Reworking FreeGIS categories startet on IRC right now

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Jan-Oliver,

Jan-Oliver Wagner <jan-oliver.wagner at intevation.de>, [20070717 -
09:59:30]

> Hello FreeGIS Team,
> 
> this is just to let you know that we just started
> the discussion on the re-categorisation of FreeGIS.
> Stephan and myself met in real life, the IRC channel is:
> 
>  irc.freenode.net#GAV

Here is the result of todays work on the recategorization and
restructuring of FreeGIS.org. As mentioned in the text there is also
the complete IRC-log available here[1].

Again, thanks for your participation.


Summary of the IRC-meeting for restructuring the FreeGIS.org-portal
--------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 17.07.2007, 10:30 - 17:00 CEST

attendees: sholl, jan_oliver, rnuske, huhabla, FrankW joined later

IRC-Logs can be found here:
http://ftp.freegis.org/freegis/misc/freegis-categorization-20070717-irclog.txt

Following categories are renamed/moved:
* Application:Remote Sensing to Feature:Remote Sensing
* Application:Mobile Geocomputing to Application:Mobile GIS
* Application:Web Mapping to Application:Web GIS
* Application:Base GIS to Application:Desktop GIS
* Application:Misc/Fun to Application:Miscalenous
* Application:SDI to Standards:OGC WMS Client
* Application:coordinate-format transformation to Feature:coordinate
transformation
* Application:file-format transformation to Feature:Data conversion
* Application:GPS to Feature:GPS
* Application:Flights to Feature:Animation


Following categories are added:
* License:GNU GPLv3
* License:GNU GPLv3+
* License:GNU GPLv2+
* Feature:3D
* Features:Animation
* Features:Routing
* Features:Digitization
* Features:Geoprocessing
* Features:Geostatistics
* Features:Geoviewer
* Status:Archived
* Status:Inactive
* Stauts:OSGeo Project
* Status:Debian Package
* Applicaiont:Library
* Application:Database
* Application:OGC WMS Server
* Application:OGC WFS Client
* Application:OGC WFS Server
* Operating System:Other Operating System


Following categories are deleted:
* Application:Visualisation
* Application:Customizable with Add-ons
* Application:Interactice Viewing



Postponed tasks:
----------------
* Discuss a better name for "Feature:Remote Sensing"
* restructuring the top-category "type"


Homeworks:
----------
* @Jan: add a check box "minor change" to avoid emitting an
update-email.
* Prepare a text on the procedure to go through all entries and do the
recatorisation (which is at the same time a call for participation).
* Next to this a call for volunteers. It would make fun to arrange
another IRC session where people



Best regards

	Stephan

[1]
http://ftp.freegis.org/freegis/misc/freegis-categorization-20070717-irclog.txt

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