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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=IT>Hi Jody, very good question. I see no objections to join the GeoServer project repository and I think will be a honor to start as an unofficial project that gets promoted to be official. I don’t think this will mean loose ownership or visibility, but actually receive a very deep interest that I was (probably) not expecting in the first place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Is a proposal we do after successfully becoming OSGeo Community project or is a totally different procedure?</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Alessio Vertemati<br>OneOff-Tech developer</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">Jody Garnett</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, February 13, 2019 01:01<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:alessio.vertemati@oneofftech.xyz">Alessio Vertemati</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Incubator] Application for the library "GeoServerPHPClient"tobecome a OSGeo Community project</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>One question I have is if the project should join the OSGeo Community program, or would it be more effective join the GeoServer project repository?</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The GeoServer <a href="https://github.com/geoserver/">repository</a> does host arms length projects (such as geofence) and the steering committee may be open to hosting 'GeoServer PHP Client'. That said <a href="https://github.com/boundlessgeo/gsconfig">gsconfig</a> (python program providing access to GeoServer REST API) is hosted by boundless for use by GeoNode and QGIS integrations.<br clear=all></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>--</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jody Garnett</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Tue, 12 Feb 2019 at 15:50, Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal>I think that is it Alessio, I will make a motion for the committee (who may have additional questions).<br clear=all></p><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>--</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jody Garnett</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 00:27, Alessio Vertemati <<a href="mailto:alessio.vertemati@oneofftech.xyz" target="_blank">alessio.vertemati@oneofftech.xyz</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I checked again the headers and are present in the source code files. So should be all good.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Let me know if there is anything else I need to check/do.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Alessio Vertemati<br>OneOff-Tech developer</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:alessio.vertemati@oneofftech.xyz" target="_blank">Alessio Vertemati</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, January 16, 2019 21:20<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">Jody Garnett</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Incubator] Application for the library "GeoServer PHPClient"tobecome a OSGeo Community project</p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>You’re welcome, and indeed thanks for the revision of the request.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>> GeoServer PHP is used for spatial work, as a GeoServer team member we would love your feedback as the REST API evolves.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Yes sure.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>>> Have you checked your headers? Looking myself and searching it GitHub did not find anything but I need to ask :)</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Sure, no problem I will double check tomorrow and let you know if I had to fix something.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>>> 3) accepts contributions</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Yep, we hope to get some more contributors, as I’m feeling lonely there. Thanks for reviewing all the contribution documentation.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>>> aside: I quite like your company logo, kind of looks like "on" / "off" when drawn out</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks, I will share your appreciation during the company standup. Indeed we wanted to give the impression of “on” and “off” with a bit of twist, while not sounding like the usual “all or nothing”. </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>-- </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Alessio Vertemati<br>OneOff-Tech developer</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank">Jody Garnett</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, January 16, 2019 20:34<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:alessio.vertemati@oneofftech.xyz" target="_blank">Alessio Vertemati</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Incubator] Application for the library "GeoServer PHP Client"tobecome a OSGeo Community project</p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Thanks I do not seem to have gotten the original email :P</p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Looking at the repo <a href="https://github.com/OneOffTech/geoserver-client-php" target="_blank">https://github.com/OneOffTech/geoserver-client-php</a></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>1) GeoSpatial</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>GeoServer PHP is used for spatial work, as a GeoServer team member we would love your feedback as the REST API evolves.</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>2) open source license, with source code check of headers</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>- <a href="https://github.com/OneOffTech/geoserver-client-php/blob/master/LICENSE.txt" target="_blank">License</a> AGPL is very much open source</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>- Have you checked your headers? Looking myself and searching it GitHub did not find anything but I need to ask :)</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>3) accepts contributions</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>- <a href="https://github.com/OneOffTech/geoserver-client-php/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md" target="_blank">CONTRIBUTING.md</a> is nice and clear and has a CLA</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>- <a href="https://github.com/OneOffTech/geoserver-client-php/blob/master/CLA.md" target="_blank">CLA.md</a> same thing, nice and clear</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>- <a href="https://github.com/OneOffTech/geoserver-client-php/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed" target="_blank">pull request history</a> do not see a wide range of contributors... yet :)</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>From our standpoint we are not offering legal advice we just want to ensure you have thought about how contributions happen and the effect on your code. So this is a bit of open source advocacy for us OSGeo.</p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>aside: I quite like your company logo, kind of looks like "on" / "off" when drawn out</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>--</p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Jody Garnett</p></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 at 11:06, Alessio Vertemati <<a href="mailto:alessio.vertemati@oneofftech.xyz" target="_blank">alessio.vertemati@oneofftech.xyz</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-top:5.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'>Hi Jody, thanks for having a look. Here is the reply to the thread as requested.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'>Alessio Vertemati<br>OneOff-Tech developer</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:alessio.vertemati@oneofftech.xyz" target="_blank">Alessio Vertemati</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, November 22, 2018 19:24<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:incubator@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">incubator@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>[Incubator] Application for the library "GeoServer PHP Client" tobecome a OSGeo Community project</p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'>Dear OSGeo Incubation Committee,</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'>We at OneOff-Tech have been building an Open Source library called </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'>GeoServer PHP Client: <a href="https://github.com/OneOffTech/geoserver-client-php" target="_blank">https://github.com/OneOffTech/geoserver-client-php</a></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'>It is a generic PHP client to connect to the GeoServer APIs.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'>We think that more people should benefit from this library. And we would like to involve more people in the use and development of it. Therefore we aspire to become an OSGeo Community Project to get the attention of more people and to start growing a healthy community around this library.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'>License: GNU Affero General Public License v3</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'>As part of the team at OneOff-Tech involved in the client creation, I will be very happy to answer all your questions.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'>Best regards.</p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'>Alessio Vertemati<br>OneOff-Tech </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p></div></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:4.8pt'> </p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> </p></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:9.6pt'> </p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>