Like all active Open Source projects, GeoNode has a community of users and developers that help each other solve issues using, managing or developing on the platform who and work together collaboratively to do so. If you are going to be using GeoNode for your project, you should immediately join this community and begin to participate. Your mentor will help you introduce yourself to the community and let them know what you are working on so you can find others trying to solve similar problems or who may have guidance for you as you embark on your project. Reference the section on Open Source Etiquette above if you are unsure of the best way to join and participate in an open source community. Your mentor will guide you on your journey and you will soon be one of the community helping others help themselves.
Goals/Objectives/Outcomes
- Understand the wide range of GeoNode community resources available
- Begin participation in the GeoNode users and developers mailing list
- Understand how to search the GeoNode mailing list archives
- Understand how to look for answers to GeoNode questions on the web
- Begin participation in region specific GeoNode community forums
- Understand how the main GeoNode GitHub project repository is setup and how to participate
- Understand the purpose of other projects in the GeoNode GitHub organization
- Understand how GeoNode’s documentation system works and how to use it effectively
- Understand how the GeoNode build process works and where the various packages are available
- Understand that GeoNode is based on various other open source projects and that each of these have their own community that are also a resource the participant should leverage
Reference Material
- http://geonode.org/
- http://docs.geonode.org/en/master/
- https://github.com/GeoNode
- http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geonode-devel
- http://lists.osgeo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geonode-users
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/geonode-users
- https://groups.google.com/a/opengeo.org/forum/#!forum/geonode-dev
- http://geonode.readthedocs.org/en/latest/organizational/community_resources.html
- http://geoserver.org/
- http://postgis.org/
- http://pycsw.org/
Measures of Success
- Participant has demonstrated their familiarity with the range of GeoNode and other open source community resources available to them
- Participant has begun participating in the main GeoNode community groups (mailing list, github etc)
- Participant has demonstrated their familiarity with GeoNode’s documentation and the documentation of other projects that GeoNode is built on
- Participant understands the basics of the GeoNode release cycle and where to look for packages for their specific platform