[mapguide-internals] Announcing MapGuide Projects

[Zac Spitzer]

change it :)

perhaps an offical blog with an rss feed as that's the modern
way of  getting information out as having it aggeraged via planet
geospatial/osgeo 's

great news about the dvd btw!



On 16 April 2010 09:44, Trevor Wekel <trevor_wekel at otxsystems.com> wrote:
> Hello PSC,
> Hello list,
>
> I just made a post to mapguide-announce regarding the LiveDVD project.  Tom and I thought it was appropriate since there was a "project announcement" in the past
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapguide-announce/2007-March/000011.html
>
> Then Tom did some additional digging and found that the -announce list is only supposed to be used to disseminate release and security patch information.
>
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapguide-announce/2007-March/000011.html
>
>
> Bummer deal.  According to the letter of the law, I should not have posted to -announce.  My bad.  On further reflection, I was wondering...
>
> Should we change the letter of the law?
>
> I believe we are missing out on a wonderful promotion opportunity.  I am sure our user base would love to know what is going on with MapGuide, who is using it (big/interesting implementations), and who is investing in it by sponsoring projects.
>
> The -announce list should remain low volume.  I would personally consider one announcement a week "low volume".  That would still give us to opportunity to make dozens of interesting announcements over the course of a year.  The announcements should probably be approved by a PSC member (or two).  How does this sound for an initial crack at -announce appropriate material:
>
> - Sponsorship of significant development work by the community (RFCs, new platform support, etc)
> - Unusual and/or publically visible MapGuide Implementations
> - New stuff to download for MapGuide (releases, samples, etc)
>
>
> Regards,
> Trevor
>
>
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