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    <p>Cameron, <br>
    </p>
    <p>thanks for the pointer to the new / old/ checklist link. <br>
    </p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>All, <br>
    </p>
    <p>the Incubation process and Checklists are not in a good state
      right now. There also have been changes during the migration from
      the old web site to the new website. For example the topic of
      requiring Open Source / Free Software licenses is much less
      prominent than on the old linked version Cameron provided and the
      even older Incubation Status pages Oskari had started on. I am
      pretty sure that these changes have not been discussed on the
      Incubation lists?! The official document on the web (<a
        moz-do-not-send="true"
        href="https://www.osgeo.org/resources/project-graduation-checklist/">https://www.osgeo.org/resources/project-graduation-checklist/</a>)
      points to a PDF file. Why on earth would we want this to be a file
      and not plain HTML?! Incubation is core and heart to OSGeo and the
      content is not readily available on the web? <br>
    </p>
    <p>No dramatic thing but we may want to go through the whole process
      on this list again, flesh out old docs and so on. Happy to help
      out on this around October / November when my schedule relaxes a
      bit. If anybody is eager to push this forward before then please
      go ahead. <br>
    </p>
    <p>Over the coming days we will move the Oskari Incubation status
      page content to the version provided by Cameron and then ask the
      Incubation committee to comment and eventually come to a decision
      whether we can recommend Oskari for graduation.<br>
    </p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    <p>It is somewhat hard to find things on the OSGeo Web in general
      because many links from the Wiki to the new website are broken.
      This causes quite a disconnect. When trying to fix some of the
      links I also noticed difference in content and language which we
      may have to fix with a lot of manual editing so that Wiki and
      website are in sync again. Would be great to see this coordinated
      by the web site committee - but that channel is dead since
      December 2017 which is unfortunate because we now have a nice web
      site but little editing going on - but this is a another topic. <br>
    </p>
    <p><br>
    </p>
    Have fun,<br>
    Arnulf<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 2018-07-08 um 10:01 schrieb Cameron
      Shorter:<br>
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      cite="mid:10d1e580-2d0a-5726-3328-82531f238c00@gmail.com">
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      <p>Aarnio, Arnulf,</p>
      <p>I just checked up on the link Arnulf pointed us to, <a
          href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oskari_Incubation_Status"
          moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oskari_Incubation_Status</a>,
        and it appears you are using an old version of the OSGeo
        Incubation Checklist. This is understandable, as our incubation
        docs have not been copied across into our new website. (Mumble,
        mumble, grrr, grr.)</p>
      <p>This is the checklist we should be using:<br>
        <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://old.www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html"
          moz-do-not-send="true">http://old.www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/project_graduation_checklist.html</a><br>
      </p>
      <br>
      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/7/18 10:10 pm, Aarnio Timo (MML)
        wrote:<br>
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          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Dear
              list members!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Thank
              you so much for you assesment Arnulf and thank you for
              your valuable comments Cameron and Bruce!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">I’ll
              try to answer some of the questions and concerns raised
              here.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">The
              mailing list has been so far more as Arnulf described, an
              announcement channel. However there have been multiple
              questions and answers regarding the software as well.
              You’ve gotta start somewhere right? Also some people seem
              to dislike email lists and say that they are old
              fashioned. Personally I don’t completely agree but I see
              where these comments are coming from.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">In
              our day to day work we use Slack (and nowadays also
              Rocket.Chat) for communication. I agree that having logs
              from our chats might be beneficial for others, but there
              are at least two things to note here:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">-
              We use the free version of Slack which supports only 10k
              messages of history, so we’d have to develop some method
              of fetching the chat archive (+attached media) and then
              store&publish it somewhere. Not sure what the terms of
              use for Slack say about this - we could check.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">-
              A lot of the discussion (chat) is in Finnish. Also a lot
              of it happens via private messages between two developers
              and even though we’ve tried to encourage people to chat on
              the public channels sometimes it just does not happen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Anyone
              that has questions and/or is developing something to
              Oskari is welcomed to our Slack. We even planned to
              automate the invitations, so that one wouldn’t have to ask
              one from us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">For
              now I guess the best source for discussions and decisions
              is GitHub and the PSC meeting notes. We also planned to
              make the PSC meetings happen regularly (e.g. once a month)
              in the sake of sharing information & knowledge
              exchange.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">We’ve
              discussed the OSGeo Live issue early last year and decided
              that at this point it’s not something we will focus on.
              Like Arnulf noted Oskari is a “platform” product and
              relies heavily on external data sets so it’s not that well
              suited for OSGeo Live.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">About
              the question about Roadmap items and external
              contributors: Oskari has had external contributors for
              quite some time, but obviously here more is better. The
              most recent “external” contribution is this <a
                href="https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/issues/61"
                moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/issues/61</a>
              - as an example of something that “went through the
              process”. I put the word external in quotes because I
              don’t know what qualifies as being external? The
              free-to-join Oskari Community has now more than 30
              organizations and many of them are using or developing
              Oskari actively. Last year the first company (then
              Dimenteq Ltd now Sitowise Ltd) started selling Oskari as a
              service and also Oskari development and maintenance. This
              year another company (Gispo Ltd) started offering
              crowd-funding facilitating services for developing Oskari
              collaboratively - tbh they are piloting it for now. I
              really see both of these examples as very positive
              development and I think they also secure the future of
              Oskari to some extent.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Obviously
              a more broader adoption is something we still strive for.
              For a software like Oskari it’s challenging but little by
              little we’ve already managed to do it so it’s possible :)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">I
              don’t think we’re in any rush for the graduation and this
              discussion will be very helpful for us to develop our
              process even further. So please do comment back so we know
              what kind of steps to take next and how to proceed. My
              holidays start today so don’t wonder if I’m not replying
              for a while, I’ll get back to work in August.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Thanks
              again for your support!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">BR,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US">Timo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D" lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
          <div>
            <div style="border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1
              1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">
              <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                    style="mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span
                  style="mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">
                  Incubator [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                    href="mailto:incubator-bounces@lists.osgeo.org"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:incubator-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>]
                  <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bruce Bannerman<br>
                  <b>Sent:</b> 6. heinäkuuta 2018 0:17<br>
                  <b>To:</b> Cameron Shorter <a
                    class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
                    href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com"
                    moz-do-not-send="true"><cameron.shorter@gmail.com></a><br>
                  <b>Cc:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
                    href="mailto:Oskari-user@lists.osgeo.org"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">Oskari-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>;
                  Sanna Jokela (Gispo) <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
                    href="mailto:sanna@gispo.fi" moz-do-not-send="true"><sanna@gispo.fi></a>;
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
                    href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>
                  <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Incubator] Oskari Incubation
                  status<o:p></o:p></span></p>
            </div>
          </div>
          <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">Hi Arnulf,<span
                style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-language:FI"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for your detailed assessment.
              ...and yes, I did read to the bottom ;-)<o:p></o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">I would like to see a response to your
              questions from Timo, or another representative of the
              Oskari community. In particular a response to the issues
              of open communities and decision making.<o:p></o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">From what I’ve viewed on the project
              website, Oskari has considerable potential. However, good
              software is only part of the picture.<o:p></o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">Having a good, strong, healthy and
              active community that is diverse and uses open processes
              will help the project to survive when funding from the
              major sponsor ceases.<o:p></o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">Kind regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal">Bruce<o:p></o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><br>
              On 6 Jul 2018, at 03:02, Cameron Shorter <<a
                href="mailto:cameron.shorter@gmail.com"
                moz-do-not-send="true">cameron.shorter@gmail.com</a>>
              wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
          </div>
          <blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
            <div>
              <p>Arnulf, to answer your question at the bottom, yes I
                read to the bottom, and really appreciate your detailed
                assessment.<o:p></o:p></p>
              <p>Based on Arnulf's assessment, it sounds like Sskari
                probably has a good codebase, with good work from within
                one organisation, but is yet to attract engaged external
                developers. This is a great milestone, and worth
                acknowledging. But the "unicorn" projects that we look
                for in OSGeo incubation are those with a healthy
                community from multiple organisations.<o:p></o:p></p>
              <p>The "extent of collaboration" criteria provides
                validation of the quality of the project, and is a very
                good indicator of long term sustainability. <o:p></o:p></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">To the
                Oskari folks, you might want to read this presentation I
                gave a while back on business justifications for backing
                collaboration: <br>
                <a
href="http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2017/11/open-source-pitch-for-your-boss.html"
                  moz-do-not-send="true">http://cameronshorter.blogspot.com/2017/11/open-source-pitch-for-your-boss.html</a><br>
                <br>
                Without digging into the details any further, I suspect
                Oskari would need to work on attracting co-contributors,
                from multiple organisations, and we would likely see
                evidence of this happening by seeing archive logs of
                collaborative email lists, or slack or IRC or similar.<br>
                <br>
                Warm regards, Cameron<o:p></o:p></p>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal">On 6/7/18 2:11 am, Arnulf Christl
                  (Metaspatial) wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
              </div>
              <blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
                <p>Hi Folks, <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>this is an update on the Incubation process of
                  Oskari. <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p><a
                    href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oskari_Incubation_Status"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Oskari_Incubation_Status</a><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>As mentor I am still somewhat hesitant to recommend
                  Oskari for OSGeo Incubation because I cannot find a
                  good indicator supporting that there is an open
                  community and communication. Personally I know some of
                  the current core team and totally trust them to work
                  in the Open Source way of doing things. But this may
                  not be quite apparent to anybody not into the project.
                  <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>Oskari is doing a good job posting news and updates
                  to the OSGeo user list (<a
                    href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/oskari-user/"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/oskari-user/</a>)
                  but the list is not really used by users for any kind
                  of discussion, help or future development. It feels
                  more like a low volume announce list (which is totally
                  OK, so please keep it up). <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>How and where is the development being discussed? Who
                  can join the Oskari Slack channel - or whatever else
                  is used to have technical and strategic discussions?
                  Are there archives of discussions and decisions? Do
                  you manage to do this in English or is it still
                  everything communicated in Finnish? <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>In a PSC presentation from December 2016 one
                  bullet-point says that Oskari may become a project on
                  OSGeo live: <a
                    href="https://oskariorg.github.io/files/20161220-Oskari_OSGEO_PSC.pdf"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://oskariorg.github.io/files/20161220-Oskari_OSGEO_PSC.pdf.
                    <br>
                  </a><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>Actually, Incubation is not a requirement, so please
                  feel free to approach the OSGeo Live team to find out
                  more.<o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>In the Roadmap document (which in my opinion is
                  actually ery good) at: <a
                    href="https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/wiki/Roadmap-process"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">
https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/wiki/Roadmap-process</a> you
                  say that: <o:p> </o:p></p>
                <p><i>"After communicating with Oskari community the
                    roadmap items enter Active stage [...]". </i><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>Can you give us an example of where and how this has
                  happened? <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>There are some updates on GitHub issues but it
                  appears to be mostly internal team members (which is
                  totally OK, is this where the collaborative aspect of
                  the future development takes place? <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p><a
                    href="https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/labels/roadmap"
                    moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/oskariorg/oskari-docs/labels/roadmap</a><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>Regarding Code Copyright Review you state that: <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p><i>All code has been developed by the registered
                    developers listed on github who have signed the CLA.
                    All external libraries have project compatible
                    licenses. The project has been started as a regular
                    Open Source project following the guidelines as set
                    out by OSGeo. A file-per-file code review was
                    therefore deemed superfluous. </i><o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>As mentor I can confirm that this is correct and
                  satisfies OSGeo's requirements (and yes, I did some
                  quick checks on random code files but due to the well
                  organized origin of the project did not go through all
                  code like we had to in the GRASS project... :-).<o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>In the last PSC meeting in December 2017 a decision
                  was taken to schedule the next meeting "as needed".  <o:p></o:p></p>
                <h2 id="meetingsactivity"><i>Meetings/activity</i><o:p></o:p></h2>
                <ul type="disc">
                  <li class="MsoNormal"
                    style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
                    level1 lfo1"> <i>[...]</i><o:p></o:p></li>
                  <li class="MsoNormal"
                    style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
                    level1 lfo1"> <i>future meetings schedule: continue
                      with “as needed” (no need for a fixed schedule)</i><o:p></o:p></li>
                </ul>
                <p>Summarizing the current status: We discussed some of
                  the above topics before and it is not a requirement
                  for OSGeo Incubation to have active mailing lists and
                  so on. But it is a requirement to have an open process
                  and ideally also a somewhat growing user community.
                  Obviously due its character as a complex portal
                  platform Oskari is not a software that will have
                  millions of downloads but a little broader adoption
                  would be nice to see. <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>You also say: <o:p></o:p></p>
                <ul type="disc">
                  <li class="MsoNormal"
                    style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
                    level1 lfo2"> <i>Slack/Mailinglist can be used more
                      actively to discuss any issues/voting</i><o:p></o:p></li>
                </ul>
                <p>If you are not using the Slack channel (which
                  unfortunately is not open), where is the communication
                  taking place? <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>The PSC meeting notes from December 2017 has a list
                  of current installations / users / contributions. This
                  is good to see. Has there been any additions, changes
                  over the past half year? <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><br>
                  Even if you can not produce evidence for any or all of
                  the above issues I will be happy to recommend Oskari
                  for Incubation if you believe that this will help the
                  project. Then it will be up to the Incubation
                  committee to decide whether we can recommend
                  graduation to the OSGeo Board of Directors. <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>We will have to expect some discussion on the
                  Incubation list on the above topics and this is not
                  bad but a sign of a healthy process. <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p><o:p> </o:p></p>
                <h3>Internal note to the Incubation committee <o:p></o:p></h3>
                <p>IF you ever made it down to this line and maybe even
                  checked some of the referenced documents, please be so
                  kind as to acknowledge this on the mailing list so
                  that we can help Oskari move on. <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>It may also be a good idea to go back to the
                  Incubation process and check whether it should be
                  revised for certain aspects (especially requirement on
                  mailing lists / alternatives like Slack).  <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p><o:p> </o:p></p>
                <p>Anything else you need, let me know. <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p><o:p> </o:p></p>
                <p>Thank you, <o:p></o:p></p>
                <p>Arnulf<o:p></o:p></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></p>
                <div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal">Am 2018-06-25 um 17:05 schrieb
                    Aarnio Timo (MML):<o:p></o:p></p>
                </div>
                <blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt">
                  <p class="MsoNormal">Hi Incubator-list!<o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We’d like to
                      inquire about the incubation status of Oskari.
                      What are the next steps should be in the
                      incubation process? In our end we’ve done
                      everything we’ve realized that we have to do. But
                      is there something still wanted from us? Or is the
                      process in the OSGeo end now? If so, what are the
                      steps there and is there possibly any estimate
                      when we can think about graduating?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kind regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="mso-fareast-language:FI" lang="EN-US">Timo
                      Aarnio</span><o:p></o:p></p>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                      style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
                      New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:FI"><br>
                      <br>
                      <br>
                      <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                  <pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre>
                  <pre>Incubator mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre>
                  <pre><a href="mailto:Incubator@lists.osgeo.org" moz-do-not-send="true">Incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
                  <pre><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
                </blockquote>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                    style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                    Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:FI"><br>
                    <br>
                    <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre>
                <pre>Spatially enabling your business<o:p></o:p></pre>
                <pre><a href="http://metaspatial.net" moz-do-not-send="true">http://metaspatial.net</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                    style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
                    Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:FI"><br>
                    <br>
                    <br>
                    <o:p></o:p></span></p>
                <pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre>
                <pre>Incubator mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre>
                <pre><a href="mailto:Incubator@lists.osgeo.org" moz-do-not-send="true">Incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
                <pre><a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
              </blockquote>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
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Cameron Shorter
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Open Technologies and Geospatial Consultant

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