[Webcom] Link OSGeo projects to OSGeoLive Project Overviews

[Ian Edwards]

Hi Jeff,

I think maintaining up-to-date summary pages for OSGeo projects is a key
part of OSGeo's role.  It we just redirect users directly from our homepage
to the individual project homepages then why not just expect them to
research and find suitable software using a search engine and bypass
osgeo.org completely?

The OSGeo Live summaries are always up-to-date, consistent, suitably brief
and well targeted.  They allow users to quickly understand the projects,
including answering key questions about licence and platform etc.  Without
these pages, I sometimes find myself checking licence information on
Wikipedia as it can be hard to find on some open source project web sites.

Ian
OSGeo:UK


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> wrote:

> Hi Cameron,
>
> I am not sure why we are using summary pages for projects (as you
> mentioned, they will just become out-of-date); easy answer is to point
> directly to the project pages. (this is what users/readers on osgeo.org
> want anyway)
>
> -jeff
>
>
>
> On 2013-06-26 10:15 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> > Jeff,
> > Have a look at the links to the OSGeo web page.
> > You will see that most links point to http://osgeo.org/<project> which
> > is an out of date page.
> > (At some point, I understand the web committee decided it best to point
> > to consistent pages.)
> >
> > What I'm proposing is if we do point to an OSGeo page, we should at
> > least point to an up to date one, hence the OSGeo-Live page.
> >
> >
> > On 26/06/2013 10:00 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
> >> Hi Cameron,
> >>
> >> As much as I think the OSGeo-Live project is wonderful, let's make sure
> >> that we send osgeo.org readers directly to where they want to go when
> >> they click on a project link: to the project's homepage.
> >>
> >> -jeff
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2013-06-25 5:54 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >>> All,
> >>> I recommend that the list of OSGeo Projects listed at http://osgeo.org
> >>> should link to OSGeo-Live Project Overviews.
> >>>
> >>> Currently they link to either outdated OSGeo pages for the project, or
> >>> the projects' home page.
> >>>
> >>> The OSGeo-Live Project Overviews provide a consistent description of
> all
> >>> projects, are updated every 6 months, and also provides links to a
> >>> Quickstart for each project as well.
> >>>
> >>> I'm happy to do the updating, if someone can provide me with suitable
> >>> permissions, and point me in the right direction.
> >>>
> >>
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