Thanks for your help with communication. I have issued a pull request addressing most of the feedback here: https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive-doc/pull/217
I will ask about sphinx themes on the marketing list for you and report back to the osgeo live mailing list. To return to the key question - are there any other areas where we need to check the mission/vision/goals are updated. Anyone willing to volunteer to check the wiki? -- Jody Garnett On 20 June 2017 at 08:23, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Comments inline: > > On 06/19/2017 09:02 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: > > I had a review of the upcoming live.osgeo.org release, and noticed a couple > things to update. > > 1) The live.osgeo.porg sponsorship > list<https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html> > <https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html> included both project sponsors -- > and OSGeo sponsors. The result was quite out of date. As the board member > keeping tabs on sponsors this was my responsibility .. but I did not > knowlive.osgeo.org was keeping a list :) > > > Perhaps we should just drop that list of OSGeo sponsors in the OSGeo-Live > pages if there is not enough time to update every year. > > 2) More importantly the sponsors page has a section describing osgeo > foundation <https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html> > <https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html> which had not been > updated with our new mission / vision. Once again we updated these > statements as a board, but did not chase it down into live.osgeo.org. > > > This has to be updated or just link to the proper OSGeo page. > From last night's PSC meeting we have a volunteer to take this task. > > 3) As incubation chair I asked if OSGeo live could update the branding for > OSGeo Projects and OSGeo Community Projects. This setup is in keeping with > the board decision to open the door to "innovation" last year by providing > an easier way for just-open-source projects to be supported by the > foundation). > > > +1 to include the community project badge, like we do for incubated and > graduated projects. > > 4) I asked if live.osgeo.org could include the new logo / color / font > branding (it may be too late, but it does not hurt to ask). > > > We are planning to use the new logo/color/font for our desktop artwork at > least in the upcoming 11.0 release. > I am not sure if we have enough resources (time and volunteers) for > updating the look and feel of the OSGeo-Live documentation for this > release. Having a new sphinx theme would definitely help. Is there a plan > to get such a new theme from the re-branding project? > > 5) I also asked as a LocationTech member if additional cloud based projects > could be listed on osgeo live. They are an increasingly important part of > our open source ecosystem, but not listed on live.osgeo.org. > > > I agree it is a good idea to list such cloud-based projects (as we have > done in the past for windows-only projects that could not be physically > installed in OSGeo-Live) > > I have joined the project mailing list to provide the above feedback more > directly, however I want to emphasis that it is not enough for us to make > decisions as a board - we need to reach out and communicate those decisions. > > > I agree. As a member of both bodies I should have communicated more. > > With respect to the board decisions on mission/vision/community projects > are there any other areas we need to update? > -- > Jody Garnett > > > Cheers, > Angelos > > > > _______________________________________________ > Board mailing > listBoard@lists.osgeo.orghttps://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board > > > -- > Angelos Tzotsos, PhD > Charter Member > Open Source Geospatial Foundationhttp://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos > > > _______________________________________________ > Board mailing list > bo...@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board >
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