[Incubator] Suggestion that MapCentia GC2/Vidi should be an OSGeo Community Project

Sat Dec 15 10:54:29 PST 2018

I am confused,
MapCentia is a community project or a service provider?
Vicky
SAC member

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 3:21 AM Martin Høgh <mh at mapcentia.com> wrote:

> Thanks! I'm really proud of MapCentia being a part of OSGeo.
>
> /Martin
> On 20/11/2018 9:12 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>
> That looks brilliant! Especially love the browser and mobile screen shots.
> I have hit publish and the page is available to the public now:
>
> https://www.osgeo.org/projects/gc2-vidi/
>
> And it should also be available in the community projects drop down, and
> choose a project wizard:
> - https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/development/web-development/
>
> Looks like your level 1 / level 2 breakdown is correct and I can see your
> project in a number of categories (so it is working).
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
>
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 03:18, Martin Høgh <mh at mapcentia.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jody,
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback. I've changed the page accordingly to your
>> points. I still lack a picture of the team (which is small and spread out),
>> but we a planning a meetup with the contributors this winter and I'll see
>> if I can get a nice picture.
>>
>> /Martin
>> On 14/11/2018 1:51 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>
>> Excellent lets see if I can find them.
>>
>> *project page*
>> Looks good, it appears as if the project page logo and your service
>> provider logo are the same? That will be awkward for you if other
>> organizations choose to deploy the platform :) Consider naming the
>> framework page "GC2/Vidi" as you do when referenced from your service
>> provider page (or you know rename your company to prevent confusion).
>>
>> The first sentence:
>> - Say what the software does confidently, rather than be shy about it.
>> The use of "project aims to make" sounds shy, be confident you have met
>> your "aims" :D
>> - Open source is an internal detail of how the software is developed and
>> distributed (an important detail) that we are proud of ... but it is not
>> what the software does for potential users (well unless you are focused on
>> license fees impacting scalability).
>> - before: *The MapCentia project aims to make it easy for organizations
>> to use open source software for building spatial data infrastructure.*
>> - after: *The GC2/Vidi framework helps you build a spatial data
>> infrastructure quickly and easily. Powered using open source components for
>> a scalable solution focused on freedom rather than fees.*
>>
>> Q: Do you have a screen shot of Vidi? These pages look way better with an
>> example of what the software looks like running to share with visitors?
>>
>> Q: Do you have a picture of the development team? A theme of our website
>> is to show the people that produce the software (as a not so subtle
>> reminder that open source is made of people).
>>
>> Q: A bit more basic on what the project is for, keep in mind our visitors
>> are no all technologists :). As an example your leading feature is "Deploy
>> the whole software stack using Docker." Now if I am wrong and you only want
>> visitors that have committed to Docker that is fine also ...
>>
>> Q: What is a similar open source project? What is a similar proprietary
>> project that you could support people migrating from?
>>
>> For the service provider page we should move over to the marketing
>> committee.
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 at 12:25, Martin Høgh <mh at mapcentia.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Jody,
>>>
>>> I have now created Project and Service Provider pages for MapCentia.
>>>
>>> /Martin
>>> On 01/11/2018 3:25 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>>
>>> Excellent, set you up with the following roles
>>>
>>> - author: create events and resources
>>> -  project author: will let you crate your page, ping this mailing list
>>> when you would like review/publish
>>> - service provider: so you can set up a http://www.mapcentia.com/ page
>>>
>>> For more information see https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Website
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 at 02:38, Martin Høgh <mh at mapcentia.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks Jody,
>>>>
>>>> My OSGeo userid is: mhoegh
>>>> On 25/10/2018 2:02 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So this project meets our requirements for osgeo community, can I ask
>>>> for another committee member to double check :)
>>>>
>>>> Martin - something you can start on now is listing your project on the
>>>> osgeo website, let me know your OSGeo userid and we can check you have the
>>>> correct website roles.
>>>> --
>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 07:43, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sounds great, and welcome to OSGeo. I trust you have found the
>>>>> "checklist" we use https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. geospatial
>>>>> README of both repositories has this covered.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. open source license, with source code check of headers
>>>>> LICENSE of both repositories has this covered
>>>>> Can I ask if you have checked the headers?
>>>>>
>>>>> 3. accepts contributions
>>>>> CONTRIBUTING of both projects has this covered (and loved seeing code
>>>>> of conduct here what a great idea)
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 06:40, Martin Høgh <mh at mapcentia.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Incubator List,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We at MapCentia has been building an open source project called
>>>>>> MapCentia GC2. Which is actual two projects:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> GC2 - Combines PostGIS, MapServer, QGIS Server, MapCache,
>>>>>> Elasticsearch,
>>>>>> Ogr2ogr and more into one easy-to-use web application.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Vidi - A modern take on web GIS. It is the front-end for GC2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We think that the project is so good, that more people should benefit
>>>>>> from it. So we suggest that MapCentia GC2/Vidi should be an OSGeo
>>>>>> Community Project.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A more selfish reason for joining OSGeo is, that we would like to
>>>>>> involve more people in the development. And we think becoming an
>>>>>> OSGeo
>>>>>> Community Project could help us with that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The MapCentia project is today used by municipalities, engineering
>>>>>> firms, museums among many others.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Home pages:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/mapcentia/geocloud2
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/mapcentia/vidi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> License: GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Martin Høgh
>>>>>> MapCentia ApS
>>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>> Martin Høgh
>>>> MapCentia ApS
>>>>
>>>> --
>>> Martin Høgh
>>> MapCentia ApS
>>>
>>> --
>> Martin Høgh
>> MapCentia ApS
>>
>> --
> Martin Høgh
> MapCentia ApS
>
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