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[Daniel Brookshier]

This is a good question. The whole idea of a project joining the  
foundation is to be under a common set of managed tools. By not being  
in the site, it sort of puts you as a sort of second class access  
compared to others. You will not fall into the search path and you  
can not take advantage of the user base as easily.

Although you have people that access your site now, new users that  
will become used to the current site are  not going to be seeing the  
same interface. Not a huge deal, just something to think about.

Possibly another issue is related to how we handle the IP issues and  
membership access. I do not know if the foundation needs to maintain  
the svn in order to be a proper guardian of the data. This is  
probably something Rich can talk to.

By being off site there is no simple way to count or otherwise  
identify your users with foundation users. That means as a  minimum  
that your users need to be members of both sites. OSGeo.org is the  
primary site for voting and such, so this does confuse things a bit.  
The foundation can throw its weight around by its size and being  
offsite can impact both registered user numbers and site hits.

Overall the key point is that you are not really a 100% part of the  
system unless you are in it. At Java.net we have a logo-exchange  
arrangement that shows you are a member. We could do the same thing,  
but as stated, there are disadvantages. I understand your need for  
independence, and that you already have a site. It is up to you on  
how you proceed.


Daniel Brookshier
Community Manager
Office: 972-422-5261
Cell: 214-207-6614


On Mar 13, 2006, at 10:24 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> Daniel Brookshier wrote:
>> Hi Jody,
>> Looking at your page, one thing you need to do since you are  
>> still  working with geotools is go ahead and request a project by  
>> that name.  That goes for all projects about to enter incubation.
>
> Daniel,
> At Mapbuilder, I'm not sure that we want to set up a
> http://communitymapbuilder.osgeo.org URL because it will confuse users
> who may be looking for our main development site at
> http://communitymapbuilder.org which we have recently set up.
>
> Is there some reason I'm unaware of as to why we should set up another
> URL?  We already have bug tracking, email lists, wiki and svn.
>
> -- 
> Cameron Shorter
> http://cameron.shorter.net
>
>
>
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