About a month ago I sent an email to this list about GeoNode milestones. I wanted to recap our progress and talk write about the upcoming project schedule.
First, last week was the Understanding Risk conference, and was intended to be a time to do a lot of unveiling of GeoNode software. Unfortunately, for a number of reasons (none of it our fault) timing on the Haiti Web Portals and CAPRA GeoNodes slipped and we didn't get to show off as much as we would have liked. However, we've been steadily developing features, tightening up our build and deployment story, and bolstering our community infrastructure in the meantime. Lots of people at the conference were excited by the prospects around GeoNode. This project has the potential to be something really game-changing for people at the World Bank and within the Disaster Risk Management community. The next big milestone is the 1.0beta release that we plan to have ready by August 1st. To recap the priorities on this, this is a broad overview of a the feautres we've worked out as the minimal set for this release: * Data management * Metadata management * Search * Styling * Users with access control * As smooth a deployment story as we can get to. * A batch upload data utility The idea is that this is a minimum set of functionality that shows off what GeoNode is capable of and can be deployed usefully as an SDI. Many of these features are already in place. There is also still a lot of work to do and as expected bugs keep coming up. So we will have our work cut out for us in the next two months. That said, we have some control over the scope of the next release. With the World Bank in particular we are moving gradually to a more agile development model, and they appreciate the value of getting a release out the door in a timely way so that we can start collecting more feedback from real users quickly. (Indeed, a pilot deployment of the beta version in Peru is scheduled for late this summer) In the coming weeks I'll be checking in with everyone on the team to try to anticipate our needs for the coming months. Thank you all for your great work on this so far. It's wonderful to see it all coming together, especially as we've taken some time to work on software maintenance, quality, and community. I will keep looking hard for ways to let us keep investing in this kind of work, which we all know is necessary for the good of the project. On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Sebastian Benthall <[email protected]> wrote: > [double mailing-listing just this once in case there are any > stragglers--after this won't cross-write to both librelist and the capra-dev > list. See http://projects.opengeo.org/CAPRA/wiki/MailingList ] > > Last week Galen (World Bank) and I laid down a rough schedule for upcoming > GeoNode milestones. With the way funding is coming in now and with the > inclusion of Ariel on the team, we are much less tied to the schedules > defined by specific contracts now, so it's possible to use broader brush > strokes. > > Here's our schedule for the coming months: > > > June 1st - Understanding Risk Conference. As much as possible, the World > Bank wants to use this as a time to do promotion around GeoNode. So they > are going to have their new CAPRA Web Site, with hopefully a similarly > themed CAPRA GeoNode with nice data. They will also unveil the Haiti Web > Portals which will be based on GeoNodes. A lot of our work until June will > be in support of this work. > > > August 1st. -- This is now our target for a GeoNode 1.0 (as in, 1.0 for > real) beta release. These are the feature, roughly, that we are aiming for > this release: > * Data management > * Metadata management > * Search > * Styling > * Users with access control > * As smooth a deployment story as we can get to. > * A batch upload data utility > The idea is that this is a minimum set of functionality that shows off what > GeoNode is capable of and can be deployed usefully as an SDI. More on > scheduling, specification and funding for this forthcoming. > > The Bank may be able to enlist testers at this point. Galen knows some > people. > > September 1st (No later than) -- GeoNode 1.0 official release. We start > doing a big PR thing around it, and we've been developing Tutorial and > presentation material around it because > > September 6th -- FOSS4G2010, we make as big a show of it as we can. > > > Then, this is so vague that it almost shouldn't be here, but: > > February 2011 -- "Virtual Roadshow." By this point we've added a lot more > functionality and start putting out a lot more material about GeoNode up on > the web. > > > -- > Sebastian Benthall > OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org > > -- Sebastian Benthall OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org
