garnett<br>
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