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

[María Arias de Reyna]

Are you sure ordering by rank is a good idea (whatever the rank is)?
That leaves small projects behind...

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 3:51 PM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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