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Hi Frank,<br>
<br>
rasdaman community is a fully fledged Array DBMS, it can be and is
used.<br>
<br>
As discussed earlier in this context, we honestly don't know the
number of installations. At some time we were tempted to implemented
an automatic "rasdaman has been installed on X" mechanism in the
code, but for the obvious reasons we don't do that. We do know,
though, _some_ installations of rasdaman community, such as: British
Geological Survey; EOX; NASA Ames. The secore component of rasdaman
is used by OGC as its official coordinate system resolver.<br>
<br>
There is a common misconception that the rasdaman company might make
undue use of free contributions; as laid out on the Governance page,
the converse is true: the company regularly and substantially
contributes open-source code. For example, the company is partner in
project PublicaMundi which is exclusively devoted to open-source
work. In fact, the company is the largest committer at all, and of
course we accept all code that adheres to the well-documented
quality regulations - see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://rasdaman.org/wiki/Governance">http://rasdaman.org/wiki/Governance</a> .<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
Peter<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/21/2014 01:30 AM, Frank Warmerdam
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<div dir="ltr">Bruce / Peter,
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<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>
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<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>
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<div>Best regards,</div>
<div>Frank</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Jody
Garnett <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>></span>
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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="h5">On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:25 PM,
Bruce Bannerman <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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>
<br>
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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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style="width:16px;min-height:16px;display:inline-block"> </div>
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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>
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<div>For consideration and vote.
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I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <a
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target="_blank">warmerdam@pobox.com</a><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>
tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
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