MapServer Foundation - Open Letter

[Fischer, Brian]

I agree with Chip's 1. and 2.  This makes sense and will be the least
confusing to the user base and community.  It also does not imply one
project is better then the other.

Brian Fischer
Houston Engineering, Inc.
Maple Grove, MN
(763) 493-4522

-----Original Message-----
From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On
Behalf Of Chip Taylor
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 10:09 AM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer Foundation - Open Letter

My input (and this needs to be done before the concrete sets on all
this:

1. Change the name of the Foundation to something less product-pointed
and
more in keeping with the purpose, such as Foundation for Open Source Web
Mapping

2. Add the Foundation moniker to the existing names for the two code
bases:
     FOSWM Mapserver
     FOSWM MapGuide

3. Specify in the charter that no code from any FOSWM may be included in
a
commercial product.

My input (FWIW),
  Chip "Acronym Man" Taylor
  Prepared Response, Inc.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: UMN MapServer Users List [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU]
On
> Behalf Of Gary Lang
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 8:01 AM
> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
> Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] MapServer Foundation - Open Letter
> 
> OK. So here's a sincere call for input.
> 
> Here's the rub. Regardless of who made the mistake of suggesting it, I
> liked the name and agreed that we would go with it, so I'll take
> responsibility for MSE.
> 
> On the back of that, we - what can now be seen as the TSC-x cabal + 1
> ADSK person - started drifting from foundation names that had more
> umbrella-like characteristics like osgis.org, mapcommunity, maptools,
> etc. and towards something that focuses on what we were putting out
> together. Based on the fact that both products were named MapServer in
> the root, we went with "MapServer Foundation".
> 
> Now let's assume we change the name back to MapGuide. Why would I now
> want to cripple any hope of adoption by anybody by putting it in a
> foundation (that I helped name) that highlights one map serving
product
> over another?
> 
> So far the community is showing more common sense than we were on
this,
> so I'm interested to hear your opinions.
> 
> Gary
> 
>