On 10/1/07, Tamas Szekeres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As reading the replies up to now I continue to think what OSGeo can do > is more adding some technical expertise rather than creating a venue > and a project advertising board. > > Currently I feel a significant power around the users and developers > forming the OSGeo to decide or at least give some point of > consideration whether a project should be brought to alive or not, > definitely. Therefore it would be prudent for the developers/designers > to have been measured with the ideas by a broader community before > creating a new project.
Folks, Some interesting points in this thread! Addressing Tamas' immediate point above, I think that bouncing a project idea (or early prototype) off folks in the broad OSGeo community (via discuss or person to person discussions at FOSS4G for instance) could be helpful in deciding how much traction it is likely to get. *But* as Paul mentioned earlier, the judgement of one or a few people isn't likely to be that authoritative. OSGeo isn't really well organized currently for providing infrastructure for large numbers of projects. So - barring some folks coming forward to make that aspect work we can pretty much set it aside. Folks always have the option of hosting sites like sourceforge. 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 get some exposure for new and interesting projects. I think writing an article for the journal might be another approach. I *do* see the issue that folks with new projects need exposure and feedback. I'm just not too sure how to serve them with existing resources, and without diffusing our promotional efforts too much. 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 | Geospatial Programmer for Rent _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
