= Creation of a french community =

|| '''Date''' || 2008/11/05 ||
|| '''Contact(s)''' || Pierre, Francois ||
|| '''Last edited''' || [[Timestamp]] ||
|| '''Status''' || Proposed for vote ||
|| '''Assigned to release''' || none ||
|| '''Resources''' || Brgm, Camptocamp, any others participants welcomed ||

== Overview ==

For two years, a "french" community gathering national and local
authorities, national geographic survey, public organisations,
associations,... developped a "french flavour" of geonetwork. 

!GeoSource implements mainly :
 * definition of french iso profil,
 * support for INSPIRE metadata requirements (INSPIRE theme, conformity, INSPIRE view),
 * improve french translation and documentation,
 * add multilingual support to schematron validation, installer, gast.

Since January 2007, a specific community infrastructure has been used :
https://adullact.net/projects/geocatalogue/.

Therefore, only a few interactions occurs between !GeoSource and GeoNetwork project after its first release. !GeoSource Version 2 is more aligned to GeoNetwork trunk. Some patches were proposed to integration to trunk (see SelectionManager, MetadataImport proposals).


=== Proposal Type ===
 * '''Type''': Community
 * '''App''': !GeoNetwork
 * '''Module''': 

=== Links ===
 * '''Documents''':
 * '''Email discussions''':
 * '''Other wiki discussions''':

=== Voting History ===
 * Vote proposed by Pierre on GN devels and GN users mailing lists, result was +/-n (m non-voting members).

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== Motivations ==
 * Improve synergies between !GeoSource and GeoNetwork project (merge, documentation, communication, ...)


== Proposal == 
In order to encourage synergies between the two projects :
 * create a sandbox for !GeoSource project in sourceforge repository 
 * create a french mailing list (mainly from user perspective) : geonetwork-users-fr@lists.sourceforge.net, 
 * improve/create translation (documentation, website, application, training materials) in French

=== Backwards Compatibility Issues ===
None.

== Risks ==
None.  

== Participants ==
 * Pierre, Etienne, Francois, Mathieu