[Live-demo] OSGeo Live CD / Cartaro

Mon Dec 10 03:11:58 PST 2012

Patric,
I'm excited to see Cartaro applying for OSGeo-Live integration.
I've reviewed your application, and think that it would be great to see 
Cartaro included on OSGeo-Live at some point, but I'm nervous about 
including it before it has reached a stable 1.0 version.

I'll be interested to hear thoughts from other OSGeo-Live packagers?

What I would suggest is that for our 6.5 release, that you write your 
installers for testing.  We will probably ship the DVD with Cartaro 
installed, but we just won't advertise this to the greater OSGeo 
community until Cartaro reaches a stable 1.0 release (probably in the 
OSGeo-Live 7.0 released for foss4g2013).

Comments?

On 10/12/2012 10:24 AM, Patric Hafner [geops.de] wrote:
> Dear Members of the OSGeo mailing list,
>
> we would like to request the integration of "Cartaro Geospatial CMS" to
> the next OSGeo Live CD. The completed questionnaire is part of this 
> email.
>
> Some month ago, Cameron Shorter contacted us. From the very first we
> liked the idea to be part of OSGeo Live CD. Now we are convinced Cartaro
> is stable enough for OSGeo Live CD.
>
> As the milestones for next release are very close, we already prepared
> install scripts and documentation according the guidelines in the wiki.
> After your decision is made, we can commit very quickly.
>
> We are looking forward to receiving your positive reply and we hope to
> be part of the project.
>
> Please contact me if you have any questions.
>
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> With best regards,
>
>
> Patric Hafner
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> OSGeo-Questions
> Please describe your application.
>
> - What is its name?
> Cartaro
>
> - What is the home page URL?
> http://cartaro.org
>
> - Which OSI approved Open Source Licence is used?
> GPL v2
>
> - What does the application do and how does it add value to the
> GeoSpatial stack of software?
> Cartaro is the web mapping platform that brings the power of the best
> open source geospatial components into a content management system. With
> Cartaro you are able to set-up and run your own geo-enabled and OGC
> standards-compliant website with not more than a few clicks. The
> geospatial components used in Cartaro are PostGIS, GeoServer,
> GeoWebCache and OpenLayers. All those are managed from within the
> powerful CMS Drupal.
> Cartaro is for organisations and individuals that need to run a
> light-weight spatial data infrastructure (SDI) without the need for
> extensive configurations and much individual programming.
> Cartaro is also for all websites that focus on CMS features while also
> having to handle geospatial data.
> Most functions needed for a SDI come right out of the box through the
> close integration of Drupal with PostGIS and GeoServer.
> The main features of Cartaro are:
> * Spatial data storage with true geometry data types
> * Creation of data types from within the Drupal GUI
> * Integrated online editing of geospatial data
> * Data publishing with integrated maps
> * Configuration of map layouts and behaviors
> * Symbol styling
> * Data publishing through OGC standards-compliant web services (OWS)
> like WMS and WFS
> * High performance map output through GeoWebCache
> * Transparent privilege handling and security for all spatial data
> * Content publication workflow and revision moderation
> * Basic metadata collection through access to GeoServer-GUI
> * Full extensibility through thousands of Drupal modules or individual
> programming
>
> - Does the application make use of OGC standards? Which versions of the
> standards? Client or server? You may wish to add comments about how
> standards are used.
> Cartaro makes use of OGC standards on the client and on the server by
> integrating GeoServer and OpenLayers. In particular WMS 1.1.1 and WFS
> 1.0 are supported.
>
> -What language is it written in?
> Mostly PHP as well as JavaScript and Java.
>
> -Which version of the application should be included in the next
> OSGeo-Live release?
> 1.0-beta3
>
> ---------------
> Stability
>
> Stability is very important to us on OSGeo-Live. If a new user finds a
> bug in one application, it will tarnish the reputation of all other
> OSGeo-Live applications as well. (We pay most attention to the following
> answers):
>
> - If risk adverse organisations have deployed your application into
> production, it would imply that these organisations have verified the
> stability of your software. Has the application been rolled out to
> production into risk (ideally risk adverse) organisations? Please
> mention some of these organisations?
> Cartaro has been used for lots of small non-profit projects so far. A
> large international company currently started using Cartaro for 
> production
>
> - What is the size of the user community? You can often answer this by
> mentioning downloads, or describing a healthy, busy email list?
> Cartaro has been downloaded almost 2000 times since spring 2012.
>
> - What is the size of your developer community?
> About 5-10 developers.
>
> - Do you have a bug free, stable release?
> Cartaro is almost ready for a release candidate.
>
> - Please discuss the level of testing that your project has gone through.
> Cartaro has gone through multiple beta releases tested by a large user
> base. All bugs reported are being fixed within short time, usually after
> not more than three days. For all development we use continuous
> integration with extensive unit tests in order to reduce the risk of
> bugs. Code quality is guaranteed by subjecting Cartaro to the quality
> assurance workflow of the Drupal community.
>
> - How long has the project has had mature code.
> Since summer 2012 the core parts of Cartaro haven't changed much and can
> be declared as mature code.
>
> ---------
>
> Other
>
> - OSGeo-Live is targeted at applications that people can use rather than
> libraries. Does the application have a user interface (possibly a
> command line interface) that a user can interact with? (We do make an
> exception for Incubated OSGeo Libraries, and will include Project
> Overviews for these libraries, even if they don't have a user interface.)
> Cartaro has a web-based user interface that builds upon and is
> integrated into the user interface of Drupal
>
> - We give preference to OSGeo Incubated Projects, or Projects which are
> presented at FOSS4G conferences. If your project is involved in OSGeo
> Incubation, or has been selected to be presented at FOSS4G, then please
> mention it.
> Cartaro is not yet involved in OSGeo Incubation. Cartaro has an abstract
> submitted for FOSSGIS 2013, the german-speaking OS GIS conference.
> Participation at one of the next FOSS4G conferences is planned.
>
> - With around 50 applications installed on OSGeo-Live, us core packagers
> do not have the time to liaise with every single project email list for
> each OSGeo-Live release. So we require a volunteer (or two) to take
> responsibility for liaising between OSGeo-Live and the project's
> communities. This volunteer will be responsible for ensuring the install
> scripts and English documentation are updated by someone for each
> OSGeo-Live release. Also test that the installed application and
> Quickstart documentation works as expected on release candidate releases
> of OSGeo-Live. Who will act as the project's liaison person.
> Contact persons are Patric Hafner <patric.hafner at geops.de> and Friedjoff
> Trautwein <friedjoff.trautwein at geops.de>
>
> - OSGeo-Live is Ubuntu Linux based. Our installation preference is:
> Write a custom install script
>
> - Can you please discuss how your application will be installed.
> Download of tar - Archive and setup via drush (PHP-based Drupal 
> Installer)
>
> - OSGeo-Live is memory and disk constrained. Can the application run in
> 512 Meg of RAM?
> Yes, without any problems.
>
> - How much disk space will be required to install the application and a
> suitable example application?
> about 70MB
>
> - Each OSGeo-Live application requires a Project Overview available
> under a CC By and a Quickstart available under a CC By-SA license. (You
> may release under a second license as well). Will you produce this?
> Yes
>
> - In past releases, we have included Windows and Mac installers for some
> applications. It is likely we won't have space for these in future
> releases. However, if there is room, would you be wishing to include
> Windows and/or Mac installers?
> No
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