<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Frank and others,<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Oct 26, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">By the way, the OSGeo Stack effort is definately an example of an important</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">effort that is currently essentially inactive for lack of someone to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">really take ownership.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>In other circumstances, I'd be interested in</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">taking it on, but I'm feeling stretched very thin already.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I'd also say we don't seem to have quite reached a consensus on what</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">we are trying to achieve.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>For instance there is still a lot of debate</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">about targetting specific linux distribution packaging systems, while I</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">(for one) think that is a mistake, and we need to take a distribution</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">agnostic approach even though I am very supportive of efforts by folks</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">like the Debian GIS team.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>I am happy to provide the DVD we just released as a starting point for a structure that allows individual projects to put their releases in and give a brief introduction and references to it. It does not have to have a GeoNetwork focus logically, it may have any focus. Someone may want to generate a disk that puts emphasis on a particular project and another one to make it more OSGeo centric. That would be a matter of replacing the index.html file and point to another css maybe.<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>We could than generate an OSGeo ISO image once every so many months (6!?) with a set deadline, so projects can if they want work towards that. At the same time, the stack is updated on the fly.<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Let me know how I can help on this if found useful.</DIV><DIV>Ciao,</DIV><DIV>Jeroen</DIV></BODY></HTML>