[Incubator] Suggestion that MapCentia GC2/Vidi should be an OSGeo Community Project
Martin Høgh
mh at mapcentia.com
Sun Nov 18 03:18:53 PST 2018
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
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