Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: > I'm always looking for more ways to summarise statistics about OSGeo and > was reminded recently about some of the good work shown here - a map and > a member list based on wiki categories and properties: > > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Category:OSGeo_Member > > It's not a definitive list but is nice work, I'm not sure who to pat on > the back - good job! > > I've been trying to get to a place where I can get a list of Members, > charter members, list of chapters and their members, projects and the > members of their steering committees, etc. Not so easy. > > One way I like to present things during talks is by using graphical > representations of the OSGeo ecosystem. Some of you have seen the > Freemind Mindmap approach I used before.[1] I've also been able to > start to pull wiki pages and their links to other pages out into a > similar mindmap format. See this test page for experiments based on my > user page [2]. Memory and other issues prevent from doing too much more > online in real-time though, and the tests might fail, but you get the idea. > > These use the Semantic Mediawiki extension which also provides a > powerful tool for querying the wiki. You can add properties to pages > (which I haven't explored yet), but even without them you can query > across Categories. Here is one example of querying for all the pages > tagged as "OSGeo Member" and also related to a "Local Chapters" [3]. > And a more refined search that only shows User accounts that are tagged > as member pages and also with Local Chapter tags [4]. Bit of a > mind-bender but pretty neat when you see what it is really doing. > > I'm wondering if we can get more out of the wiki using these fancy > tools, without a lot of manual leg work. It leaves me wondering if a > simple form-based, user/member tracking tool might help - so members can > simply select which projects/committees they are on, providing a simple > record for generating reports from. > > What do you think - is editing the wiki a higher barrier then filling in > some forms? Would it feel more "official" if you had to fill in a form > and click "become an OSGeo Member"? :) > > p.s. You can also output RDF though I haven't used it for much yet, and > not sure it is really working [5] > > [1] Slide 8 & 9 show mindmap: > http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo/community/presentations/20070925-Victoria/OSGeoCommunity.html > > [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Test_Graphs > [3] > http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:Ask&offset=0&limit=500&q=+%5B%5BCategory%3ALocal+Chapters%7CCategory%3AOSGeo+Member%5D%5D&p=format%3Dbroadtable > > [4] > http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=Special:Ask&offset=0&limit=500&q=%5B%5B%3A%2B%7C%7CUser%3A%2B%5D%5D+%5B%5BCategory%3AOSGeo+Member%5D%5D+%5B%5BCategory%3ALocal+Chapters%5D%5D&p=format%3Dbroadtable > > [5] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Special:ExportRDF/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
A bit of a side trek but have you considered running the wiki logs through code swarm. I've been contemplating if we should run code swarm on all the project svn's as a PR tool for the projects and osgeo as a whole as it would highlight just how many people contribute. http://code.google.com/p/codeswarm/ Alex _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
