Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

2010-06-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Hi Cameron: You should find that an official marketing template is already available as part of the work the graphics designed has done. My trouble is that I have not seen it in open office yet. Jody On 04/06/2010, at 9:34 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > For the OSGeo Live DVD that we are develo

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

2010-06-05 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 06/06/10 12:23, Jody Garnett wrote: I am also happy to see the marketing committee engaging with projects directly; I hope they also have some volunteer hours for writing and are not expecting developers to step away from their core responsibility to the codebase. Jody, Our aim is to create

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

2010-06-05 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 06/06/10 10:14, Jason Birch wrote: IMHO getting into rating projects is just asking for trouble, infighting, bitterness, and people/projects walking away from OSGeo. Jason, this is a valid concern with decent founding. However I think the potential for conflict is not as bad as you may th

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

2010-06-05 Thread Jody Garnett
Agreed on it being a hassle. However the OSGeo foundation also has a responsibility to users - who *really* want to see a feature list and to be able to compare projects. The foundation can take steps to help projects communicate - and this is the task/mandate of the marketing committee. Compe

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

2010-06-05 Thread Jason Birch
Wow, I'm really having opinions this week :) IMHO getting into rating projects is just asking for trouble, infighting, bitterness, and people/projects walking away from OSGeo. Jason On 5 June 2010 16:37, Cameron Shorter wrote: > Andrea and others, does this fit with people's expectations? > ___

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

2010-06-05 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 06/06/10 05:10, Andrea Aime wrote: Cameron Shorter ha scritto: For the OSGeo LiveDVD and OSGeo marketing material, I propose we use a 5 star maturity rating. This is because it is too difficult to explain in a couple of words, the difference between: "Graduated", "In Incubation", "Stable",

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

2010-06-05 Thread Cameron Shorter
Arnulf, I agree that we should only have one marketing template, which will provide content for a pdf/paper flier, a HTML description for the OSGeo LiveDVD, and an Open Office Text (odt) format, which can be cut&pasted into various other uses, like System Integrators' marketing material. The

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

2010-06-05 Thread Andrea Aime
Cameron Shorter ha scritto: For the OSGeo LiveDVD and OSGeo marketing material, I propose we use a 5 star maturity rating. This is because it is too difficult to explain in a couple of words, the difference between: "Graduated", "In Incubation", "Stable", "Beta" Again, I'm interested to hear co

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

2010-06-05 Thread Jason Birch
Arnulf, Yes, I like both of those options. I think my initial reaction was because it implied that a project was only supported by a single commercial entity, which isn't healthy. But I can definitely see the need to meet the use cases you've outlined. It makes a lot of sense to encourage/enable

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Comment on OSGeo Project Marketing template before we set it in stone

2010-06-05 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron, this should be tied directly to the project overviews / info sheets [1] that are already available on the OSGeo website and "should" be maintained by the projcets themselves. Tyler has provided really nicely layouted templates to do just this.