[Incubator] Suggestion that MapCentia GC2/Vidi should be an OSGeo Community Project
Martin Høgh
mh at mapcentia.com
Tue Nov 20 01:21:39 PST 2018
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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