Frank Warmerdam wrote:
For promotion, well, I'm kind of with Cameron that
our front page recommendations need to be
reserved for projects in which we have a lot of
faith in an effort to best serve the user.
On the other hand, I hope the discuss list (for
instance) can be a venue for folks to
On 10/2/07, Julien-Samuel Lacroix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I agree with you that the front page recommandations should remain for
incubated or in-incubation projects, but does a OSGeo Labs page could
be an option for project wanting to join OSGeo? A page with a list of
project that are not
I like the idea of an OSGeo Labs wiki page.
I really don't think a company or organization wanting to open source
a geospatial program would really need a lot of infrastructure from
the OSGeo. A hosting site like SourceForge provides all of the
infrastructure a project needs to get up and
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
Julien,
Could you launch an OSGeo Labs page in the wiki? If it
shapes up well, we can look at linking it from somewhere
reasonably prominent.
Best regards,
Thanks for the backup. My comment was more to get an idea of what people
think about it and I think most
I'm +1 for OSGeo Labs. It would be a good holding place for projects
waiting to go into incubation and for new projects to meet and
collaborate with each other.
The key elements of OSGeo Labs are:
1. Labs draws minimal overhead from the OSGeo community. Ie, provide
hosting, but not mentoring.
Hi,
I'll try to get something done. We could then start from there and add
information to it. I hesitant to add a provide hosting part for now.
I'm thinking of simply pointing to Sourceforge (or others) for now since
we didn't get a consensus on that part. I'm also thinking that it will
be
I would be willing to give some help on setting up an OSGeo Labs
Project with SourceForge services if there was interest. Maybe we could
put my e-mail with a note to that says as much on the wiki page.
Just a thought.
Landon
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Bruce
IMO:
I'd caution against watering down the OSGeo 'brand' as a source of
'quality' products, particularly if we want the products accepted as a
viable alternative within larger organisations.
While it is good to provide pointers to projects of interest, there needs
to be a clear
Yes,
There should be clear separation to the casual visitor between Endorsed,
Quality OSGeo projects and Labs.
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IMO:
I'd caution against watering down the OSGeo 'brand' as a source of
'quality' products, particularly if we want the products accepted as a
viable
This is pretty much what I had in mind when I mentioned the idea in my
post this morning. A structured space where projects could advertise
capabilities and plans, with the goal of establishing communities. Today
I feel like we (OSGeo) just turn those projects aside, and while I agree
we do
Fawcett, David wrote:
A first, and maybe only step might be to provide wiki space,
That should be a good start. We already something similar on
the OSGeo wiki
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Libgeos
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Mobile_Solutions
A link OSGeo frontpage under the OSGeo
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