[Live-demo] osgeo live badge

[Jody Garnett]

You are back to your theme of wanting to report these metrics. Not sure it would be popular this time either. The difference between reporting and judging is small - and every one is correct in being cautious.

I am simply looking for a way to thank those participating and asking them to give us a link :)

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Jody Garnett

On 18/10/2011, at 9:23 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jody,
> I can see both pluses and minuses to this idea, but it has certainly got me thinking.
> 
> You have mentioned the pluses below, of giving a project a way to clearly note the credentials of the project (in this case that the project have part of their marketing pipeline in order).
> 
> On the downside, I think we run the risk of confusing potential uses with lots of slightly different badges, one for osgeo, another for incubation, another for foss4g, and so on.
> 
> I think what you are highlighting is a much greater opportunity for providing standardised metrics which can be used to differentiate the viability of different open (and closed) source projects.
> Users want to know:
> * Application robustness
> * Licence audit
> * Community robustness
> * Documentation available
> * Training available
> * ...
> I don't have any quick answers for this yet, but do hope we can gradually work toward this.
> 
> On 18/10/2011 8:44 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> 
>> In the incubation committee I have been considering the role the project badges play.
>> 
>> I was wondering if there would be interest in creating a badge for "osgeo live" participation. This would actually be really nice in that:
>> a) projects could advertise their participation in the osgeo live project; and be rewarded for the hard work involved in participation
>> b) the badge could serve as a link to the project description page (thus driving traffic and interest to the osgeo live project and allowing projects to quickly link to the documentation they have created).
>> 
>> What do you think? The badge may be simple; or it may want to be a bit more specific (something like "OSgeo Live"+"Quickstart" to make it obvious that there is documentation available in trade for clicking on the link).
>> 
>> Something to think about..
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>> Jody Garnett
>> 
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