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

[Jeffrey Johnson]

I should also point out that it has been suggested that we have a way
to 'rank' projects in these pages somehow that indicates their
popularity ... for instance when we have a page of all OSGeo projects
like the one linked below. Perhaps we can use the number of GitHub
stars or some objective metric to accomplish this?

http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/choose-a-project/mapping-and-cartography/desktop-mapping/

Also, we have alot of work to do to make the "Choose a Project" wizard
work properly, but its one part of the site that is *very* important
to us. Please keep an eye on this section and we encourage feedback
... but understand its not working to our satisfaction yet either.

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 6:43 AM, Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
>> On 16/08/17 15:29, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>> Note that several of these issues are on the list to be discussed with
>>> the vendor today.
>>>
>>> There is also the issue of actual OSGeo projects that simply havent
>>> responded to various requests for input. I've had to just add them in
>>> myself so they are there and can be hooked up to the choose a project
>>> wizard. What do we do about projects that have simply atrophied, but
>>> are still considered OSGeo projects?
>>>
>>> I *really* want us to adopt the mantra of "Bigger tent, more
>>> people/groups/projects under it" ... Small tent thinking wont get us
>>> very far.
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure that I've read a lot of small tent thinking. Most comments were
>> about priorities in the way projects are displayed on the OSGeo website, not
>> about excluding non-OSGeo (understood here as projects that have not
>> undergone a formal process to be labeled) projects from the website.
>>
>> I agree that the current website does not correspond to what I would expect.
>> I also am guilty of not having reacted earlier (although you have to admit
>> that the actual form of the website with actual project descriptions has
>> only been available to us in the last days). I personally would also plead
>> for highlighting OSGeo projects more than what the current form does.
>
> Again, this is the very first item on the list for our meeting in 15
> minutes with the vendor.
>
> One technical thing to note. For some reason the 'cards' on the
> homepage do NOT yet show the badge for the type of project, but the
> final pages of the Choose a project Wizard do. Check these 2 pages to
> see what I mean.
>
> http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/
> http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/choose-a-project/publish/content-management/
>
> Note the latter has the badge in the upper right corner.
>
> We will get these badges on the main projects pages ASAP today and
> that should help further the conversation.
>
>
>> This does not diminish in any way my profound respect and awe in front of
>> what the team has been able to pull off. I think the reactions on the list
>> just show how important this work is for everyone !
>>
>> Moritz