[OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft

[Jody Garnett]

We could ask the OSGeo live project what procedure they use, at the moment
we have asked on the discuss at osgeo.org mailing list for open source
projects to fill in a google form so we would have content to try out the
website with.

There is a very clear distinguishing of OSGeo projects on the website:

a) Sort order is OSGeo projects > OSGeo Community > Other
b) Only OSGeo projects are available from the menu directly,
c) When listed OSGeo Projects, and OSGeo Community projects are badged with
the appropriate logo


This is going to be an interesting week collecting feedback when lots of
the website is not working as designed quite yet (examples tagging and
sorting). To be fair the vast majority of project descriptions were entered
last weekend so this is our first chance to try things out with actual
content :)



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Jody Garnett

On 16 August 2017 at 02:36, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de> wrote:

>
> >Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. August 2017 um 06:28 Uhr
> >Von: "Jody Garnett"
> >Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft
> >
> >Not sure it is much of an explanation - our vision as a group is to
> empower everyone with geospatial - and there is a lot of open source
> >spatial to promote.
> >
> >By the same vision live.osgeo.org[http://live.osgeo.org] includes all
> kinds of projects :)
> >
> >The key idea is to help people new to our world to go through the choose
> a project pages and discover projects that meet their needs.
> >
> >The website is a beta, we now have enough projects to test out these
> ideas and see what issues we can find.  There is a meeting tomorrow >with
> the vendor that should be productive (a hands on training session[
> https://wiki.osgeo.org
> >/wiki/FOSS4G_2017_Code_Sprint#Website_Training] for any one attending
> foss4g).
>
> I'm following the new website and branding process a little bit by the
> mailing lists.
>
> is there anywhere a documented discussion or a documented and approved
> decision about how the project selection to be listed on the OSGeo website
> is done? I can't find anyone.
>
> To be inclusive is one side; not to distinguish OSGeo projects from other
> software projects from other initatives (e.g. locationtech) or GIS vendors
> without any supplement words in the OSGeo website, I'm feeling
> unconformable with it.
>
> Kind regards
> Helmut
>
> OSGeo charter member
>
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