<div>Sure thing bruce; I suspect I am supposed to start a wiki page with the agenda.
</div><div>Let me hunt that down and get back to you...</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>Aside: I am at spatial@gov this week; send some of your co-workers over to talk to me.</div>-- <br>Jody Garnett<br><div><br></div></div>
<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Tuesday, 15 November 2011 at 8:43 AM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div>Jody,</div><div><br></div><div>Can we please revisit the Rasdaman community's application for incubation</div><div>with OSGeo? The original request is at [1].</div><div><br></div><div>This has been outstanding for nearly two years.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have been monitoring Rasdaman community mailing lists over this period and</div><div>am please to report that:</div><div><br></div><div>- a vibrant community is starting to develop with a marked increase in</div><div>momentum over the last six months;</div><div><br></div><div>- most discussions appear to be occurring on public mailing lists;</div><div><br></div><div>- a process is in place to capture source code contributions, together with</div><div>an assignment of IP rights, see [2];</div><div><br></div><div>- new developers joining the community from outside of the original</div><div>developers of the software. This includes at least one additional developer</div><div>being granted commit rights to the source code repository;</div><div><br></div><div>- there is work underway to integrate Rasdaman with key OSGeo projects such</div><div>as GDAL and MapServer. There is also activity on package management via rpm</div><div>underway that I anticipate will result in liaison with the OSGeo Enterprise</div><div>Linux community;</div><div><br></div><div>- Key Rasdaman community members are also very active within the OGC</div><div>Community and actively leading and contributing to the development and</div><div>enhancement of a number of standards, including a new version of the</div><div>coverage model, as well as WCS 2.0.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Given the positive trend, I believe that it is time for the Incubation</div><div>Community to revisit this application with a view to admitting Rasdaman into</div><div>incubation.</div><div><br></div><div>For your consideration.</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce Bannerman</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/553">http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/553</a></div><div><br></div><div>[2] </div><div><br></div><div>_______________________________________________</div><div>Incubator mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Incubator@lists.osgeo.org">Incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a></div><div><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator</a></div></div></div></span>
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