[Webcom] new spotlight?

[Tyler Mitchell]

I see your points Jason and I think it is probably not wise to open  
the floodgates to each and every project unless we were to get a  
handle on some rules first.  That was your opinion, right? ;)

I also see there is a news item announcement for this project already  
as well as more detail on the MapGuide site where you think it  
belongs.  It may be overkill to do more at this point anyway, though  
the project sounds great and is good exposure for OSGeo and MapGuide.

Any other thoughts or opinions?
Tyler


On 8-Mar-07, at 2:53 PM, Pericles S. Nacionales wrote:

> these are also good points!  We probably should create some rules  
> on "spotlights" or break it down to something like Developer  
> Spotlight, Project Spotlight, foundation spotlight... Well, we  
> should still set up rules on what should be on the spotlight.
>
> An agenda for next meeting?
>
> -Perry
>
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> Perry Nacionales
> pnaciona at gis.umn.edu
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jason Birch" <Jason.Birch at nanaimo.ca>
> Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:14:23
> To:"Web committee discussions" <webcom at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: RE: [Webcom] new spotlight?
>
> I'll try to refrain from an opinion.
>
>  If we do publish these I really think that they should be a  
> different content type so that they can be found better.  Like  
> "Case Study" or "Success Story".
>
> I'd really prefer to see stories on the OSGeo site that show how  
> multiple OSGeo applications can be used together for a solution.   
> When I initially proposed putting project-specific case studies on  
> the main site, quite a few folks thought that these should be  
> maintained by the individual projects on their own sites.
>
> Jason
>
>
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> From: webcom-bounces at lists.osgeo.org on behalf of Tyler Mitchell
> Sent: Thu 2007-03-08 12:10 PM
> To: Web committee discussions
> Subject: [Webcom] new spotlight?
>
>
>
> Hi all,
> MapGuide Open Source is being used in a cool project (see below).
> I'm thinking this would make a good spotlight and would add some
> welcome new content on our front page of the web site.  I know our
> spotlights have been specific people, but why not a project as well?
> What do you think?
>
> Tyler
>
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>>
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