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

[Paulo van Breugel]

On 8/16/17 9:32 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> We could ask the OSGeo live project what procedure they use, at the 
> moment we have asked on the discuss at osgeo.org 
> <mailto: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
>
When I use the link http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/ directly, I 
am seeing the page with all projects, with projects in what seems to be 
random order (and with some of the OSGEO projects, like GRASS, on the 
last page). Only when I click on 'projects' in the menu am I presented 
with the projects grouped in Osgeo projects, osgeo community, others. 
Wouldn't it be preferable to use that page as landing page when using 
the link http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/ directly?


>
> 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 
> <mailto: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>[http://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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