[Incubator] Suggestion that MapCentia GC2/Vidi should be an OSGeo Community Project
Martin Høgh
mh at mapcentia.com
Mon Dec 17 05:00:45 PST 2018
That's right. MapCentia is a company located in Denmark. We are
developing two main projects: GC2 and Vidi, which are coupled in one
community project named GC2/Vidi
Sorry about the confusion.
/Martin
On 15/12/2018 10:02 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>>>>> <mailto: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
>>>>> <mailto: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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> Jody Garnett
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Martin Høgh
MapCentia ApS
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