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

Tue Nov 20 00:12:50 PST 2018

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/

<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
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>> Incubator mailing list
>>>>> Incubator at lists.osgeo.org
>>>>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator
>>>>
>>>> --
>>> Martin Høgh
>>> MapCentia ApS
>>>
>>> --
>> Martin Høgh
>> MapCentia ApS
>>
>> --
> Martin Høgh
> MapCentia ApS
>
>
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