Hello, I'm giving a presentation at the GITA conference in Grapevine TX in April, as part of the OSGEO track there. (Audience: electric/gas/water utilities, telecommunications, etc.)
Subject of the talk: highlights of management of a project as open-source, especially where that differs from software development in the single-company, closed-source model. Although the audience is likely to be mostly consisting of non-software developers, I'll be calling on these very people to team up with each other and with in-house and/or consulting software engineers -- across company lines -- to launch, build, and maintain open-source apps that address needs in their respective subject areas. I've got a fair amount of research to do to compile this information -- what apps and file structures comprise a viable project server, presenting all that through the project web site, etc. It has occurred to me that it would be useful to create an "Open-Source Project Starter Kit," a file structure consisting of the means to create and maintain a project, with none of the actual content. It's skeleton website definition would simply point at the unpopulated management components. A quick google suggests there are tools out there addressing some of this. And there's Sourceforge, of course. But if OSGEO were to create such a kit, it could be constructed so that the resulting projects match many of the criteria for qualifying as OSGEO member projects later. Any ideas out there on the feasibility of something like this, how to construct, etc.? I know a starter kit such as this would be most attractive to the GITA audience I'll be speaking to if it as close as possible to being a one-button operation. Thanks, Robert H.
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