<div>The following application was mentioned in our last meeting, but not discussed. </div><div><br></div><div>Application here: <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/910">http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/910</a> GisClient OS Project submssion to the OsGeo Incubator Committee</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>The actual application is supplied as an ODT file:</div><div>- http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/raw-attachment/ticket/910/GisClient%20for%20OsGeo.odt</div><div><br></div><div>In the interests of getting things moving I have copied the text after the break...</div><div>-- </div><div>Jody Garnett<br></div><div><br></div><div>
<p align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>GisClient Incubator
Application Questionnaire</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">1. <b>Please provide the name and email
address of the principal Project Owner.</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Project name: GisClient</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">website: www.gisclient.org</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Project Owner: Roberto Starnini</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Project Contact:
roberto.starnini@gisweb.it</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">2. <b>Please provide the names and
emails of co-project owners (if any).</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Co-project owner: Francesco D'Alesio</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Co-project owner contact:
francesco@r3-gis.com
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">3. <b>Please provide the names, emails
and entity affiliation of all official committers</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Roberto Starnini</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Gis&Web srl</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Via Gramsci 27/9</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">16126 Genova</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">www.gisweb.it</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">tel. +39.010.247.44.91</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">fax. +39.010.941.21.32</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">roberto.starnini@gisweb.it</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Francesco D'Alesio</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">R3-GIS s.r.l.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Merano (BZ), Italy
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">www. r3-gis.com
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Via Johann Kravogl, 2</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">39012 Merano (BZ)</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Tel. +39 0473 494949</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Fax +39 0473 069902</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">francesco@r3-gis.com
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">4. <b>Please describe your Project.</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">GisClient is a web authoring tool
configurator for GIS projects.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">GisClient3 is an open source software
written in AJAX, Javascript, PHP/MapScript that allows to configure a
range of tools and functionalities easily and quickly. It works as a
web authoring tool configurator for MapServer and enables to both
build up Mapfiles and provide OpenLayers maps. Designed for
interoperability, GisClient3 publishes data from any major spatial
data source using open standards.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Improving interoperability among the
open source GIS softwares is one of the GisClient aims, that's why at
the moment we are working on making GisClient3 able to create config
files for a wider stack of components and, in addition, we are
developing standard interfaces (such as MapContex and OWSContext).</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">5. <b>Why is hosting at OSGeo good for
your project?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Being hosted at OSGeo would be good for
us, cause we think that would help in spreading out the project on a
global scale. Our aim is to involve as many users as possible to try
and test GisClient, and possibly find more developers, interested in
taking part in the project and collaborate.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">6. <b>Type of application does this
project represent(client, server, standalone, library, etc.)</b>:
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Server</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">7. <b>Please describe any relationships
to other open source projects.</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">a. GisClient is based on MapServer as
map server
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">b. It uses Postgre/PostGis as aDB</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">c. It uses OpenLayers libraries</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">8. <b>Please describe any relationships
with commercial companies or products.</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Gis&Web s.r.l. is a small Italian
company in Genova, Italy. In the last years, most of the GIS
products, applications and services offered by Gis &Web have been
based on GisClient.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Actually GisClient hasn't started as a
proper open source project, but as a solution to respond the users
needs and expectations. In most cases Gis&Web customers are
Municipalities and Local Authorities. They use GisClient as a tool
to manage the spatial data they are in charge of collect.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In terms of field of applications Local
Authorities have been using GisClient in urban planning, land use,
tourism and heritage management, mobility management.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">GisClient has also been applied by the
University of Genova to reaserch activities in the environmental
monitoring sector, both in marine protected and portual areas.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">As a commercial product, GisClient it
has been used as a tool to manage utilities networs by Iren, an
Italian society operating in the sector pertaining to the water cycle
and to gas distribution.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Not only Gis&Web but also, R3-GIS,
an Italian company in Merano, has based most of its commercial offer
on GisClient. They developed different web gis products for
management of green areas, playgrounds, traffic signs, pipelines and
technological networks, environmental monitoring systems, CO2
Emission Monitoring Systems, Tourism Portals, etc.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">9. <b>Which open source license(s) will
the source code be released under?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">GPL3</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">10. <b>Is there already a beta or
official release?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">It is. It can be downloaded on
<a href="http://www.gisclient.org/download">www.gisclient.org/download</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">At the moment we are working on user
documentation.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">11. <b>What is the origin of your
project (commercial, experimental, thesis or other higher education,
government, or some other source)?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Commercial</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">12. <b>Does the project support open
standards?</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"> YES</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">13. <b>Which ones and to what extent?</b>
(OGC, w3c, ect.)
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">OGC, W3C and INSPIRE for Metadata</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">14. <b>Has the software been certified
to any standard (CITE for example)?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">NO</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">15. <b>If not, is it the intention of
the project owners to seek certification at some point?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">We haven't thought about that yet.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">16. <b>Is the code free of patents,
trademarks, and do you control the copyright?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Yes it is
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">17. <b>How many people actively
contribute (code, documentation, other?)</b> <b>to the project at
this time? </b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">5</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">18. <b>How many people have commit
access to the source code respository?</b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">5</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">19. <b>Approximately how many users are
currently using this project?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Being a web application, it is not easy
to “count” them, but including the ones who use GisClient base
web application developed by Gis&Web, Iren and R3-Gis the total
amount of users will be more than 500.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">20. <b>What type of users does your
project attract (government, commercial, hobby, academic research,
etc. )?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">all of them</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">21. <b>If you do not intend to host any
portion of this project using the OSGeo infrastructure, why should
you be considered a member project of the OSGeo Foundation?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In our vision on how to develop
GisClient we share most of the OSGeo Foundation objectives.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In facts:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">We aim to promote the use of open
source software in the geospatial industry and by the Goverments.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">We aim to support the implementation of
open standards and standards-based interoperability through our
project.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Taking part in the OsGeo Conferences
(e.g. Barcelona 2009, Prague 2012), we give our contribution to
improve the internationalization of software and of the community. We
presented GisClient on occasion of the <a href="http://www.gisclient.org/news/gisclient3-at-foss4g-prague-2012">last
Foss4G Conference in Prague</a>.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">22.<b>
Does the project include an automated build and test? </b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">No</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">23.
<b>What language(s) are used in this project?
(C/Java/perl/etc) </b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Php/Javascript</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">24.<b>
What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French, Spanish,
German, etc) of the core developers? </b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">English</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">25.
<b>What is the (estimated) size of a full release of this
project?</b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">50 Mb</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">26.<b>
How many users do you expect to download the project when it is
released? </b>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">2000</p></div></div>