<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hi Rasdaman Community,</div><div><br></div><div>Can I please get an indication of how many people or organisations are using the community edition of Rasdaman?</div><div><br></div><div>A simple reply to this email sent to <a href="mailto:rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com">rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com</a> with a brief description of your use and how you are finding the functionality of the open source version of the application will suffice.</div><div><br></div><div>This information is required to support the current OSGeo Incubation Committee's assessment of Rasdaman as they consider a motion for Rasdaman to graduate from the graduation process.</div><div><br></div><div>I will direct the committee to your responses.</div><div><br></div><div>I'd appreciate it if we could get responses in the next 48 hours.</div><div><br></div><div>Bruce<br><br><br></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> Frank Warmerdam <<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>><br><b>Date:</b> 21 October 2014 10:30:43 am AEDT<br><b>To:</b> Peter Baumann <<a href="mailto:p.baumann@jacobs-university.de">p.baumann@jacobs-university.de</a>>, Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> "<a href="mailto:Incubator@lists.osgeo.org">Incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Re: [Incubator] Recommend Graduation of Rasdaman from OSGeo Incubation</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Bruce / Peter,<div><br></div><div>I'm curious how widely used the community version of Rasdaman is? I'm ok with dual licensing, but I want to know that the community version is useful, and used, and that folks who want to contribute new features to it (even though replicating enterprise features) are readily accepted. The linked page does make the enterprise version sound a lot better which is ok as long as the community version is useful. Any feedback on that would be helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I hadn't realized this was intended as a motion since Motion did not appear in the title, or email text. If it is an option motion for the incubation committee it is good to make it very clear. </div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Frank</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Jody Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks for the nomination Bruce.<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><div>--</div><div>Jody</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div>
<br></font></span><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Bruce Bannerman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>Project: Rasdaman <br><br></div>Project Contact: Peter Baumann<br><br>Project Mentor: Bruce Bannerman<br><br><br>Recommendation: Rasdaman to Graduate from OSGeo Incubation<br><br><br><div>Incubation Checklist: <a href="http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist" target="_blank">http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist</a><div style="width:16px;min-height:16px;display:inline-block"> </div> <br></div><div><br><br></div>Comments:<br><br>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.<br><br>It has been pleasing to see how the community has evolved over this time to develop effective, open and robust processes. <br><br>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.<br><br><div>A summary of community activity may be found at: <a href="https://www.openhub.net/p/rasdaman" target="_blank">https://www.openhub.net/p/rasdaman</a> <br></div><div><br></div>Key project members are active within both OSGeo and the OGC.<br><br>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: <a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs" target="_blank">http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs</a><br><br>The
project's principal, Professor Peter Baumann was also recently awarded
OGC's prestigious Kenneth D Gardels award for his contributions to OGC.<br><br><br><br><div>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.<br></div><div><br><br></div>The only reservation that I have is over the dual licensing model that is used by the sponsoring company, Rasdaman GmbH. See: <a href="http://www.rasdaman.com/Product/commercial+free.php" target="_blank">http://www.rasdaman.com/Product/commercial+free.php</a><div style="width:16px;min-height:16px;display:inline-block"> </div> <br><br>There are two versions: Community (GPL and LGPL) and Enterprise (free from GPL constraints).<br><br>The main difference between the two versions is summarised at: <a href="http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Features" target="_blank">http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Features</a><div style="width:16px;min-height:16px;display:inline-block"> </div> <br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><div><br></div><div>For consideration and vote.<div><div><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><span><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888"><span><font color="#888888"><div>Bruce<br></div></font></span></font></span></div>
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