Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Who's in incubation, who has graduated?
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: On 29-Jan-08, at 9:36 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote: On the OSGeo home page there's the list of OSGeo projects, but no indication of which projects have finished the incubation and are OSGeo certified. To find out, you have to make your way to the Incubation Committee wiki page, and there is the only list (I could find) of which projects have graduated. We would like to highlight this information better on the main portal page but could not propose a good way on how to do this. Any idea? How about adding a simply asterisk * beside ones in incubation - with a footnote under the project list saying what the symbol represents. Should be easy enough to do. Tyler, This sounds good to me. So I'd suggest the asterisk be labelled as Incubating which ideally would be a link to /incubator for additional details. Incidentally, I really wish we could change GeoNetwork opensource to GeoNetwork or GeoNetwork OS, and likelwise for MapGuide Open Source. I think the long names end up being confusing on the side bar due to wrapping and this is likely to be worse when there is an asterisk involved. Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Who's in incubation, who has graduated?
On Tue, January 29, 2008 10:54, Micha Silver wrote: I think this topic has been discussed before. Indeed, it has a history of being ignored, thanks for bringing it up again. Now that some major projects are moving we might also get more backing. Marketing has ordered a Logo for graduated projects that should come soon. It is a starting point. On the OSGeo home page there's the list of OSGeo projects, but no indication of which projects have finished the incubation and are OSGeo certified. To find out, you have to make your way to the Incubation Committee wiki page, and there is the only list (I could find) of which projects have graduated. We would like to highlight this information better on the main portal page but could not propose a good way on how to do this. Any idea? Furthermore on that page it says: The following status and provenance documents are for historical purposes, and are no longer actively maintained which *might* be misconstrued to mean that those projects are no longer considered part of OSGeo. Another issue that I have brought up long ago but which was also never followed up on. The only process in place now is a report by the PSC that is due ... whenever someone feels like it. Some of the issues dealt with in the incubation documents are to put good processes in place so that you will (hopefully) never have to bother about copyright and licenses anymore but things like the community, governance and general activity should be monitored in some way. Why not give some clear visual indication (font color, etc) on the main OSGeo web page of which projects have finished, giving them the credit they deserve? Yes, sure. We should really have done that much earlier. Cheers, Arnulf. Cheers, Micha -- Micha Silver Arava Development Co +972-8-6592270 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Arnulf Christl http://www.wheregroup.com ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Who's in incubation, who has graduated?
On 29-Jan-08, at 9:36 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote: On the OSGeo home page there's the list of OSGeo projects, but no indication of which projects have finished the incubation and are OSGeo certified. To find out, you have to make your way to the Incubation Committee wiki page, and there is the only list (I could find) of which projects have graduated. We would like to highlight this information better on the main portal page but could not propose a good way on how to do this. Any idea? How about adding a simply asterisk * beside ones in incubation - with a footnote under the project list saying what the symbol represents. Should be easy enough to do. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Who's in incubation, who has graduated?
Arnulf Christl wrote: On Tue, January 29, 2008 10:54, Micha Silver wrote: I think this topic has been discussed before. Indeed, it has a history of being ignored, thanks for bringing it up again. Now that some major projects are moving we might also get more backing. Marketing has ordered a Logo for graduated projects that should come soon. It is a starting point. Good news. Another issue that I have brought up long ago but which was also never followed up on. The only process in place now is a report by the PSC that is due ... whenever someone feels like it. Some of the issues dealt with in the incubation documents are to put good processes in place so that you will (hopefully) never have to bother about copyright and licenses anymore but things like the community, governance and general activity should be monitored in some way. How about a report in the Journal every 6 months or so (every other journal issue) from the incubator committee detailing which projects started incubation, which graduated, and how the others are moving along. And this could be the right venue to promote the benefit to FOSS projects of going thru the incubation procedure. -- Micha Silver Arava Development Co, Sapir, Israel tel: +972(8)6592270 cell: +972(52)3665918 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
