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

Sat Dec 15 13:02:31 PST 2018

It seems to be a service provider, and they initially called their open
source project (gc2 server, vidi client) by the same name.

Thier are several reasons why this would not be smart (for one people using
the project would end up making use of the service provider name and my run
into trade mark conflict).

So you are correct to be confused, it is part of what is being sorted out
on this thread.

On Sat, Dec 15, 2018 at 10:54 AM Vicky Vergara <vicky at georepublic.de> wrote:

> 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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>>>>>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>> Martin Høgh
>>>>> MapCentia ApS
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>> Martin Høgh
>>>> MapCentia ApS
>>>>
>>>> --
>>> Martin Høgh
>>> MapCentia ApS
>>>
>>> --
>> Martin Høgh
>> MapCentia ApS
>>
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