Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-10 Thread Jody Garnett
Your comments on specific logos for specific items is good; and amounts to a very light feature comparison. GeoTools ran into the limits of our own 5 star system; we ended up needing a different set of "stars" depending on the the kind of module being described. The "limit" was when we entered

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-10 Thread Cameron Shorter
Dave, I'm hoping most projects are represented on this discuss list. However, I'll also be contacting all our OSGeo Live project contact people in the next couple of days as we kick off the OSGeo Live build process. I'll make sure that each project can comment on the "Project Overview" which i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-10 Thread Dave McIlhagga
One suggestion - since there is a lot of concern about the idea of "rating" projects, maybe the PSCs of each of the projects should be consulted before going ahead with this? After all -- it's for each of these projects' benefits that this is being considered, and if the various PSC consensus is

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-10 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
> that projects that have applied for Good... > or are mature enough to apply ...But does "mature enough" mean Criteria 1-3 are met, or that some of the Desirables are met too, or..? -mpg From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Cameron Sho

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Rendez-vous OSGeo Quebec 2010 is less than a week away!

2010-06-10 Thread Daniel Morissette
brian heap wrote: will osgeo have a presence at the Canadian hydrographic conference in Quebec City starting June 19? No, I am not aware of anyone specifically representing or talking about OSGeo at CHC2010 (http://www.chc2010.ca/). Daniel -- Daniel Morissette http://www.mapgears.com/ ___

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Rendez-vous OSGeo Quebec 2010 is less than a week away!

2010-06-10 Thread brian heap
will osgeo have a presence at the Canadian hydrographic conference in Quebec City starting June 19? On Jun 9, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote: Hi Everyone, It is with great pleasure that I remind you all that the Rendez-vous OSGeo-Québec (http://rendez-vous-osgeo-qc.org/2010/) i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-10 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 11/06/10 01:59, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: (Along those lines, I'd also ask precisely what "ready to start" incubation means...) "Ready to start incubation" implies that projects that have applied for, or are mature enough to apply, can be ranked at the same level as projects in incubation.

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-10 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
I'd suggest that a set of N icons/logos accompanied by the words "mature" / "beta" / etc would be better than stars, as it directly indicates to the customer what we're using as a metric. Fixed, well-defined categories like this are good, because we do not want to get into subjective arguments

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-10 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
> Your comments have been good in that they have made me think deeper (Great, what more could anyone hope for?) Anyway, I think you might be selling OSGeo short -- our very presence indicates an implicit level of coordination and maturity that people will intuitively and implicitly grok. -mpg

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] 5 Star OSGeo project maturity rating

2010-06-10 Thread Cameron Shorter
Dave, So maybe we should have 1-5 stars (or osgeo logos) which is quickly visually understood by our target audience, and that is followed by a word or two describing each star rating. 5 logos (not used yet) 4 logos (very mature - passed osgeo incubation) 3 logos (mature - started or ready to