Marketing Artefacts

The page defines the Marketing Artefacts required to make effective use of the OSGeo Marketing Pipeline. This list is to be referenced during the OSGeo Incubation process to ensure a project supports OSGeo marketing requirements.

Application Overview

Description

A marketing overview of each application, targeted at a someone considering using GeoSpatial Open Source, who may be a GeoSpatial User, or Technical person without much geospatial expertise.

Each overview is to be available as HTML (for OSGeo Live and websites), as 1 a page PDF, (to hand out as a flier at conferences, and as a page in the OSGeo Book of projects), and as Word/OpenOffice (to be cut and pasted into project proposals and articles which usually use these formats)

Documentation should a structure similar to the following:

• Overview: Address user questions of "What does the application do?", "When would I use it?", "Why would I use it over other applications?", "How mature is the application and how widely deployed is it?". Don't mention licence or open source in this section.
• An image or 2, as per #Graphical_Image
• Core Features: A list of the application's key features
• Implemented Standards: List of standards
• Application Details:
  • Licence: GPL, LGPL, BSD, ...
  • Maturity: 5 star rating as per #Maturity_Rating
  • Commercial Support: URL to a web page listing companies which provide commercial support
  • URL: Url of the project

How to write an Application Overview is defined here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Overview

Incubation Criteria

Proposed to be required for all projects

Responsibility

Project's team

Logo

Description

For packaged software:

• A 32x32-pixel XPM icon for use by the Debian menus
• A 48x48-pixel PNG icon for use by freedesktop.org menus
• Background color=transparent (not white)
• Logo is also useful for incorporating into diagrams for presentations OSGeo project descriptions

A future requirement would be to provide the logo in larger formats in order to be cut into presentations and similar

• SVG version of the icon(preferable)
• Large PNG versions of the icon - standard size still To be Determined
• GIF versions of the image (PNG images sometimes don't seem to have their background rendered correctly in MS Powerpoint)

Incubation Criteria

Proposed to be required for all projects

Graphical Image

Description

Each project needs to have a .gif image, usually a screen snapshot from a 1024x768 screen, minus desktop toolbars.

To be used in Project Overview, Powerpoint Presentations, etc.

Incubation Criteria

Proposed to be required for all projects

Responsibility

Project's team

Application Quick Start

Description

• Proposed to be introduced for FOSS4G 2010 as part of OSGeo Live DVD 4. It will build upon the existing Test Description.
• Contains detailed steps showing a newbie how run one core use case for the application.
• It should be able to be run in 5 minutes.
• Ideally, it will include screen snapshots, but this is not required yet.
• It may additionally contain extra steps to cover all core functionality
• Finishes with pointers to further training material or documentation.

How to write an Application Quick Start is defined here: Live_GIS_Add_Project#Application_Quick_Start

Incubation Criteria

Proposed OSGeo Incubation Requirement for non libraries from Sept 2010

Responsibility

Project's team

OSGeo-Live Lightening Presentation

Description: This presentation is to be launched at FOSS4G 2010. It will provide a lightening overview of the (approx 40) applications and key OSGeo Libraries on the OSGeo Live DVD/Virtual Machine, with one slide/project. Each slide to take ~ 30 seconds to present. It will also contain a few overview slides (eg: Explaining the relevant project categories)

Requirements from each project

One slide which contains:

• Image as per #Graphical_Image
• Text in notes providing a 30 sec script for the presenter to read. A reference to the one page project overview, to provide the presenter with background information. This should be derived from the #Application_Overview

Responsibility

Project's team to provide project's slide

OSGeo Live Project to compile the remainder of the presentation

Incubation Criteria

Proposed OSGeo Incubation Requirement from Sept 2010

Project Specific Presentation

Description

Up to 20 min presentation for each specific project.

Responsibility

Project's team

Incubation Criteria

Not required for OSGeo Incubation

Maturity Rating

Description

A 5 star rating system to qualify the how established a project is. Rating is to be broken down as follows:

• 5 stars: This rating is yet to be defined, and will not be allocated to projects yet. Project includes bundled software, regular builds, security updates, training, etc.
• 4 stars (mature): Project has passed osgeo incubation as per: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html
• 3.5 stars: Not to be used yet, but may later be introduced for projects which have entered incubation.
• 3 stars (established): Project has Stable Software, a Stable community, is deployed in production systems, and is ready to pass criteria to enter incubation, as per: http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html
• 2 stars (stable): Project has Stable Software.
  • Project produces periodic releases of stable software which is used in production systems.
• 1 star (beta): Project has Beta software.

Responsibility

OSGeo Live team is responsible for ranking. (This responsibility may pass over to the incubation committee)

Incubation Criteria

Required for OSGeo Incubation

OSGeo Live

Description

A DVD and Virtual Machine containing Open Source GeoSpatial Software, handed out at conferences around the world.

Incubation Criteria

OSGeo supported client and server applications are expected to be packaged on the OSGeo Live DVD.

Libraries are not expected to be bundled into OSGeo Live, unless they are incorporated in other applications.

Responsibility

OSGeo Live Project team to create DVD

Projects teams responsible for packaging their software in accordance with packaging guidelines below

Install script

Description

A script to install an application onto the OSGeo Live DVD, as per: Live_GIS_Build#How_to_add_your_project_or_data_to_the_LiveGIS_Disc.2FVM

Responsibility

Project's team

Test Description

Description

Describe how to test if the application runs on the LiveDVD as per: Live_GIS_Disc_Testing (To be replaced by Quick Start from version 4 of the Live DVD in FOSS4G 2010)

Responsibility

Project's team

Test Results

Description

Results from running test procedures for the OSGeo Live DVD as per: Live_GIS_Disc_Testing

Responsibility

Project's team

Glossary

Description

Table of acronyms, their expanded terms, and optionally one sentence explaining the term. Contains terms and accronyms used in the OSGeo Live documentation.

Responsibility

OGC and OSGeo Live team, with contributions from all documenters.

OGC Artefacts

OGC Standard Context Diagrams

Description

Probably 4 or 5 context diagrams visually demonstrating the relationship between standards

Hopefully to be introduced to the Live DVD from FOSS4G 2010

Responsibility

OGC

OGC Standard Definition

Description

1 paragraph

Can be largely derived from: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards (probably targeted as less technical audience)

Covers

• What does the standard cover
• When would you use the standard

Hopefully To be introduced to the Live DVD from FOSS4G 2010

Responsibility

OGC

OGC Standard Overview

Description

1 page overview of an OGC standard to be available as 1 page pdf, 1 page word document and html

Provide a diagram showing the standard in context with other standards

Provide background as to why the standard was developed, including history. What hole does it fill.

Provide examples of where the standard is used

Explain the differences between the different versions of the standard

What is the reference implementation of the standard

See Also: Mention other similar standards

Provide indication about how widely accepted the standard is. How widely has it been deployed, what applications have implemented support, etc.

(Hopefully to be introduced to the Live DVD from FOSS4G 2010)

Responsibility

OGC

Technology Comparisons

• (Possible future OSGeo Incubation Requirement)

Description

Comparisons between similar projects ease the technology selection process for new users wishing to determine which technology is right for them. These technology comparison summaries provide tables list available features and key selection criteria against applications.

Comparison projects:

• Desktop Comparison
• Web Mapping Comparison
• Web Service Comparison
  • See the WMS Shootout. WFS/WCS comparison is still wishware.
• Database Comparison (hopefully will start to be covered at foss4g 2010)
• Web Processing Service Comparison (still wishware)
• Mobile Application Comparison (hopefully introduced through a talk at foss4g2010)

Incubation Criteria

Not required for incubation yet.

Case Studies

Description

Systems architects and project directors reduce project risk by reviewing previous implementations of technologies they are considering. Hence, case studies which describe how Open Source Geospatial has been used in previous project are very valuable. Case Studies from risk adverse organisations (like government) are usually more valuable than those from R&D organisations (like University projects).

Projects should link to case studies. SeeCase Studies and the OSGeo Journal for ideas.

Incubation Criteria

Not required for incubation yet.

Training

Description

Availability of training material for applications.

Training requirements and templates still to be defined.

Incubation Criteria

Not required for incubation yet.

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