[Webcom] Proposal: OSGeo home page to link to OSGeo-Live Project Overviews

[Cameron Shorter]

On 24/03/13 22:23, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> On 23/03/13 13:51, Jody Garnett wrote:
>> Aside: If you can do me a favour of making a live-dvd motion to use 
>> your project summaries from the osgeo site it would be appreciated, 
>> the information we have in drupal looks terrible and is often wrong.
>
> OSGeo Web Committee,
> Currently, there are a list of OSGeo projects at http://osgeo.org, 
> most of which link to an
>  OSGeo page describing the project (eg http://www.osgeo.org/deegree). 
> Unfortunately, these OSGeo Project pages are not being maintained.
>
> I propose that instead the list should link to the OSGeo Live Project 
> Overviews, such as: 
> http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/deegree_overview.html
>
> These Project Overviews are updated every 6 months as part of the 
> OSGeo-Live build process, and are written in a consistent manner, with 
> OSGeo branding.
>
> Note: A secondary option could be to link to the Project's home page 
> instead. I suggest that links to OSGeo-Live Project Overviews are 
> preferable due to the consistent layout of the Project Overviews.
>

I haven't heard any feedback on this proposal, so I assume that there 
are no objections.
Jody, do you know what is involved in updating the web page as per above?
Do you want to update it when you update the incubation as per your 
suggestion?

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