In last week’s meeting I was asked to replace the placeholder text on the home page - and indeed this is my only personal goal for volunteering the weekend.
Right now we have:
Choose a project With navigation to:
CHOOSE A PROJECT
Why open source? With navigation to:
MIGRATE TO OPEN SOURCE GIS
OPEN SOURCE IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION - explains geoforall and open geoscience work
WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE
Join our community
With navigation to:
WHY CHOOSE OPEN SOURCE
CONNECT WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY - covers local chapters and service providers
Review:
I am sure we made of some of these navigations quickly, but I like the progression of ideas - and focus on people who are not part of our community … yet
During FOSS4GE some of the feedback / buzz around the conference was the difference between “open source” and “free and open”. And I felt that feedback when presenting this website/rebranding project.
I would like to add something on “free and open”. While I feel strongly we cannot put “free and open” on everything (as was requested for brochure feedback) because we have not introduced the term yet so it would not help communication at this stage. I think the concept is important to introduce.
The “join our community” heading is the only awkward one - it is not strictly speaking on point (focus is asking visitors to consider open source for the first time). Still with our “open geospatial” component we do offer more than just open source … Going to see if I can write this to be links to our Community > Welcome pages. I guess this is not technically about the mechanics of joining our community - the goal is to motivate visitors to reach out to us by sharing what our community offers participants
Open Source Geospatial
Our mission is to “empower everyone with open source geospatial”. Let us help you choose an open source technology for you and your team:
CHOOSE A PROJECT - guided search to answer the question where do I start
Why open source?
Open source provides not an alternative but a revolution for the GIS community. Take control of your future:
MIGRATE TO OPEN SOURCE GIS - need someone with industry background to write this. Assume we need a stack diagram with commercial and open source projects arranged in tiers along with the a couple ways to migrate: 1) start new projects with open source, gradual transition 2) hybrid mix and match using standards 3) part of a migration to cloud 4) focus on transitioning the majority of workforce, leaving small pockets of proprietary …
WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE - focus on the basics this is level I
CHOOSING OPEN GEOSPATIAL - introduce free and open and apply the concepts to open data, open education, open science, … this is level II Join our community
We are a volunteer organization dedicated to bringing open geospatial to you. We provide local chapters in your region, a science and academic network of labs, and an ecosystem of service providers. We look forward to meeting you.
WELCOME - intro to open source and open data, we can cross link friends like OSM and some initiatives like UN Open GIS
CONNECT WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY - talk about how support works, introduce local chapters and service providers, provide on ramp to discover local chapter
OPEN SOURCE IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION - intro to open science and open education, introduce geoforall labs
In last week’s meeting I was asked to replace the placeholder text on the home page - and indeed this is my only personal goal for volunteering the weekend.
Right now we have:
Choose a project With navigation to:
CHOOSE A PROJECT
Why open source? With navigation to:
MIGRATE TO OPEN SOURCE GIS
OPEN SOURCE IN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION - explains geoforall and open geoscience work
WHAT IS OPEN SOURCE
Join our community
With navigation to:
WHY CHOOSE OPEN SOURCE
CONNECT WITH LOCAL COMMUNITY - covers local chapters and service providers
Review:
I am sure we made of some of these navigations quickly, but I like the progression of ideas - and focus on people who are not part of our community … yet
During FOSS4GE some of the feedback / buzz around the conference was the difference between “open source” and “free and open”. And I felt that feedback when presenting this website/rebranding project.
I would like to add something on “free and open”. While I feel strongly we cannot put “free and open” on everything (as was requested for brochure feedback) because we have not introduced the term yet so it would not help communication at this stage. I think the concept is important to introduce.
The “join our community” heading is the only awkward one - it is not strictly speaking on point (focus is asking visitors to consider open source for the first time). Still with our “open geospatial” component we do offer more than just open source … Going to see if I can write this to be links to our Community > Welcome pages. I guess this is not technically about the mechanics of joining our community - the goal is to motivate visitors to reach out to us by sharing what our community offers participants
