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<p>On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 03:30:43 +0900, Venkatesh Raghavan
<raghavan@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #000000; padding-right: 0px;
padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;">On 2015/11/27 3:04,
Phillip Davis wrote:<br> > Open source tools, like NASA WorldWind....<br>
Would be great if it could be included as a part of the OSGeo-Live </blockquote>
<p> </p>
<p>Hi All -</p>
<p> </p>
<p> regarding WorldWind, in the early days of my involvement here at
OSGeo.org, I met with Patrick Hogan and some of his devs at length. I feel there
is a standing invitation for cooperation, and have had good rapport with Patrick
whenever I run into him since then.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> As far as some of the larger sentiments expressed earlier about the role
and nature of OSGeo.. I sense that there are definitely deeper expressions of
how to live a life and the nature of intellectual contributions and
collaboration, at work underneath the discussion. Similar deeper currents of how
to live life have guided me here also. However, individually and as a dot-org,
we must meet and interoperate with the mechanisms of law and culture of the
times we live in.. Specifically, a dot-org has legal rights and
responsibilities, and many of those rights and responsibilites are written in
law relating to property, ownership and the like. This is not always immediately
reconcilable with deeper currents of participatory intellectual collaboration.
virtue, moral and ethical choice. These apparent conflicts are not a new
challenge for those that are cultivating positive qualities in themselves and
others.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> I am probably over-generalizing when I say this, but .. I believe that the
OSGeo Live 9.0 was the best release ever, and internally, brought about a
re-invigoration of the Debian-GIS project, which now has over 100 packages ready
to install (again) in synch with current development. The combination of
OSGeo.org's OSGeo-Live and Debian-GIS, is structurally very, very solid to move
forward in multiple directions, including education. As always, we must weigh
gratitude to the Debian project, along with the needs and realities of brand and
IP of OSGeo.org, moving forward.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> for those that are interested in the OSGeo-Live project, I will include a
short list of priorities I have identified for the coming development cycle, in
collaboration with my fellow Project Steering Committee members:</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Priorities for the Next OSGeo-Live Development Cycle (dbb)</p>
<p>=======================================================</p>
<p>- review projects for retirement</p>
<p>- prioritize the SciPy python stack, netcdf and related .. emphasize Python
2x for this dev cycle, with Python 3x as appropriate</p>
<p>- review the role of IPython Notebook "next gen" called project Jupyter.. see
how it could fit</p>
<p>- carefully attend to the relationship to the Debian GIS stack.. understand
their roadmap</p>
<p>- reach out to the QGis project, make sure they are presented in a way that
benefits both OSGeo and QGis</p>
<p>- reach out to the OpenStreetmap devs, see if we can have ANY communication
this time</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Vision Statements for the Next OSGeo-Live Development Cycle (dbb)</p>
<p>=======================================================</p>
<p>* OSGeo.org has struggled to make an impact .. the presence is not strong,
and with recent advances by others, OSGeo is by comparison a weaker entity that
it was in 2012, in my view, however, the shipping of OSGeo-Live 9 was the best
ever.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>* The OSGeo-Live to me, defines an authoritative install of every part of the
OSGeo IP stack. True to open source priciples, it is completely reproducible in
every part of the build and deploy. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>* We have, through hard work and honest relationships, helped to bring the
Debian GIS stack to life again</p>
<p> </p>
<p>* OSGeo is holding its responsibility as custodian of the most mature, most
impactful IP in the OSS Geo world, with the OSGeo Live; this is not to say that
OSGeo-Live fits every purpose though. as a very strong release, we have multiple
opportunties now. But, we do not have the desire or ability to follow them
all..</p>
<p> </p>
<p>THEREFORE recognize the OSGeo-Live as a dual nature project. ONE is a
DEFINITION of installs for every OSGeo project; TWO is a READY-TO-USE live
disk for education and the sciences. These two points should be guides for
future development decisions.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> best regards from Berkeley, California<br> --<br>Brian M Hamlin<br> OSGeo
California Chapter<br> blog.light42.com<br></p>
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