[OSGeo-Discuss] Gentle reminder reg: Project selection on the new website draft

Wed Aug 16 06:44:36 PDT 2017

Helmut,

We appreciate the gratitude. We've worked really hard on this site and
want it to be something we can all be super proud of.

We also, appreciate your concerns, indeed its now the very first item
on the Agenda with our vendor today. I will report back in a few hours
with our intended course of action.

As for a freezing period. I think we can/should do a freeze *after*
FOSS4G but before we go live (intended for the end of the month, but
that may be ambitious now).

We also need to consider other areas of the site. For instance, we
have some entities registered as GeoForAll Labs which do not belong
there and also several Resources that could do with some review. So,
rest assured we are considering ALL of these things now and will
continue engaging the community for feedback along the way.

Thanks to everyone for speaking up. Again, lets focus on having a big
tent with as many people/groups/projects under it as can fit (and when
we run out of space, build an even bigger tent!). In my opinion, this
is why FOSS4G is such a successful event ... as everyone is welcome to
present their work and engage the community regardless whether its a
project in its infancy, or using some long established project that is
only now being adapted to Geospatial.

Hope to see many of you saturday and we can discuss all these things in person.

Have a great FOSS4G! Ill be in on Thursday for the Gala.

Jeff

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:36 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de> wrote:
> Dear Marc,
>
> that I'm not misunderstood, I highly appreciate the very hard work for the website redesign and rebranding!! And as already mentioned in an earlier mail by me, I understand that the redesign is in beta.
>
> Citing Angelos in this thread:
>
> "I also think that we need to be *very careful* on how we will list the projects in our new web site."
>
> That was my intention to start this discussion.
>
> As I'm already volunteering amongst others as OSGeo`s GSoC admin this year, see my first post as food for thought for improvement and input for the process; that is what my time permits ...
>
> Maxi's suggestions of a freezing period sounds good.
>
> Kind regards
> Helmut
>
>
>
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. August 2017 um 14:42 Uhr
> Von: "Marc Vloemans" <marcvloemans1 at gmail.com>
> An: "Maria Antonia Brovelli" <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
> Cc: "Helena Mitasova" <hmitaso at ncsu.edu>, "Paulo van Breugel" <p.vanbreugel at gmail.com>, "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>, "Helmut Kudrnovsky" <hellik at web.de>
> Betreff: Gentle reminder reg: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft
>
> Dear all,
>
> I feel that the "tail is wagging the dog" as they say. And we are on the brink of pushing valuable volunteers too far. Again.
>
> Your feed back on the website is needed, welcomed and enlisted, but please be it combined with some actionable way to go forward and a helping hand. The site is still in full progress,  if one looks behind the scenes; there is a really massive content creation thrust going on, the visitor journey experience is enhanced on a daily basis, a multitude of tweaks in progress and ..... the FOSS4Paris and Foss4gBoston preparations had to be done too.
>
> It is not the the Marketing Committee that has to fix anything regarding projects and policy related issues here.
> Jody and many others have had to make decisions - lacking input on various occasions- in good faith. Often lacking clear direction and decisions and actual support. This inefficiency has often resulted in rework and loss of volunteer time. The Committee is fully aware that there are still iterations to be done. Up till now they have done something extraordinary, unparalleled in recent OSGeo years. Some slack is in good order.
>
> By the way. The projects that are listed have all an OSI approved license. That has sufficed in the past. Let the free vs open discussion rest till a later date (if it needs to be conducted at all). Subdivisions of projects can be done in various ways: pleasing everyone in our community is a holy grail.
>
> And again. Please be aware that there is a finite number of volunteer hours in a volunteer day.
>
> Kind regards,
> Marc Vloemans
>
> Op 16 aug. 2017 om 07:37 heeft Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it[mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it]> het volgende geschreven:
>
>
> I agree completely with Helena. It has to be fixed with the highest priority.
> Have a good day,
> Maria
>
>
>
> Pay attention to this Special Issue and see if it is of interest by you:
> http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies[http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijgi/special_issues/Geospatial_Big_Data_Urban_Studies]
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> Da: Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org]> per conto di Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu[mailto:hmitaso at ncsu.edu]>
> Inviato: mercoledì 16 agosto 2017 13:29
> A: Paulo van Breugel
> Cc: OSGeo Discussions; Helmut Kudrnovsky
> Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft
>
>
> Jody, I have to go so I don't have time to write more but this needs to be fixed instantly to avoid massive backlash against the new website. After so much effort it would be heartbreaking to have a negative reaction just because we would be perceived  as providing advertising platform for projects which are not really free and open source (I guess we will hear more about this from Stallman tomorrow).
>
> Helena
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> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Paulo van Breugel <p.vanbreugel at gmail.com[mailto:p.vanbreugel at gmail.com]> wrote:
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> 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/[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/[http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/] directly?
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> 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
>
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