On 8/16/2017 8:37 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
I agree completely with Helena. It has to be fixed with the highest priority.
Same here.
Venka
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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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