Fwd: About project categories

[Jo Walsh]

Mateusz sent this great proposal for reorganising the 'categories' on
the website in order to explain more to new users... he's not on this
list so it got bounced. I'd like to act on this, but i'm not sure if
a/ i have the right project role or b/ if it's something only CN can do

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Subject: About project categories
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 21:25:04 +0200
From: Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net>
To: dev at webcommittee.osgeo.org

Hi,

I'm not a member of the WebCom but I hope you don't mind
I'll share some ideas here.

I'd like to give my proposal of reorganization of project categories.
Currently, OSGeo project categories do not tell much about a type of
project, but about state (approved, in incubator, etc.).

IMHO, good example of categories is avaiable on the Tigris.org
http://www.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectList

Those categories are easy for users to navigate and find projects they
are interested in.

My proposal includes 2-3 or more branches of categories:

|- projects
   |- state
      |- in incubator
      |- approved
   |- software
      |- libraries
      |- frameworks
      |- web mapping
      |- desktop
      |- spatial databases
      |- utils
      |- ???

|- foundation
   |- committees
   |- local chapters
      |- countries
      |- ???

|- infrastructure
   |- mail
   |- website
   |- ???


Also, it could be nice to be able to assign project to more than one
category. For example, library XYZ could be assigned to
- projects - software - libraries
and
- projects - state - in incubator

IMHO, the 'projects' branch is most important for common users and
developers, so they will be able to find a project walking down the
categories tree.

Best regards
-- 
Mateusz Loskot
http://mateusz.loskot.net

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