<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Milo van der Linden <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:milo@dogodigi.net" target="_blank">milo@dogodigi.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Being a "don't talk, act" member since 2008, entrepreneur and former chairman of a couple of local initiatives, I strongly agree.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Seeing all the "empty talkers" from my country run for charter membership and still not having geoserver, which is the most mature open geospatial product I can think of pas incubation made me completely lose interest in OSGeo.</p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi Milo,</div><div>to be completely honest, I cannot put an ounce of blame on OSGeo for GeoServer not graduating quickly, the goals were there and were clear and GeoServer was basically satisfying all but one of them from day one: unfortunately we failed to execute on the IP review, which is a manual, long, boring task, mostly because we were too busy with other stuff.</div><div>Eventually Jody managed to wrangle volunteers at a code sprint, got every single file checked/fixed/reported, and voilà, shortly after we passed graduation.</div><div><br></div><div>Other foundations have a dedicated team to do IP reviews, but those are paid staff, not sure OSGeo can afford that... on the other side, every project with a large code base will have a hard time putting aside the time to go though every single file to check for IP violations.</div><div><br></div><div>Just my 2 (euro) cents ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Andrea</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>==</div><div>GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit</div><div><a href="http://goo.gl/it488V" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/it488V</a> for more information.</div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">==</span><br></div></div><div><br></div></div><div>Ing. Andrea Aime <br></div><div>@geowolf</div><div>Technical Lead</div><div><br></div><div>GeoSolutions S.A.S.</div><div>Via Poggio alle Viti 1187</div><div>55054 Massarosa (LU)</div><div>Italy</div><div>phone: +39 0584 962313</div><div>fax: +39 0584 1660272</div><div>mob: +39 339 8844549</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.geo-solutions.it" target="_blank">http://www.geo-solutions.it</a></div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it</a></div><div><br></div><div><p><span lang="IT"><font size="1"><b>AVVERTENZE AI SENSI DEL D.Lgs. 196/2003</b></font></span></p><p><span lang="IT"><font size="1">Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica e/o nel/i file/s allegato/i sono da considerarsi strettamente riservate. Il loro utilizzo è consentito esclusivamente al destinatario del messaggio, per le finalità indicate nel messaggio stesso. Qualora riceviate questo messaggio senza esserne il destinatario, Vi preghiamo cortesemente di darcene notizia via e-mail e di procedere alla distruzione del messaggio stesso, cancellandolo dal Vostro sistema. Conservare il messaggio stesso, divulgarlo anche in parte, distribuirlo ad altri soggetti, copiarlo, od utilizzarlo per finalità diverse, costituisce comportamento contrario ai principi dettati dal D.Lgs. 196/2003.</font></span></p><p><span lang="IT"><font size="1"> </font></span></p><p><font size="1">The information in this message and/or attachments, is intended solely for the attention and use of the named addressee(s) and may be confidential or proprietary in nature or covered by the provisions of privacy act (Legislative Decree June, 30 2003, no.196 - Italy's New Data Protection Code).Any use not in accord with its purpose, any disclosure, reproduction, copying, distribution, or either dissemination, either whole or partial, is strictly forbidden except previous formal approval of the named addressee(s). If you are not the intended recipient, please contact immediately the sender by telephone, fax or e-mail and delete the information in this message that has been received in error. The sender does not give any warranty or accept liability as the content, accuracy or completeness of sent messages and accepts no responsibility for changes made after they were sent or for other risks which arise as a result of e-mail transmission, viruses, etc.</font></p></div><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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