Tweaking Farallon case study for wider distribution?

[Karl Fogel]

Dennis et al,

I was wondering if on http://code.google.com/p/eas we should link to
this case study:

http://www.fargeo.com/casestudies/detail/enterprise-addressing-system-for-the-city-of-san-francisco/

In fact I was about to just do so, but then I saw it was perhaps a bit
out-of-date, in that it doesn't mention the City of San Francisco's
involvement in the development of the software.

Is there a more up-to-date case study available to link to? Or would it
be possible to just update that one?

(IMHO it's fine for the EAS front page to link directly to material at
fargeo, by the way. As other vendors contribute, we'll treat them the
same way -- the point is to make material available that will help
potential users see what EAS does and whether it would help them.)

Best,
-Karl

[Dennis Wuthrich]

Karl,

That case study is the most recent version that I know of. We could update it, what edits did you have in mind?

Dennis

Sent from my iPad

[McCullough, Paul]

To those that will be working on the wiki migration...

We are deferring this work until we wrap up the 1.0 deploy (end of next week?)

But I wanted to provide some info that I just found.
We have been planning to generate google wiki pages from HTML pages exported from Jira.

Well, if you look at this page:
http://eas.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/docs/html/deployment_and_technologies.html

Now look at the source for the image at the bottom....its pointing to jira.
Not sure how to resolve this but wanted everyone to know about it.

Thanks,
Paul

[Karl Fogel]

Dennis Wuthrich <dwuthr...@gmail.com> writes:
>That case study is the most recent version that I know of. We could
>update it, what edits did you have in mind?

Er, well, I could write them, I guess, but I was hoping to outsource
that to Fargeo :-).

Actually, the text of the page has changed since I last looked at it on
Tuesday, and there's no longer an issue: it mentions SF's involvement
now. Not sure who made the edits.

Basically, I was saying that SF's involvement in the development of EAS
should be mentioned; this really applies to any case studies or press
releases [1]. The old text of the page didn't do that... but it does
now. All thanks to the magic gnomes, whoever they may be!

Just to check: does anyone here object if we link to this from the EAS
home page, and even have a "case studies" or "press" section in the long
run?

-Karl

[1] This other press release, for example, doesn't mention City of SF
involvement in development, and implies that the software was
deployed in January when in fact Paul is about to deploy it now
(oddly, it does mention Civic Commons, which is nice, but certainly
SF's involvement is much greater and they should be mentioned first):

http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/opengeo-and-farallon-geographics-announce-partnership-to-offer-open-source-/165743

However, that one's already gone out, so I understand if there's no
ability to update it now.

I know I'm being a bit of a bear about crediting, but I think it's
important that all parties' roles be described accurately, for all
sorts of reasons. I do understand that sometimes the people who
write press releases are not intimiately involved with development
and may miss important details, so I'm just trying to point out a
place where it matters, not assign blame.

This has been such a long post-scriptoral footnote that I think I'll
sign the message again!

-Karl