[Incubator] GISCollective + OSGeo

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear Szabo,

Would you be available to join our next board meeting to discuss your 
application?
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2022-02-28

Best,
Angelos

On 12/5/21 13:28, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Hi Szabo,
>
> We had a board discussion about platform/framework projects applying 
> for OSGeo Community Project status:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2021-10-03#OSGeo_Community_Project_check-in.2C_request_clarification_on_handling_of_platform_applicants.2C 
>
>
> Would you be available to join the next board meeting 
> (https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2021-12-27) to discuss 
> further about this issue? (incubation members also welcome to join)
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
>
> On 7/11/21 1:25 PM, Szabo Bogdan wrote:
>> Hi Jody,
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback. Since my last message, we created a docker 
>> container that bundles all the services that we are developing. We 
>> already had the option to install our service using a helm chart 
>> because we want to have a service that is easily scalable and low 
>> downtime. We also wrote an article how both of them work: 
>> https://giscollective.com/2021/07/09/installing-giscollective/ Also, 
>> people who don't want or can run their own instances, can use the 
>> ones that we maintain and are publicly available at these urls: 
>> https://app.giscollective.com https://new.opengreenmap.org
>>
>> We looked at the GeoMOOSE and gc2-vidi projects and we are going to 
>> continue improving our docs. Is there anything else that we can do to 
>> continue the incubation process?
>>
>> Best,
>> Bogdan
>>
>> On 7/1/21 2:45 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>
>>> Szabo the last cloud / website project did some thinking about what 
>>> it would mean to join a software foundation and ended up presenting 
>>> their technology as a framework (similar to GeoMOOSE and other 
>>> frameworks). The project is here 
>>> https://www.osgeo.org/projects/gc2-vidi/
>>>
>>> If you would like to see if the approach is appropriate for you. A 
>>> suitable goal would be quickstart instructions for folks to set up 
>>> their own service using completely open source components.
>>>
>>> Discussion topic for incubation committee members. If we continue to 
>>> get platform applicants to OSGeo we may need to consider how OSGeo 
>>> values map to a new area.
>>> Personally I have a great appreciation of platform / framework 
>>> projects and prefer the approach for code reuse to some of our OSGeo 
>>> software (like GeoNode and GeoNetwork) that promote forking for 
>>> customization affecting long term sustainability and community 
>>> development.
>>> -- 
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On Tue, 29 Jun 2021 at 00:22, Bogdan Szabo <contact at szabobogdan.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Jody,
>>>>
>>>> We are two individuals developing the platform. We try to develop a 
>>>> scalable microservices platform using open source tools and 
>>>> infrastructure. We mostly use GPL licenses for the user facing code 
>>>> and MIT for all the libraries that we develop.
>>>>
>>>> The code that we develop is published on gitlab:
>>>> https://gitlab.com/GISCollective
>>>>
>>>> And our service desk can be found at
>>>>
>>>> https://gitlab.com/GISCollective/help-desk
>>>>
>>>> I hope this answers your questions.
>>>>
>>>> Bogdan
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 06:32, Jody Garnett 
>>>> <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This is a software foundation, is the platform open source?
>>>>>
>>>>> -- 
>>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 23 Jun 2021 at 05:17, Bogdan Szabo 
>>>>> <contact at szabobogdan.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Greetings from Berlin! My name is Bogdan and I am the founder of 
>>>>>> the GISCollective project: https://giscollective.com/ Our goal is 
>>>>>> to make maps easy to use and create. The platform currently has 
>>>>>> features for creating, managing and publishing all sorts of 
>>>>>> geographical data and is used now by Green Map and other small 
>>>>>> communities. Of course, the code is open source and it can be 
>>>>>> accessed here: https://gitlab.com/GISCollective
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We would like to join the OSGeo community, because we are 
>>>>>> convinced that there are many other organization that can benefit 
>>>>>> what we built so far. Do you think that we would be a good 
>>>>>> candidate for your incubator program? If so what would be the 
>>>>>> next steps that we need to take in order to join your community?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Bogdan
>>>>>>
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>


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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos