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@…,
• improve/create translation (documentation, website, application, training materials) in French

Backwards Compatibility Issues

None.

Risks

None.

Participants

• Pierre, Etienne, Francois, Mathieu