[Board] website help request for board: describe our partners

Fri Jun 9 13:38:43 PDT 2017

On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 2:40 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> I suggest we take this responsibility from the wiki to the website (and
> expect future boards to keep this up to date). This Information is too
> important/official to leave on a wiki don't you think?
>

I agree - the final, signed versions of MoU should go on the Partners
webpage - I suggest a link to the signed pdf (I forgot to mention this in
our today's meeting - we just discussed a link to the partners website
instead of a more detailed descriptions and contact names -  for most
organizations the contact is the president and they change annually or
bi-annually and the descriptions for the organizations change as well). The
full text of MoUs would require additional subpage for each partner making
the website more complicated than it needs to be so I think that a link to
the pdf of the official document would be the simplest.

>
> And yeah that wiki was the most official thing I found if it is wrong
> let's fix the content we are writing for the website. And delete the wiki
> pages when the website goes live.
>

The MoU OSGeo All wiki page is not wrong as far as I know - I was just
asking why do you think that it is out of date and what specifically you
find out of date. The wiki will be still needed to preserve the older
versions and historical photos and to work on the drafts - but we should
clearly mark them as past versions and drafts and provide link to the
webpage  with the currently active MoUs (I can take care of that once the
new website goes live).

I hope this clarifies it.

Helena

> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 3:09 PM Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Jodi,
>>
>> I noticed that you have written a comment that this seems out of date:
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_OSGeo_All
>>
>> I try to keep it up to date, but there might have been MoUs approved or
>> started that I have missed (perhaps the one with tech park in India? I
>> don't have it - it needs a wiki page to be set up).
>> Let me know what you think is out of date and I will fix it. I set it up
>> because when you search by Category:MoU you get a list which includes
>> expired MoUs (if you click the link you will find that they expired and
>> were replaced by something else).
>>
>> I would suggest to use only name of the organization and a link to its
>> page unless we have a committed volunteer who will keep this up to date. I
>> have found that just keeping track of the MoUs through wiki is quite time
>> consuming and making sure that our descriptions of the partner
>> organizations are up to date will require some commitment. For example, we
>> changed the MoU renewals from annual to bi-annual because it simply has not
>> been done for several years.
>>
>> Thank you, Helena
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Good Evening Board members:
>>>
>>> We are turning a corner on the website / rebranding project, and have a
>>> request for the OSGeo board. One section of the website is devoted to
>>> "partners" (all the organizations we maintain a formal relationship with).
>>>
>>> Building "vertical relationships" is one half of our outreach strategy
>>> at OSGeo and the idea is to emphasize who these organizations are, what
>>> they do, what our relationship is with them.
>>>
>>> Quick research:
>>> - https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:MoU
>>> - http://www.geoforall.org (why does this say foss4g bonn?)
>>> - https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Face_to_Face_Meeting_2016 (for
>>> locationtech gues member relationship)
>>>
>>> 1). Wireframe of list of partners in "InDesign"
>>>
>>> https://projects.invisionapp.com/d/#/console/10783291/236494420/preview
>>>
>>> 2) Descriptions of Partners
>>>
>>> We are staging content for the designer in a google document here:
>>> 
>>>  Partner Example
>>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zg3SnmNyLmvwAZBkxwrdJ9hHy1p07M7YslliHNm5928/edit?usp=drive_web>
>>> 
>>> To get us started I have quickly copied over the text description of the
>>> OGC from live.osgeo.org so we have *something*. Your help is needed to
>>> fill in content for the other organizations.
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Helena Mitasova
>> Professor
>> Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
>> North Carolina State University
>> 1125 Jordan Hall
>> NCSU Box 8208
>> Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
>> http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hmitaso/
>> http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/
>>
>> email: hmitaso at ncsu.edu
>> ph: 919-513-1327 <(919)%20513-1327> (no voicemail)
>> fax 919 515-7802 <(919)%20515-7802>
>>
> --
> --
> Jody Garnett
>

-- 
Helena Mitasova
Professor
Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
North Carolina State University
1125 Jordan Hall
NCSU Box 8208
Raleigh, NC 27695-8208
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~hmitaso/
http://geospatial.ncsu.edu/

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