Should we draw organizations from fossfoundation.info?

[ShaneCurcuru]

Since maintaining updated lists of orgs is often hard, is there interest in automatically building part of the Organizations listing for this site from this metadata directory?

https://fossfoundation.info/

Key tasks would be:

• Defining what orgs are wanted in this site's listing (plus minimal number of fields to display)
• Ensuring metadata exists in the directory to select those orgs
• Building a simplistic data updater (either cron to update static listing, or turn part of the organizations page into a JS lookup to the other site)
• Working with both communities to help keep the fossfoundation.info directory updated.

Obviously this only would cover non-profit FOSS Foundations, and this academic map may want to include selected other OSPO or corporate organizations, but I think it would cover most of the need here.

[RichardLitt]

I think part of it would be good - I don't want to autofill all of the data without being able to edit it, but automatically generating stubs that can be thrown into this map would be excellent.

Is all of the data coming from here? https://github.com/Punderthings/fossfoundation/tree/main/_foundations

I wonder if the easiest way to do this might be for you and I to pair program over a hangout.

[RichardLitt]

Hey, @ShaneCurcuru - just checking in on my questions above.

[ShaneCurcuru]

Apologies for the delay. Yes, my aim is to provide some simple OpenAPI-discoverable and schema'd REST URL to GET, from which you can get a list of foundations available, or can get one foundation's .md file, which can be parsed as the first YAML document (i.e. the frontmatter).

See draft ideas below; after FOSS Backstage I will be looking for collaborators and really trying to get at least a v1.0 API done, since there may be a couple of places that want to have a specific way to reference a foundation (or other entity).

https://github.com/Punderthings/fossfoundation/blob/main/_pages/openapi.md

[RichardLitt]

Sweet. Thanks, @ShaneCurcuru. I won't have time to work on this until after FOSS Backstage, so I'll check back in then. Have fun!

[RichardLitt]

How did FOSS Backstage go? :)