[OSGeo-Discuss] are3na catalog requires software publisher statement

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Paul van Genuchten
<paul.vangenuchten at geocat.net> wrote:
> Hi list, i'm sending you this mail related to a question i was discussing,
> which might be relevant to other osgeo.org communities.
...
> I checked how other OSGEO projects managed this in that catalog. deegree
> seems to be added by IDGis, QGIS by faunalia. I liked however the way Grass
> has managed this, they registered an organisation "GRASS Development Team"
> and assigned that as publisher (and claimed it to be a "Academia/Scientific
> organisation").

Yes, I registered and manage the GRASS GIS entry at
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/26854

A few other GRASS PSC members have access, too (for the "bus factor").

> I'm interested to hear your thoughts about this matter. And also would urge
> all communities to register their projects (openlayers, geoserver,
> mapserver, geomajas), since the catalog is quite a reference in Europe.

Yes, please do that. Be more OSGeo brand there!

Markus