I agree completely with Helena. It has to be fixed with the highest priority.

Have a good day,

Maria


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Da: Discuss <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Helena Mitasova 
<hmit...@ncsu.edu>
Inviato: mercoledì 16 agosto 2017 13:29
A: Paulo van Breugel
Cc: OSGeo Discussions; Helmut Kudrnovsky
Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft

Jody, I have to go so I don't have time to write more but this needs to be 
fixed instantly to avoid massive backlash against the new website. After so 
much effort it would be heartbreaking to have a negative reaction just because 
we would be perceived  as providing advertising platform for projects which are 
not really free and open source (I guess we will hear more about this from 
Stallman tomorrow).

Helena

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Paulo van Breugel 
<p.vanbreu...@gmail.com<mailto:p.vanbreu...@gmail.com>> wrote:


On 8/16/17 9:32 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
We could ask the OSGeo live project what procedure they use, at the moment we 
have asked on the disc...@osgeo.org<mailto:disc...@osgeo.org> mailing list for 
open source projects to fill in a google form so we would have content to try 
out the website with.

There is a very clear distinguishing of OSGeo projects on the website:

a) Sort order is OSGeo projects > OSGeo Community > Other
b) Only OSGeo projects are available from the menu directly,
c) When listed OSGeo Projects, and OSGeo Community projects are badged with the 
appropriate logo


When I use the link http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/ directly, I am 
seeing the page with all projects, with projects in what seems to be random 
order (and with some of the OSGEO projects, like GRASS, on the last page). Only 
when I click on 'projects' in the menu am I presented with the projects grouped 
in Osgeo projects, osgeo community, others. Wouldn't it be preferable to use 
that page as landing page when using the link 
http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/projects/ directly?


This is going to be an interesting week collecting feedback when lots of the 
website is not working as designed quite yet (examples tagging and sorting). To 
be fair the vast majority of project descriptions were entered last weekend so 
this is our first chance to try things out with actual content :)



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Jody Garnett

On 16 August 2017 at 02:36, Helmut Kudrnovsky 
<hel...@web.de<mailto:hel...@web.de>> wrote:

>Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. August 2017 um 06:28 Uhr
>Von: "Jody Garnett"
>Betreff: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Project selection on the new website draft
>
>Not sure it is much of an explanation - our vision as a group is to empower 
>everyone with geospatial - and there is a lot of open source >spatial to 
>promote.
>
>By the same vision 
>live.osgeo.org<http://live.osgeo.org>[http://live.osgeo.org] includes all 
>kinds of projects :)
>
>The key idea is to help people new to our world to go through the choose a 
>project pages and discover projects that meet their needs.
>
>The website is a beta, we now have enough projects to test out these ideas and 
>see what issues we can find.  There is a meeting tomorrow >with the vendor 
>that should be productive (a hands on training session[https://wiki.osgeo.org
>/wiki/FOSS4G_2017_Code_Sprint#Website_Training] for any one attending foss4g).

I'm following the new website and branding process a little bit by the mailing 
lists.

is there anywhere a documented discussion or a documented and approved decision 
about how the project selection to be listed on the OSGeo website is done? I 
can't find anyone.

To be inclusive is one side; not to distinguish OSGeo projects from other 
software projects from other initatives (e.g. locationtech) or GIS vendors 
without any supplement words in the OSGeo website, I'm feeling unconformable 
with it.

Kind regards
Helmut

OSGeo charter member




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