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Hi all,<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
- 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.<br>
- 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):<br>
what is the status of votes cast?<br>
what is the committee's approach when quorum is not reached?<br>
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.<br>
where are the procedures laid down so that I can learn these
details? Could not find anything on [1].<br>
<br>
Hope that you can help me to understand better what the rules &
procedures are for such a vote.<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
Peter<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.osgeo.org/incubator">http://www.osgeo.org/incubator</a><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/20/2014 04:12 PM, Jody Garnett
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Thanks for the nomination Bruce.
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<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>
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<div>Jody</div>
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<div>Jody Garnett</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Bruce
Bannerman <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com"
target="_blank">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>></span>
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Project: Rasdaman <br>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist"
target="_blank">http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist</a>
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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
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.openhub.net/p/rasdaman"
target="_blank">https://www.openhub.net/p/rasdaman</a>
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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
moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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<div><br>
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The only reservation that I have is over the dual
licensing model that is used by the sponsoring company,
Rasdaman GmbH. See: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.rasdaman.com/Product/commercial+free.php"
target="_blank">http://www.rasdaman.com/Product/commercial+free.php</a>
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<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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Features"
target="_blank">http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Features</a>
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<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>
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<div>For consideration and vote.
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<div>Bruce<br>
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Dr. Peter Baumann
- Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann">www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann</a>
mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:p.baumann@jacobs-university.de">p.baumann@jacobs-university.de</a>
tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178
- Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 26793)
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.rasdaman.com">www.rasdaman.com</a>, mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:baumann@rasdaman.com">baumann@rasdaman.com</a>
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