Upcoming GeoNode milestones
- From:
- Sebastian Benthall
- Date:
- 2010-05-05 @ 21:34
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Last week Galen (World Bank) and I laid down a rough schedule for upcoming
GeoNode milestones. With the way funding is coming in now and with the
inclusion of Ariel on the team, we are much less tied to the schedules
defined by specific contracts now, so it's possible to use broader brush
strokes.
Here's our schedule for the coming months:
June 1st - Understanding Risk Conference. As much as possible, the World
Bank wants to use this as a time to do promotion around GeoNode. So they
are going to have their new CAPRA Web Site, with hopefully a similarly
themed CAPRA GeoNode with nice data. They will also unveil the Haiti Web
Portals which will be based on GeoNodes. A lot of our work until June will
be in support of this work.
August 1st. -- This is now our target for a GeoNode 1.0 (as in, 1.0 for
real) beta release. These are the feature, roughly, that we are aiming for
this release:
* Data management
* Metadata management
* Search
* Styling
* Users with access control
* As smooth a deployment story as we can get to.
* A batch upload data utility
The idea is that this is a minimum set of functionality that shows off what
GeoNode is capable of and can be deployed usefully as an SDI. More on
scheduling, specification and funding for this forthcoming.
The Bank may be able to enlist testers at this point. Galen knows some
people.
September 1st (No later than) -- GeoNode 1.0 official release. We start
doing a big PR thing around it, and we've been developing Tutorial and
presentation material around it because
September 6th -- FOSS4G2010, we make as big a show of it as we can.
Then, this is so vague that it almost shouldn't be here, but:
February 2011 -- "Virtual Roadshow." By this point we've added a lot more
functionality and start putting out a lot more material about GeoNode up on
the web.
--
Sebastian Benthall
OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org