[Incubator] Suggestion that MapCentia GC2/Vidi should be an OSGeo Community Project
Martin Høgh
mh at mapcentia.com
Fri Oct 26 00:26:03 PDT 2018
I've now updated the CONTRIBUTING.md for the two projects. More detail
about submitting changes:
https://github.com/mapcentia/geocloud2/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
https://github.com/mapcentia/vidi/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
On 25/10/2018 9:45 AM, Jo Cook wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This sounds like a great project and a good fit for the OSGeo
> Community. My only concern is that the contributors guidelines are a
> little short, and (to my mind) imply a lot of experience in how to use
> github and make pull requests. I think if you want to encourage
> contributions from all levels of coder then you might need to expand
> on how to contribute. I also think you should state explicitly that
> any contributions will be made under the same license as the overall
> project, if that's correct. When putting together the contributor's
> guide to Loader
> (https://github.com/AstunTechnology/Loader/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
> we followed these guidelines:
> https://contribution-guide-org.readthedocs.io/.
>
> All the best
>
> Jo
>
> On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 8:38 AM 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
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