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[blammo]

All,

This is the exact type of thing I was thinking about for project  
promotions that OSGEO could be instrumental in.  I also had a thought  
related to this, this afternoon, related to this, I was thinking  
about a project classification of "OSGEO Registered" for use by any  
project that applies in any way shape or form, then there is a list  
of project to keep track of, then you could put as many intermediate  
steps or tiers in place over time to progress projects against.

I would be interested in (trying) to help with something like this,  
but I wouldn't want to examine the same types of projects that I'm  
trying to promote, I would need to do other different types of  
projects.  You might start things out by setting up a few  
questionnaires that interviewers could start from for the different  
types of projects as templates, and then let the interviewers  go  
from there, should keep things similar in nature between projects but  
also allow for the interviewers to dig deeper if needed.

bobb



On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I was thinking about promoting new projects and one thing that came to
> mind that might be helpful is doing a "Project Spotlight" on new  
> projects.
> We could do it in a form somewhat similar to the Spotlights we used  
> to do
> for people (but have lapsed, leaving Tom on the front page  
> forever!).  These
> spotlights would be on the OSGeo front page briefly, could be sent  
> out to
> discuss (and perhaps announce), and could likely be included in the  
> OSGeo
> Journal.
>
> The spotlights could be done in a question/answer interview style that
> would make it easy for folks to get a sense of what the project is  
> about,
> it's status, and where it might fit in with other projects.   The
> interviewer/editor could help ensure an appropriate level of detail  
> and
> some consistency between spotlights.
>
> *But* to make this work, we would need one or more "project spotlight"
> interviewer/editors.  Does anyone think this would be a useful  
> idea, and/or
> be interested in helping make it work?
>
> Best regards,
> -- 
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