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

2010-06-06 Thread Stefan Steiniger
Hei, what I miss: - a line on supported platforms - not sure if applicable to all: supported customization/scipting languages (if not too geeky) and, I like it to be a OpenOffice doc, though Adobe Illustrator is fine for me too. stefan ___

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

2010-06-06 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 07/06/10 05:29, Stefan Steiniger wrote: what I miss: - a line on supported platforms - not sure if applicable to all: supported customization/scipting languages (if not too geeky) Good suggestions Stefan, I've added to the source Open Office doc here:

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

2010-06-06 Thread Bruce Bannerman
Jason / Cameron, From the potential utiliser / implementer viewpoint: I'd like to think that any project that has graduated OSGeo Incubation could be considered a quality project with all of the vectors described by Andrea. This proposed rating system implies that this may not be the case.

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

2010-06-06 Thread Frans Thamura
i think we need more art to the design template, this is more techical guy marketing with OSGeo logo we need more green to the templte F ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss

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

2010-06-06 Thread Daniel Morissette
I'm also not too keen on a star ranking system, especially if it is mostly based on having passed incubation or not. To me, passing incubation is more an indication of good process management and long term viability than an indication of software quality/robustness and ability to really solve

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

2010-06-06 Thread Cameron Shorter
Jason, I agree that it is important that any rating system has had a lot of thought put behind it, which is why I've suggested using the existing OSGeo graduation rating system - which has had input from many of us in the OSGeo community. I do think that Andrea has highlighted a couple of

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

2010-06-06 Thread Chris Puttick
The ODF adoption/marketing committee of OASIS would be ever so annoyed about your referencing ODF as the OpenOffice.org format as the whole point is that OpenDocument is not a memory dump of an application converted to some vague approximation of XML, but a genuine open standard which