WebCom Folks,
What do you all think of the idea of a "FOSS4G in the Media" queue
on the osgeo web site? It would be something like the news queue, but
pointing to articles in the media about FOSS4G that we consider constructive.
Stuff like the Geoconnexion articles for instance:
http://www.geoconnexion.com/geo_issue/March_2008
Grass Open Source GIS
I'd be willing to have the news editor(s) take on the role (ie. just email
suggestions to news_item@osgeo.org) but I don't know how to setup the
web site machinery to make this work.
PS. I'm afraid I haven't done a good job on following up on the "spotlights"
effort. I'm still interested in helping with this, but seem to lack the
ambition to really push it. Anyone interested in doing so?
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Spotlights
Best regards,
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Frank, I think that's a great idea.
I'm sure that there are lots of news/magazine articles that mention the
use of open source geospatial, and we could probably communicate with
the projects to make sure that they know to let us know when they get
mentioned.
Unfortunately, I don't have a great understanding of how we could add
this "list-of-links" to Drupal, and I'd imagine that Wolf is a bit busy
with GSoC right now 
The time I have available to devote to this committee has dropped
radically in the last year, and I'm definitely feeling some guilt around
this, but not enough to reprioritize it. If someone else is interested
in getting involved and taking WebCom to new heights, I certainly
wouldn't object.
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam
Subject: [Webcom] FOSS4G in the Media
What do you all think of the idea of a "FOSS4G in the Media" queue
on the osgeo web site? It would be something like the news queue, but
pointing to articles in the media about FOSS4G that we consider
constructive.
I like the idea too. To do this you basically need to create a custom content type, like the news items. I'm not sure where I've documented this process, but it's not too onerous. You give your type a name, then you select/define what kinds of fields of info you will store with the type. You can also just choose predefined fields (e.g. ones used in our news items) and go from there.
Here is a screencast of the process that might apply:
http://www.usingdrupal.com/node/4
Tyler
On 14-Apr-08, at 8:16 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
WebCom Folks,
What do you all think of the idea of a "FOSS4G in the Media" queue
on the osgeo web site? It would be something like the news queue, but
pointing to articles in the media about FOSS4G that we consider constructive.
Stuff like the Geoconnexion articles for instance:
http://www.geoconnexion.com/geo_issue/March_2008
Grass Open Source GIS
I'd be willing to have the news editor(s) take on the role (ie. just email
suggestions to news_item@osgeo.org) but I don't know how to setup the
web site machinery to make this work.
PS. I'm afraid I haven't done a good job on following up on the "spotlights"
effort. I'm still interested in helping with this, but seem to lack the
ambition to really push it. Anyone interested in doing so?
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Spotlights
Best regards,
--
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I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmerdam@pobox.com
light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
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