[Incubator] platforms discussion

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks Bruce,

I did not get anything useful from the board; perhaps it is a subject for
the AGM.

For now the way forward seems to be to recast the platform as a framework
and ensure the resulting software stack and be picked up and run
independently (with a quickstart or similar).
--
Jody Garnett


On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 at 21:57, Bruce Bannerman <
bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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/
> 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), 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> 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> wrote:
>> >
>> > Discussion topic for incubation committee:
>> >
>> > We are getting applications from platforms seeking to join OSGeo.
>> >
>> > What do you think?
>> > --
>> > Jody Garnett
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