[Webcom] Re: [Incubator] New Projects - TODO

[Markus Neteler]

On 1/21/07, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > a question: These status pages contain an item:
> > "Are binary and source downloads available from the OSGeo download area?"
> >
> > but AFAIK there is no such thing. I think that we need a
> > prominent download button which usually generates much
> > (positive) traffic. There the links to the stable releases could
> > be collected.
>
> Markus,
>
> There is a download http server at http://download.osgeo.org/

Frank, all,

it looks, say, minimalistic.

> There hasn't necessarily been an effort to organize it for coming into
> "from the top", so I'm not convinced that a download button on www.osgeo.org
> is that good an idea.

At this stage not. But I feel that it should become an important addition
in the near future. The old idea of the OSGeo one stop shop...

Best,
Markus