<blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div><div>Have there been any progress on links with this new geo centred open source</div><div>foundation group?</div></div></div></span></blockquote><div>Arnulf covered the formal arrangements. </div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div><div>How is this going to affect the official osgeo's projects? Will there be</div><div>common projects to both foundations? If so, will there be 2 repositories?</div><div>Will funding raised by Eclipse LIWG reach projects on OSGeo?</div></div></div></span></blockquote><div>My take is that OSGeo is focused on fostering open source spatial, our mandate allows us to work with projects wherever we find them (LocationTech, Apache etc…).</div><div><br></div><div>I got to cover this in a recent presentation on OSGeo and Incubation (http://how2map.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/osgeo-incubation-start-of-something.html). Hopefully I did the topic justice.</div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div><div>It seems a discussion started on this but ended up disussing an embassador</div><div>role... did anyone attend their 1st meeting after all?</div></div></div></span></blockquote><div>I have been attending the LocationTech meetings, the uDig project I work on has a <a href="http://locationtech.org/proposals/user-friendly-desktop-internet-gis-udig">proposal</a> to join LocationTech (in part because it is an Eclipse RCP project). So far it has been educational experience comparing the incubation process between the foundations (and a bit of a pain <a href="http://udig-news.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/udig-change-to-epl-and-bsd-license.html">selecting a license</a> compatible with the Eclipse foundation).</div><blockquote type="cite" style="border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;"><span><div><div><div>Just trying to figure this new reality out...</div></div></div></span></blockquote><div>I think it is the same reality :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Jody</div>