[Board] platform applications to the osgeo community program

[Angelos Tzotsos]

This is an interesting challenge.

I think an additional requirement to be able to fully deploy the 
framework/portal on another instance would be valuable.

Best,
Angelos


On 7/14/21 2:19 AM, Jody Garnett via Board wrote:
> Here is an interesting challenge for OSGeo to consider:
>
> We have had a couple of platforms apply to join the OSGeo community
> program. As a software foundation - is there anything we should be doing
> here?
>
> The most recent application is https://giscollective.com/ (with code at
> https://gitlab.com/GISCollective ). As far as I know this is not a topic
> that other software foundations have dealt with explicitly (but I may just
> not have heard of it).
>
> Notes:
> - The previous applicant of this nature was GC2/Vidi (
> https://www.osgeo.org/projects/gc2-vidi/) which was asked to present
> themselves as a software framework (but this was not a perfect fit).
> - You can also look historically to projects such as GeoNode and GeoNetwork
> which are designed to be forked / copied and customized (and use an open
> source license as a way to enable or encourage the practice).
> - Checking our website we do have a category for portal (
> https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/information-technology/portal/) but
> I think this was a case of the cart leading the horse. We were trying to
> categorize software that was already in our foundation.
> - I would expect a key requirement (and the reason we ask that a platform
> be recast as a framework) is to ensure that a second service (or website)
> can be created with the provided source code. Consider the difference
> between mapstory.org and GeoNode for example.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
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-- 
Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos

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