<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite" class="clean_bq" style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span>I agree with Jody, the merge is not a possibility now, while single <br>projects can belong to both organisations. For sure we can join forces<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>on specific activities, like organising events.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><p>I am not sure I like the idea of a merge - OSGeo has a darn good mandate: <i>support the collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use!</i></p><p>I would rather we hang out and support spatial projects where ever we find them (Eclipse, Apache SFS, KDE, etc...). Each one of those groups narrows its focus based on ideology - we are not so constrained - giving us an opportunity to do a lot of good.</p><p>One thing we could do, to encourage projects to belong to both, is recognise foundations we trust[1]. A formal IP review done by the Eclipse Foundation could easily cover the "code review" requirement for potential OSGeo projects.</p><p>However our incubation process is much stricter in a few senses then the Eclipse Foundation one, we try and check a projects viability (committers from more than one organisation, evidence of user and developer community collaborating on QA). So I would not be surprised of viable LocationTech projects, like JTS, not being able to pass OSGeo Incubation.</p><p>--</p><p>Jody</p><p>[1] As an example Eclipse "trusts" Apache Foundation, so if you go to use an Apache project, it immediately gets a thumbs up form their IP department.</p></body></html>