<div dir="ltr">Okay, for being listed on the website we really want to only check those three things, answer when ready.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 January 2018 at 15:39, Helmut Kudrnovsky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hellik@web.de" target="_blank">hellik@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="word-break:break-word"><div class="m_3282278398707896378mail_android_message" style="line-height:1;padding:0.5em">Dear Jody,<br>
<br>
I wait to answer your questions about a successful OSGeo community effort for several years now until other incubation committee members will rise up their questions too.<br>
<br>
As being a volunteering effort by the OSGeo community to bring the OSGeo stack by a smooth way to a really wide user community on a specific operating system, it should be respected that already quite amount of work has be done for several years now to keep the OSGeo4W environment running.<br>
<br>
Thus the overhead to be listed on the OSGeo website should be the lowest as possible. So let's wait what other incubation committee members have to say.<span class=""><br>
<br>
Kind regards<br>
Helmut<br>
<br>
OSGeo charter member<br></span>
-- </div><div class="m_3282278398707896378mail_android_quote" style="line-height:1;padding:0.3em">Am 22.01.18, 23:52, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> schrieb:<div><div class="h5"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0.8ex 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
<div><div>Quick question - where is the codebase for OSGeo4W, we have three things we are looking to check....<div><br></div><div>Okay this might be it: <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/browser" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/<wbr>osgeo4w/browser</a></div><div><br></div><div>1) geospatial - yes :)</div><div><br></div><div>2) open source - not sure I could find a specific license file in the codebase</div><div><br></div><div>3) open to contributions</div><div><br></div><div>Found a list of contributors with a invitation to take part <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/browser/trunk/setup/CONTRIBUTORS" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/<wbr>osgeo4w/browser/trunk/setup/<wbr>CONTRIBUTORS</a> but it appears to be for cygwin not OSGeo4W</div><div><br></div><div>Now we do not have to answer these questions from the codebase, so let’s tey the wiki. </div><div><br></div><div>Q: Open Source?</div><div>Looking around for license information found <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/AboutLicenses" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/<wbr>osgeo4w/wiki/AboutLicenses</a> - this describes the contents, but does not seem to describe the open source license used on OSGeo4W itself....<br></div><div><br></div><div>Q: Open to Contirbutions?</div><div><br></div><div>The wiki has a couple sections for developers, GSOC ideas </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_3282278398707896378m_-2818995800185366933gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div><div><div><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 January 2018 at 02:44, Helmut Kudrnovsky <span><<a href="mailto:hellik@web.de" target="_blank">hellik@web.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">[<a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/553" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/<wbr>osgeo4w/ticket/553</a>]:<br>
[<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-January/037046.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/discuss/2018-<wbr>January/037046.html</a>]:<br>
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>From discuss email:<br>
<br>
Hi community,<br>
<br>
as we've seen in the Google Code‑in contest and students' feedback, MS<br>
windows is still an important operating system within the user base of the<br>
OSGeo stack.<br>
<br>
Beside the windows standalone installers of e.g. QGIS or winGRASS (both<br>
are based upon OSGeo4W), the OSGeo4W framework itself is a very important<br>
platform to deliver the OSGeo stack to the users of this operating system.<br>
<br>
As an example, when I'm helping winGRASS users on the GRASS user ML, I'm<br>
often refering to use OSGeo4W-winGRASS in order to check if the<br>
issue/problem is also there.<br>
<br>
Furthermore, OSGeo4W is also an important testing platform as it's<br>
possible to use/test the latest greatest dailys of e.g. QGIS3 or GRASS7.4svn<br>
on the windows operating system.<br>
<br>
Another example, University of Vienna deploys OSGeo4W to all its public<br>
students PCs.<br>
<br>
Searching [1] and screening the new website, there seems to be no<br>
information about/no link to OSGeo4W [2].<br>
<br>
Is this intentional? Just overseen?<br>
<br>
OSGeo will loose new and interested users of the OSGeo software stack<br>
when no one can find the nice framework for the still most used operating<br>
system.<br>
<br>
Kind regards Helmut<br>
<br>
<br>
OSGeo charter member<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/search/OSGeo4W" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/search/<wbr>OSGeo4W</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/<wbr>osgeo4w/</a><br>
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<br>
To request "editor" permission (for creating a project page) please speak to<br>
the incubation committee as outlined here:<br>
<a href="http://osgeo.org/committees/incubation" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://osgeo.org/committees/<wbr>incubation</a><br>
<br>
Would love to see OSGeo4W listed on the new website, or better yet as a<br>
community project.<br>
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<br>
<br>
[<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-January/037049.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/discuss/2018-<wbr>January/037049.html</a>]:<br>
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Hi Jody,<br>
<br>
On Sat, 20. Jan 2018 at 21:15:27 -0800, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
> Helmut do you have any contact details for the OSGeo4W project?<br>
<br>
See <a href="http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Jürgen<br>
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<br>
<br>
[<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-January/037054.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/discuss/2018-<wbr>January/037054.html</a>]:<br>
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Jody,<br>
<br>
the OSGeo4W framework exits since more than 10 years now; the first entry in<br>
the OSGeo4W-ML dates back to November 2007.<br>
<br>
AFAIK there are few volunteers nowadays [1] to keep the framework running;<br>
mainly Jürgen F. and Martin L.; I maintain a small package to<br>
easily bridge the OSGeo4W framework and R (<a href="http://www.r-project.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.r-project.org</a>) and help in<br>
winGRASS if needed; and some other few volunteers helps from time to time.<br>
<br>
> Please ask the OSGeo4W team to contact the incubation<br>
> committee[<a href="https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.<wbr>org/about/committees/<wbr>incubation/</a>] (for edit<br>
> access to create a project page).<br>
<br>
So, I may ask the incubation committee for edit access to create a project<br>
page.<br>
<br>
Helmut<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/osgeo4w-dev/2007-November/date.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/osgeo4w-dev/2007-<wbr>November/date.html</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/CoreTeam" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/<wbr>osgeo4w/wiki/CoreTeam</a><br>
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<br>
<br>
[<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-January/037064.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>pipermail/discuss/2018-<wbr>January/037064.html</a>]:<br>
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Although it would be great to be a commuity project - the project team does<br>
need to ask - for more information see<br>
<a href="http://osgeo.org/committees/incubation" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://osgeo.org/committees/<wbr>incubation</a><br>
<br>
Specifically OSGeo community project are recognized as part of the<br>
foundation; we would like to treat all projects equally (even those that<br>
have been around since 2007).<br>
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<br>
<br>
[<a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/553#comment:4" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/<wbr>osgeo4w/ticket/553#comment:4</a>]<br>
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Replying to jive:<br>
<br>
Nice, I saw it there based on the email thread - do you mind joining the<br>
incubation committee mailing list<br>
(<a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/incubator</a>) and asking to be<br>
listed on the website.<br>
<br>
We have a very quick spot check to confirm each project is geospatial,<br>
open source and accepts contributions.<br>
<br>
I will do; OSGeo4W is a OSGeo community initiative since more than 10 years<br>
and well documented in an OSGeo trac instance.<br>
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<br>
<br>
herewith, for the sake of completeness, I ask on behalf of OSGeo4W, an<br>
OSGeo community initiative since more than 10 years, to be listed on the new<br>
OSGeo website.<br>
<br>
<br>
[<a href="https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.osgeo.org/about/<wbr>committees/incubation/</a>]:<br>
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How to list your project on the OSGeo website?<br>
<br>
The OSGeo website is proud to promote a wide range of geospatial open source<br>
software.<br>
<br>
Project requirements:<br>
<br>
geospatial<br>
open source license<br>
accepts contributions<br>
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<br>
OSGeo4W provides the OSGeo stack (e.g. proj4, GDAL, GRASS GIS, QGIS etc) in<br>
an easy way for the MS windows operating system.<br>
<br>
Thus OSGeo4W is geospatial.<br>
<br>
The OSGeo stack and the OSGeo4W installer are open source.<br>
<br>
The upstream OSGeo stack (e.g. proj4, GDAL, GRASS GIS, QGIS etc) accepts<br>
contributions and also OSGeo4W installer.<br>
<br>
<br>
Kind regards<br>
Helmut<br>
OSGeo charter member<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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best regards<br>
Helmut<br>
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