Creation of a french community

Date	2008/11/05
Contact(s)	Pierre, Francois
Last edited	Timestamp
Status	in progress
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 (definition of french iso profile, support for INSPIRE metadata requirements, improve french translation and documentation, add multilingual support to schematron, installer, ...). This project called "GeoSource" was first released in 2007 and the second will be released at the end 2008.

Proposal Type

• Type: Community
• App: GeoNetwork
• Module:

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• Email discussions:
• Other wiki discussions:

Voting History

• Vote proposed by X on Y, result was +/-n (m non-voting members).

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Motivations

• Improve synergies between GeoSource and GeoNetwork project (merge, documentation, communication, ...)

Proposal

• create a sandbox for geosource project in sourceforge repository
• create a french mailing list (mainly from user perspective) : geonetwork-users-fr@…,
• improve/create translation (documentation, website, application) in French

Backwards Compatibility Issues

Risks

Participants

• Pierre, Etienne, Francois, Mathieu