Cameron, Agree wholeheartedly, but this is a recurring question coming up from anyone interested in trying out (any) Open Source software. It's also (in my opinion) a big piece of the Software sales task. Are those lines in the overviews describing support coming from the support registry? I know the stuff for GeoMoose was handwritten (by me) for example, but that's only pointing at the stuff our community knows about, shouldn't a piece of this be brought in from the support registry as well and printed out directly in the overview as a build process?
Putting out one or two pagers for each software package with some sort of
Support pointer is pretty much a necessity. I'm trying to explore a method
where the information can be maintained in one location while still enabling
the semi-update printing mechanism. I assume for example that I could write
something against this lookup service:
http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile
to pull information about particular packages,(like GeoMoose) etc: Is there
some sort of documentation or would I need to reverse engineer?:
GeoMoose support =
http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1&MUL_COUNTRY[]=00007&MUL_LANGUAGE[]=00008&MUL_TECH[]=00088<http://www.osgeo.org/search_profile?SET=1&MUL_COUNTRY%5b%5d=00007&MUL_LANGUAGE%5b%5d=00008&MUL_TECH%5b%5d=00088>
Is there some sort of registry to let the service operators know that I'm using
it in this fashion? Is there an opportunity here to set up a next gen version?
Is there a method to pull from this database a XML feed possibly, for syncing
purposes?? I bet some of the registrants might not want this though, but who
knows.
I may be able to secure some funding for some sort of digest output for this
type of online service, or possibly OSGeo thinks that it's better left up to
OSGeo to provide (that's where the information was collected after all).
Either way, I wouldn't be interested in attempting anything in a vacuum unless
it's a sanctioned process.
Bobb
From: Cameron Shorter [mailto:cameron.shor...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 3:10 PM
To: Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
Cc: live-demo@lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Live-demo] Thoughts on how to include support information on the
Live DVD
Bob,
I believe we have support questions covered as each Project Overview has a line
describing support options for that package.
I wouldn't want to replicate this information as it would become a maintenance
problem to keep the information maintained in 2 locations.
On 13/09/2012 5:06 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
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All,
I've been in a few discussions recently related to describing support options
for OSGeo software.
Are there any others with ideas about how to list support options for
application on the Live DVD (or as a companion piece?) I know this exists, but
is it of any use to figure out a method or methods for distilling these type of
listing down into Application pertinent listings for handouts at conference
(along with a LiveDVD)?
I would imagine that the listing would likely change at different time indexes
with respect to the LiveDVD releases.
Thanks
Bobb
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