<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>The time for vote has now closed.<br><br></div>The tally stands as per below.<br><br></div>Given that during the course of the discussion over the last two weeks it has become apparent that the Rasdaman project does not meet one of the key requirements of the Incubation Project. That is, ensuring openness in project governance and resilience in that the project is not dominated by one organisation and can survive the departure of key people and sponsors.<br><br></div>Therefore, I must withdraw this motion. Rasdaman is clearly not ready to Graduate from OSGeo Incubation as things currently stand.<br><br></div>I'll propose a way forward in a separate email.<br><br></div>The votes cast on this motion are:<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><pre> - Bruce Bannerman +1
- Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
- Landon Blake -1
- Howard Butler
- Arnulf Christl -1
- Jody Garnett -1
- Dimitris Kotzinos
- Tom Kralidis
- Julien-Samuel Lacroix
- Mark Lucas
- Steve Lime
- Daniel Morissette
- Markus Schneider
- Cameron Shorter -1
- Jeroen Ticheler
- Norman Vine
- Frank Warmerdam
Regards,
Bruce Bannerman
OSGeo Mentor for Rasdaman
</pre><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Bruce Bannerman</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:11 AM<br>Subject: Motion: Rasdaman ready to graduate from OSGeo Incubation<br>To: "<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>Cc: "<<a href="mailto:rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com">rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com</a>>" <<a href="mailto:rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com">rasdaman-users@googlegroups.com</a>>, "<<a href="mailto:rasdaman-dev@googlegroups.com">rasdaman-dev@googlegroups.com</a>>" <<a href="mailto:rasdaman-dev@googlegroups.com">rasdaman-dev@googlegroups.com</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Take 2<br><br></div>Dear Incubation Committee,<br><div><div><br>After a long six years of effort, I'd like to recommend that Rasdaman is ready for graduation from the OSGeo Incubation process.<br><br></div><div>You will find the Incubation Checklist at:<br><br><a href="http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist" target="_blank">http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist</a><br><br></div><div>I believe that the Rasdaman community have met our requirements to graduate from incubation.<br> <br></div><div>I have found the community to be robust and very active attracting contributors from many corners of the globe.<br><br></div><div>The project is attracting quite a bit of interest, together with European Union funding for additional development that appears to be going into the open source version of the product.<br><br></div><div>I have also noted that Rasdaman Gmbh is also moving some of their previously proprietary capability into the open source version.<br><br></div><div>Peter Bauman, the man behind Rasdaman is also making very significant and noteworthy contributions to the world of open spatial standards through his work within OGC and W3C Spatial Data on the Web Working Group. Rasdaman is an OGC Reference implementation of several WCS related standards from memory.<br></div><div><br><br><br></div><div>I do have a reservation though:<br><br></div><div>While I see that Rasdaman is meeting the requirements of the OSGeo Incubation process, I do feel that it is not meeting the spirit of Incubation.<br><br></div><div>As an example control of the project is still tightly controlled around Rasdaman GMbh:<br><br>- Two of the three members of the Rasdaman PSC are members of Rasdaman Gmbh;<br></div><div>- Project technical design and strategic directions are tightly controlled and do not appear to be openly discussed on public emailing lists. Things 'just happen'; and<br></div><div>- The Rasdaman-PSC email list contains no emails [1].<br><br></div><div>I do know of one or two attempts to try to get public discussion going about strategic technical direction, however I did not see much activity related to it. This is probably symptomatic of the lack of a serious attempt at community consultation on strategic and technical design issues to date.<br><br></div><div>My advice to the Rasdaman Community is that for you to truly thrive as an open source community, you will need to look closely at this issue and address it proactively. It is your project! <br><br></div><div>Bruce Bannerman<br></div><div>OSGeo Mentor for Rasdaman<br></div><div><br>[1] <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rasdaman-psc" target="_blank">https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rasdaman-psc</a> <br></div><div><br><br></div><div><div><br><br>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>The checklist (<a href="http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist" target="_blank">http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist</a>) seems complete. The last communication from Bruce was also positive, but did not elicit a response from this mailing list.<br><br>I recommend Bruce invite discussion/review of checklist and prep a recommendation for graduation (if he is comfortable doing so at this time).<br><br>--<br>Jody Garnett<br><br>On 21 April 2016 at 00:55, Peter Baumann <<a href="mailto:p.baumann@jacobs-university.de" target="_blank">p.baumann@jacobs-university.de</a>> wrote:<br>Dear all,<br><br>just a brief question, what are the plans about rasdaman incubation?<br>Last communication was 7 months ago, and this April we had our 6th anniversary<br>of entering incubation.<br><br>thanks for sharing your thoughts,<br>Peter<br><br>--<br>Dr. Peter Baumann<br> - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen<br> <a href="http://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann" target="_blank">www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann</a><br> mail: <a href="mailto:p.baumann@jacobs-university.de" target="_blank">p.baumann@jacobs-university.de</a><br> tel: <a href="tel:%2B49-421-200-3178" value="+494212003178" target="_blank">+49-421-200-3178</a>, fax: <a href="tel:%2B49-421-200-493178" value="+49421200493178" target="_blank">+49-421-200-493178</a><br> - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 26793)<br> <a href="http://www.rasdaman.com" target="_blank">www.rasdaman.com</a>, mail: <a href="mailto:baumann@rasdaman.com" target="_blank">baumann@rasdaman.com</a><br> tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: <a href="tel:%2B49-173-5837882" value="+491735837882" target="_blank">+49-173-5837882</a><br>"Si forte in alienas manus oberraverit hec peregrina epistola incertis ventis dimissa, sed Deo commendata, precamur ut ei reddatur cui soli destinata, nec preripiat quisquam non sibi parata." 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