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    Hi Bruce,<br>
    <br>
    thank you for clarifying this. I enjoy amicable communication, even
    and in particular in cases of mutually different views. Glad that we
    meet on these grounds!<br>
    <br>
    All the best,<br>
    Peter<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    I'll be happy <br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24.09.21 12:24, Bruce Bannerman
      wrote:<br>
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      Hello again Peter,
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      <div class="">I have no intention of trying to denegrate Rasdaman.
        I apologise if that is how you interpret my comments.</div>
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      <div class="">Having spent 5 years as an OSGeo Mentor within your
        project, I developed a deep respect for your project, your team
        and collective capabilities.</div>
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      <div class="">My intent here is to try and avoid a similar
        undesirable outcome again in the future.</div>
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      <div class="">If we'd had a more clearly defined policy on the
        type of project that we are willing to support at graduation, I
        believe that we could have avoided a lot of angst with Rasdaman
        for OSGeo and for the Rasdaman project team.</div>
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      <div class="">Kind regards,</div>
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      <div class="">Bruce</div>
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            <div class="">On 24 Sep 2021, at 17:42, Peter Baumann <<a href="mailto:p.baumann@jacobs-university.de" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">p.baumann@jacobs-university.de</a>>
              wrote:</div>
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              <div class=""> folks, be careful.<br class="">
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                OSGeo, in its limited view on the world, is again
                starting getting derogative about rasdaman. <br class="">
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                Please be careful about your choice of words in the
                context of rasdaman - probably we all do not want to
                open this discussion again.<br class="">
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                -Peter<br class="">
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                <br class="">
                <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24.09.21 06:43, Bruce
                  Bannerman wrote:<br class="">
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                <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:563463DE-C620-4D7B-91C8-B1A02C366E7C@gmail.com" class=""> Regarding OSI Licenses, I understand this
                  Jody.
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                  <div class="">However this position does not cater for
                    undesirable proprietary dual license aspects.</div>
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                  </div>
                  <div class="">Again the Rasdaman example. From memory,
                    at the time of the incubation vote, this product was
                    subject to dual licensing, the open source variant
                    using approved OSI licences. However the open source
                    version was severely constrained, particularly from
                    aspects that improved product performance.</div>
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                  <div class="">Consequently, at the time of the
                    incubation vote, one member of the Incubation
                    Committee described the open source variant as
                    “crippleware”.</div>
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                  <div class="">Now I don’t want to make this about one
                    product.</div>
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                  <div class="">I’d like to see us have a clear position
                    to avoid such problems in the future. I don’t think
                    that we can just say that we don’t accept the
                    Benevelent Dictator model and that solves all
                    problems.</div>
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                  <div class="">I also don’t want to see us chase away
                    involvement in projects and project sponsorship by
                    proprietary organisations. This would be foolish.</div>
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                  <div class="">I have a similar view on CLAs. If used
                    appropriately, they can protect a codebase and make
                    it easier to manage IP arrangements should it become
                    necessary. </div>
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                  <div class="">But I also understand that they can be
                    abused with undesirable outcomes for an open source
                    community. There are many examples of these that we
                    can all recall quite easily. </div>
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                  <div class="">Kind regards,</div>
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                  <div class="">Bruce</div>
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                        <div class="">On 24 Sep 2021, at 02:37, Jody
                          Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>>
                          wrote:</div>
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                          <div dir="ltr" class="">Bruce:
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                            <div class="">We presently follow the OSI
                              approved list, much easier to follow then
                              to manage our own criteria.</div>
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                            <div class="">However this discussion
                              appears to be around governance and
                              control; and I think we are very clear on
                              these topics. Even during the Rasdaman
                              discussion we were very clear that the
                              benevolent dictator model did not meet our
                              goals for open governance. It was
                              frustrating this the discussion took so
                              long: benevolent dictator is of course a
                              valid model, it is just not one that
                              matches our ideals.</div>
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                            <div class="">OSGeo does support (and
                              sometimes require) CLAs providing
                              asymmetrical rights on code bases such as
                              GeoTools and GeoServer (<a href="https://www.osgeo.org/about/licenses/" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.osgeo.org/about/licenses/</a>).
                              This increased permissions for the PSC has
                              allowed these committees to donate fixes
                              to more permissive projects such as
                              GeoServer (GPL with EPL exception) -->
                              GeoTools (LGPL); or GeoTools (LGPL) to JTS
                              (BSD). The use of CLA to establish
                              asymmetrical rights has a community
                              building use in this respect; however the
                              same tool is used to enable some of the
                              harmful (to the open community) practices
                              being remarked on.</div>
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                              </div>
                              <div class="">It is a shame folks like
                                Elasticsearch and MapBox abandoning open
                                source, as I really appreciate it as a
                                way to produce excellent software and
                                manage risk across a wide range of
                                stakeholders. In many cases the
                                justifications feel self imposed. If an
                                organization is not seeing enough
                                contributions to justify continuing a
                                project as open source, I can point to
                                an organization that did not setup equal
                                governance to promote contributions
                                between equals.</div>
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                              <div class="">Personally I like
                                free-software, and open-source software
                                held by a vendor neutral organization
                                (such as OSGeo). Everything else seems a
                                bit risky.</div>
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                              <div class="">OSGeo does not provide such
                                a hard line, but by stressing projects
                                need to be willing for others to take
                                part in governance (no benevolent
                                dictator model) I believe the foundation
                                is clear in what kind of project we
                                support. There is a reason projects such
                                as MapBoxGL or Cesium did not apply to
                                be part of OSGeo after all.</div>
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                                          <div class="">Jody Garnett</div>
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                            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 22
                              Sept 2021 at 17:31, Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>>
                              wrote:<br class="">
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                                <div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Jody,</div>
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                                <div dir="ltr" class="">These thoughts
                                  extend on your ‘there can be only one’
                                  comment below.</div>
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                                </div>
                                <div dir="ltr" class="">I think that we
                                  in the Incubation Committee and our
                                  potential future incubating projects
                                  would benefit from our better defining
                                  what type of open source project we
                                  will support.</div>
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                                </div>
                                <div dir="ltr" class="">Greg Troxel
                                  contributed valuable insight into a
                                  discussion that we were having in the
                                  OSGeo Standards list on the proposed
                                  OGC/OSGeo MOU. See [1] for context.</div>
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                                </div>
                                <div dir="ltr" class="">With apologies
                                  to Greg for my paraphrasing, I
                                  understand Greg’s arguments to
                                  strongly differentiate between open
                                  source projects that are subject to
                                  proprietary relicensing and those that
                                  are not. </div>
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                                </div>
                                <div dir="ltr" class="">Greg contributed
                                  the blog link at [2] as part of the
                                  discussion. This is an insightful
                                  read.</div>
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                                </div>
                                <div dir="ltr" class="">If we had had a
                                  clear policy on the type of open
                                  source project that we are willing to
                                  support during the unfortunate
                                  situation with the Rasdaman Incubation
                                  vote, we could have avoided a lot of
                                  the angst and miscommunication that
                                  occurred on both sides.</div>
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                                </div>
                                <div dir="ltr" class="">So before we
                                  progress too much further on the
                                  ‘Platforms’ discussion, I think that
                                  it would be beneficial to resolve the
                                  OSGeo Incubation supported open source
                                  model issue definitively.  I believe
                                  that this will make it much easier to
                                  progress the platforms discussion, and
                                  future incubations.</div>
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                                <div dir="ltr" class="">
                                  <div dir="ltr" class="">While I have
                                    concerns over the interpretation of
                                    what a Contributions Licence is, I
                                    believe that the links at [1] and
                                    [2] are a good starting point to get
                                    this sorted out.</div>
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                                  <div dir="ltr" class="">Kind regards,</div>
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                                  <div dir="ltr" class="">Bruce</div>
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                                <div dir="ltr" class="">[1] <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2021-September/001274.html" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/standards/2021-September/001274.html</a></div>
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                                <div dir="ltr" class="">[2] <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality/" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality/</a> </div>
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                                  <blockquote type="cite" class="">On 17
                                    Sep 2021, at 01:59, Jody Garnett
                                    <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>>
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                                    <div dir="auto" class="">It is kind
                                      of like the “highlander-principle”
                                      if the phrase “there can be only
                                      one” applies … you are not open
                                      source.</div>
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                                    <div dir="auto" class="">Jody</div>
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                                        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep
                                          15, 2021 at 6:38 PM Jody
                                          Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>>
                                          wrote:<br class="">
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                                            <div class="">There is a
                                              useful definition of a
                                              framework (quite
                                              technical) here <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework</a></div>
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0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Software
                                              frameworks have these
                                              distinguishing features
                                              that separate them from
                                              libraries or normal user
                                              applications: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework</a>
                                              <ul class="">
                                                <li class="">inversion
                                                  of control - In a
                                                  framework, unlike in
                                                  libraries or normal
                                                  user applications, the
                                                  overall program's flow
                                                  of control is not
                                                  dictated by the
                                                  caller, but by the
                                                  framework.[1]</li>
                                              </ul>
                                              <ul class="">
                                                <li class="">default
                                                  behavior - A framework
                                                  has a default
                                                  behavior. This default
                                                  behavior must actually
                                                  be some useful
                                                  behavior and not a
                                                  series of no-ops.</li>
                                              </ul>
                                              <ul class="">
                                                <li class="">extensibility
                                                  - A framework can be
                                                  extended by the user
                                                  usually by selective
                                                  overriding or
                                                  specialized by user
                                                  code providing
                                                  specific
                                                  functionality.</li>
                                              </ul>
                                              <ul class="">
                                                <li class="">non-modifiable
                                                  framework code - The
                                                  framework code, in
                                                  general, is not
                                                  allowed to be
                                                  modified. Users can
                                                  extend the framework,
                                                  but not modify its
                                                  code.</li>
                                              </ul>
                                            </blockquote>
                                            <div class="">While all of
                                              that is technically true
                                              it is perhaps a bit too
                                              detailed for our purpose.</div>
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                                            </div>
                                            <div class="">The core
                                              distinction is earlier in
                                              the thread:</div>
                                            <div class="">- Does your
                                              open source code support a
                                              single website? Or is is
                                              setup for use by others?</div>
                                            <div class="">- Are you
                                              building a community
                                              around services? This is a
                                              user community ...</div>
                                            <div class="">- Are you
                                              building a community
                                              around software? This is
                                              still a user community ...</div>
                                            <div class="">- Are you
                                              building a community
                                              around software where the
                                              software source code is
                                              available to look at? This
                                              is still a user community
                                              ... looking at you
                                              Elasticsearch</div>
                                            <div class="">- Are you
                                              building a community
                                              around software with
                                              shared responsibility and
                                              risk (enabled by a license
                                              to view *and change*
                                              source code)? This is a
                                              free or open-source
                                              community (depending on
                                              which license chosen by
                                              the group)</div>
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                                            </div>
                                            <div class="">--<br class="">
                                              Jody Garnett<br class="">
                                              <div class=""><br class="">
                                              </div>
                                            </div>
                                          </div>
                                          <br class="">
                                          <div class="gmail_quote">
                                            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri,
                                              3 Sept 2021 at 18:32,
                                              Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>>
                                              wrote:<br class="">
                                            </div>
                                            <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
                                              <div dir="auto" class="">
                                                <div dir="ltr" class="">Jody,</div>
                                                <div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">
                                                </div>
                                                <div dir="ltr" class="">I
                                                  don’t expect anything
                                                  constructive from the
                                                  AGM. People won’t have
                                                  time to reflect.</div>
                                                <div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">
                                                </div>
                                                <div dir="ltr" class="">…now
                                                  what is a ‘Framework’?</div>
                                                <div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">
                                                </div>
                                                <div dir="ltr" class="">I
                                                  suggest that we define
                                                  what we support and
                                                  take it from there. We
                                                  can always adjust, if
                                                  required.</div>
                                                <div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">
                                                </div>
                                                <div dir="ltr" class="">Kind
                                                  regards,</div>
                                                <div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">
                                                </div>
                                                <div dir="ltr" class="">Bruce</div>
                                                <div dir="ltr" class=""><br class="">
                                                  <blockquote type="cite" class="">On
                                                    4 Sep 2021, at
                                                    05:27, Jody Garnett
                                                    <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>>
                                                    wrote:<br class="">
                                                    <br class="">
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                                                </div>
                                                <blockquote type="cite" class="">
                                                  <div dir="ltr" class="">
                                                    <div dir="ltr" class="">Thanks
                                                      Bruce,
                                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                                      </div>
                                                      <div class="">I
                                                        did not get
                                                        anything useful
                                                        from the board;
                                                        perhaps it is a
                                                        subject for the
                                                        AGM.</div>
                                                      <div class=""><br class="">
                                                      </div>
                                                      <div class="">For
                                                        now the way
                                                        forward seems to
                                                        be to recast the
                                                        platform as a
                                                        framework and
                                                        ensure the
                                                        resulting
                                                        software stack
                                                        and be picked up
                                                        and run
                                                        independently
                                                        (with a
                                                        quickstart or
                                                        similar).</div>
                                                      <div class="">
                                                        <div class="">
                                                          <div dir="ltr" class="">
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                                                          <div class="">
                                                          <div dir="ltr" class="">
                                                          <div class="">--</div>
                                                          <div class="">Jody
                                                          Garnett</div>
                                                          </div>
                                                          </div>
                                                          </div>
                                                          </div>
                                                        </div>
                                                        <br class="">
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                                                    </div>
                                                    <br class="">
                                                    <div class="gmail_quote">
                                                      <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On
                                                        Wed, 14 Jul 2021
                                                        at 21:57, Bruce
                                                        Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>>
                                                        wrote:<br class="">
                                                      </div>
                                                      <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
                                                        <div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space" class="">Thanks
                                                          Jody,
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div class="">Personally:</div>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div class="">
                                                          <ul class="">
                                                          <li class="">I
                                                          don’t mind a
                                                          situation
                                                          where an open
                                                          source project
                                                          attempts to
                                                          develop and
                                                          maintain
                                                          software that
                                                          is intended to
                                                          integrate a
                                                          number of
                                                          software
                                                          components
                                                          into a working
                                                          product which
                                                          could perhaps
                                                          be called a
                                                          platform.</li>
                                                          </ul>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <ul class="">
                                                          <li class="">I
                                                          can see many
                                                          situations
                                                          where the
                                                          ‘platform’
                                                          might deploy
                                                          both
                                                          components and
                                                          the platform’s
                                                          specific
                                                          customisations
                                                          concurrently.</li>
                                                          </ul>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <ul class="">
                                                          <li class="">However,
                                                          I would not
                                                          support a
                                                          situation
                                                          where that
                                                          product (or
                                                          platform) can
                                                          only be
                                                          implemented
                                                          once. I’d
                                                          prefer that it
                                                          can be
                                                          implemented
                                                          many times by
                                                          different
                                                          organisations.</li>
                                                          </ul>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <ul class="">
                                                          <li class="">While
                                                          such a
                                                          ‘platform’
                                                          project would
                                                          look after its
                                                          own
                                                          "integration
                                                          related
                                                          software", I’d
                                                          see that the
                                                          individual
                                                          components
                                                          would be
                                                          subject to
                                                          their own open
                                                          source project
                                                          community’s
                                                          governance
                                                          practices.</li>
                                                          </ul>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <ul class="">
                                                          <li class="">This
                                                          could get
                                                          quite messy,
                                                          when the
                                                          integration
                                                          related
                                                          software is
                                                          actually a
                                                          customisation
                                                          of an existing
                                                          software
                                                          component with
                                                          its own open
                                                          source
                                                          community
                                                          already in
                                                          existence.
                                                          This would
                                                          require
                                                          careful and
                                                          close
                                                          collaboration
                                                          between both
                                                          communities…</li>
                                                          </ul>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div class="">That
                                                          will do for
                                                          now, let’s see
                                                          what others
                                                          think.</div>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div class="">Kind
                                                          regards,</div>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div class="">Bruce</div>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          <blockquote type="cite" class="">
                                                          <div class="">On
                                                          15 Jul 2021,
                                                          at 01:21, Jody
                                                          Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>>
                                                          wrote:</div>
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          <div class="">
                                                          <div dir="ltr" class="">It is
                                                          indeed
                                                          overloaded,
                                                          and no I
                                                          cannot
                                                          clarify as the
                                                          applicants
                                                          that are
                                                          coming in are
                                                          slightly
                                                          different from
                                                          each other.
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div class="">Turn-key
                                                          portals such
                                                          as <a href="https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/information-technology/portal/" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.osgeo.org/choose-a-project/information-technology/portal/</a>
                                                          these showcase
                                                          a range of
                                                          projects. Some
                                                          like geomoose
                                                          are presented
                                                          as frameworks,
                                                          others
                                                          like GC2/Vidi
                                                          are presented
                                                          as a platform.</div>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div class="">I
                                                          would be
                                                          cautious about
                                                          an open source
                                                          project that
                                                          just supports
                                                          a single
                                                          website (like <a href="http://github.com/mapstory" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">http://github.com/mapstory</a>),
                                                          but perhaps
                                                          that is my own
                                                          bias? There is
                                                          an advantage
                                                          to users of a
                                                          platform being
                                                          able to review
                                                          the code
                                                          responsible
                                                          for the
                                                          service they
                                                          are using. But
                                                          this
                                                          represents new
                                                          ground for
                                                          OSGeo,
                                                          hence the
                                                          discussion.</div>
                                                          <div class=""><br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <div class="">I
                                                          also brought
                                                          this
                                                          discussion to
                                                          the osgeo
                                                          board list; so
                                                          we do not need
                                                          to decide on
                                                          our own.</div>
                                                          <div class="">
                                                          <div class="">
                                                          <div dir="ltr" class="">
                                                          <div dir="ltr" class="">
                                                          <div class="">
                                                          <div dir="ltr" class="">
                                                          <div class="">--</div>
                                                          <div class="">Jody
                                                          Garnett</div>
                                                          </div>
                                                          </div>
                                                          </div>
                                                          </div>
                                                          </div>
                                                          <br class="">
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                                                          </div>
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          <div class="gmail_quote">
                                                          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 at 18:56, Bruce Bannerman <<a href="mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">bruce.bannerman.osgeo@gmail.com</a>>
                                                          wrote:<br class="">
                                                          </div>
                                                          <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px
0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">Hi
                                                          Jody,<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          The concept of
                                                          a platform is
                                                          quite
                                                          overloaded and
                                                          means
                                                          different
                                                          things to
                                                          different
                                                          people.<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          Can you please
                                                          clarify what
                                                          you mean by
                                                          ‘platform’?<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          Kind regards,<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          Bruce<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          > On 12 Jul
                                                          2021, at
                                                          18:30, Jody
                                                          Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>>
                                                          wrote:<br class="">
                                                          > <br class="">
                                                          >
                                                          Discussion
                                                          topic for
                                                          incubation
                                                          committee:<br class="">
                                                          > <br class="">
                                                          > We are
                                                          getting
                                                          applications
                                                          from platforms
                                                          seeking to
                                                          join OSGeo.<br class="">
                                                          > <br class="">
                                                          > What do
                                                          you think?<br class="">
                                                          > --<br class="">
                                                          > Jody
                                                          Garnett<br class="">
                                                          >
                                                          _______________________________________________<br class="">
                                                          > Incubator
                                                          mailing list<br class="">
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                                          <div dir="ltr" class="">
                                            <div class="">--</div>
                                            <div class="">Jody Garnett</div>
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                <pre class="moz-signature" cols="80">-- 
Dr. Peter Baumann
 - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
   <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann</a>
   mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:p.baumann@jacobs-university.de" moz-do-not-send="true">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-freetext" href="https://rasdaman.com/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://rasdaman.com</a>, mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:baumann@rasdaman.com" moz-do-not-send="true">baumann@rasdaman.com</a>
   tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
"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." (mail disclaimer, AD 1083)


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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="80">-- 
Dr. Peter Baumann
 - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
   <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann">https://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-freetext" href="https://rasdaman.com">https://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
"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." (mail disclaimer, AD 1083)


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