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

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

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

As Paulo also already mentioned here on the list: directly going to http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/, there are no projects distinguished. That was the starting point of my discussion.

I understand that the new website is in beta, but I think this should be fixed/managed sooner than later as the more the new website is promoted (e.g. FOSS4G), the more confusion and similar may occur. this should be avoided IMHO.

Kind regards
Helmut
 

Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. August 2017 um 09:32 Uhr
Von: "Jody Garnett" <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
An: "Helmut Kudrnovsky" <hellik at web.de>
Cc: "Jeffrey Johnson" <ortelius at gmail.com>, "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
Betreff: Re: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft

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
 
 
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[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[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