[Incubator] Recommend Graduation of Rasdaman from OSGeo Incubation

[Peter Baumann]

Hi all,

I see that some traffic has been going on here, now I can take up on it again
following sort of international "event hopping", such as review of a large
project I was coordinating.

- First, I see that some questions have been posed. Honestly, my idea was that
these would be collected during the incubation voting, similar to what we just
have exercised in the adoption of a Policy Document in OGC.
- Therefore, I am trying to find out regulations of such motions to understand
better (in particular as I realize that only 4 people have spoken up, from a
committee that is said [1] to have 20+ members):
    what is the status of votes cast?
    what is the committee's approach when quorum is not reached?
    voting commenced on Oct 16 so closed by Oct 29 midnight (10 biz days), Jody
decided to cancel after that period (Oct 30); this puzzles me.
    where are the procedures laid down so that I can learn these details? Could
not find anything on [1].

Hope that you can help me to understand better what the rules & procedures are
for such a vote.

thanks,
Peter

[1] http://www.osgeo.org/incubator

On 10/20/2014 04:12 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Thanks for the nomination Bruce.
>
> As this list sees such low traffic/participation we have struggled to reach
> quorum. I would like to keep this motion open for two weeks (10 business days)
> to allow members to review and vote.
> --
> Jody
>
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Bruce Bannerman
> <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com <mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     Project:                    Rasdaman
>
>     Project Contact:       Peter Baumann
>
>     Project Mentor:        Bruce Bannerman
>
>
>     Recommendation:   Rasdaman to Graduate from OSGeo Incubation
>
>
>     Incubation Checklist:  http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist
>      
>
>
>
>     Comments:
>
>     I have been monitoring and participating in the Rasdaman Community
>     developer and user email lists for over four years. I plan to continue to
>     participate within the community.
>
>     It has been pleasing to see how the community has evolved over this time
>     to develop effective, open and robust processes.
>
>     I recommend to other FOSS4G communities to review what has been done, as
>     you may well find that Rasdaman offers a compelling solution for the
>     management of multi-dimensional array or gridded data that your project
>     may be able to capitalise on.
>
>     A summary of community activity may be found at:
>     https://www.openhub.net/p/rasdaman
>
>     Key project members are active within both OSGeo and the OGC.
>
>     Within the OGC they have successfully guided a range of standards to
>     support mutltidimensional array (gridded) data which have culminated
>     (currently) in Web Coverage Service version 2.0 and a suite of extensions,
>     see: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs
>
>     The project's principal, Professor Peter Baumann was also recently awarded
>     OGC's prestigious Kenneth D Gardels award for his contributions to OGC.
>
>
>
>     After having participated within the community for four years and having
>     reviewed their OSGeo Project Graduation Checklist, I believe that Rasdaman
>     Community have fulfilled the requirements of OSGeo Incubation and are
>     eligible to graduate as an OSGeo Project.
>
>
>     The only reservation that I have is over the dual licensing model that is
>     used by the sponsoring company, Rasdaman GmbH. See:
>     http://www.rasdaman.com/Product/commercial+free.php
>      
>
>
>     There are two versions: Community (GPL and LGPL) and Enterprise (free from
>     GPL constraints).
>
>     The main difference between the two versions is summarised at:
>     http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Features
>      
>
>
>     This dual licensing may create a problem for the Rasdaman Community in the
>     future should Rasdaman GmbH decide to sell its stake in the Rasdaman
>     Enterprise version of the software. We have already seen a similar
>     situation arise after the sale of MySQL which was similarly licensed.
>
>     However as the community edition of the software is released under open
>     source licenses, I expect that the main impact would be to the continuity
>     of the Rasdaman Community in its current form. In the event of a sale, we
>     may see the software forked, as happened with MySQL.
>
>     For consideration and vote.
>
>     Bruce
>
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