How to inform FreeGIS (was: [Freegis-list] seagis)

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 09:16:04AM -0500, Allan Doyle wrote:
> On Sunday 2002-03-03 at 11:38:49(+0100) Walter Harms wrote:

>  > Please tell us more about what you want. Inform berhand ? i guess the *lsm is ok.  Or should he place a link to your CVS-server (webcvs). So ppl can look at it (i guess berhand will like this :)

> It's not so much "what I want", it's "what will make the FreeGIS
> people's lives easier?

Though started by the founders of Intevation,
we want FreeGIS to be a community effort.
Thus any help is appreciated.

We also try to maintain a high standard on the quality of the information.
Thus we check each entry or update manually.

> In other words XML encoded project metadata.
> 
> Then an automatic harvester could check for updates to this and add
> them into the FreeGIS database. Or people could send an email to
> FreeGIS when an update occurs, or better yet, could HTTP POST to a URL
> on the FreeGIS site that has an update CGI script behind it.

Right now the easiest for us is if the projects
write mail to either the full list or the smaller team@ list.
Depending on how useful the update information are for the bigger audience.

We still have to add the technical capabilities to 
accept update request in different formats and then moderate them.
This is planed for the future but it might take some time.

	Bernhard

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