[Incubator] platforms discussion

[Bruce Bannerman]

Thanks Jody,

Personally:

I don’t mind a situation where an open source project attempts to develop and maintain software that is intended to integrate a number of software components into a working product which could perhaps be called a platform.

I can see many situations where the ‘platform’ might deploy both components and the platform’s specific customisations concurrently.

However, I would not support a situation where that product (or platform) can only be implemented once. I’d prefer that it can be implemented many times by different organisations.

While such a ‘platform’ project would look after its own "integration related software", I’d see that the individual components would be subject to their own open source project community’s governance practices.

This could get quite messy, when the integration related software is actually a customisation of an existing software component with its own open source community already in existence. This would require careful and close collaboration between both communities…

That will do for now, let’s see what others think.

Kind regards,

Bruce




> On 15 Jul 2021, at 01:21, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It is indeed overloaded, and no I cannot clarify as the applicants that are coming in are slightly different from each other.
> 
> Turn-key portals such as https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/information-technology/portal/ <https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/information-technology/portal/> these showcase a range of projects. Some like geomoose are presented as frameworks, others like GC2/Vidi are presented as a platform.
> 
> I would be cautious about an open source project that just supports a single website (like http://github.com/mapstory <http://github.com/mapstory>), but perhaps that is my own bias? There is an advantage to users of a platform being able to review the code responsible for the service they are using. But this represents new ground for OSGeo, hence the discussion.
> 
> I also brought this discussion to the osgeo board list; so we do not need to decide on our own.
> --
> Jody Garnett
> 
> 
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 18:56, Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com <mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>> wrote:
> Hi Jody,
> 
> The concept of a platform is quite overloaded and means different things to different people.
> 
> Can you please clarify what you mean by ‘platform’?
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Bruce
> 
> 
> > On 12 Jul 2021, at 18:30, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> > Discussion topic for incubation committee:
> > 
> > We are getting applications from platforms seeking to join OSGeo.
> > 
> > What do you think?
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> > Jody Garnett
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