[Live-demo] should OSGeo Libraries be included in OSGeo-Live docs?

maplabs at light42.com maplabs at light42.com
Sat May 14 15:54:20 PDT 2011


On Sun, 15 May 2011 06:54:13 +1000, Cameron Shorter  wrote:
... 
> 1. Should we invite OSGeo-Libraries to write a project overview on 
> OSGeo-Live?
>

  +1

> 2. If yes, which projects should we invite?
> Just graduated projects, or projects in incubation as well?
>
> The projects are:
>
> FDO
> GDAL/OGR (already on OSGeo-Live)
> GEOS (in incubation)
> GeoTools
> MetaCRS (in incubation)
>

  those all look like good candidate to me.. they are substantial 
bodies of work
However, my impression is that most all of those are chronically 
under-resourced: due to complexity, few can make needed
changes; due to significance and impart, improvement is always
needed, and matter; due to architecture, it is not the library that 
gets retail 
resource rewards, but rather the applications on top of them.. 

  I suggest that library writeups would have a common graphical look,
similar to but different from the docs produced so far, and also I suggest 
that we keep relatively low expectations about how thats going to 
happen.. 

  Cameron, thanks for asking about this.. 

    -Brian

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