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

Wed Aug 16 03:57:01 PDT 2017

The other model we could go for is the requirements for an osgeo community
module - to be geospatial, open source, and open to contributions.

(Explcitly have a LICENSE and CONTRIBUTING file in their source repository).

Thanks for the positive discussion Angelos and Helmut. If either of you can
attend today's meeting it would be good.

I do not know if we wish to write this down as a bug, when it some of the
presentation aspects are part of the visual design that is not yet
implemented.

Strategically our communicationsk goal in listing a wide range of projects
is so we can show that open source is available - even for categories where
we have yet to attract an OSGeo project.

There is also some cases (such as hosting or open data) where we want to
direct visitors to our service providers (sorted to highlight core
contributors) and partners/friends such as OSM and Natural Earth.

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:30 AM Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The OSGeo-Live project procedure to add a project is described here:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project
>
> "We have an emphasis of quality, and we are space constrained on OSGeoLive
> and so are selective about what is included.
>
> Priority for selecting OSGeoLive projects to package is:
>
>    1. OSGeo Projects
>    2. OSGeo Projects in incubation
>    3. Stable GeoSpatial Open Source Software being presented in
>    workshops, tutorials, or presentations at FOSS4G
>    4. Other Stable GeoSpatial Open Source Software with established
>    project communities and a wide user base
>    5. It will be ready for the next release in accordance with our
>    schedule
>    <https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB>
>
> "
> I see now that we should add OSGeo Community Projects in that list.
>
> We ask projects to answer a list of questions before we make a decision
> (at project meetings or through a mailing list vote) to include them:
>
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Apply
>
> I also think that we need to be *very careful* on how we will list the
> projects in our new web site.
> The graduated projects have to be distinguished (they are clearly
> distinguished here http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/ ), else we
> would be throwing incubation procedure out of the window...
>
> The OSGeo-Live projects is now using a new way to mark projects by adding
> the OSGeo logo next to all Graduated, Incubated and Community projects:
> http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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 :)
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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>
>
>
> --
> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
> OSGeo Charter Member
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>
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Jody Garnett
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