<div dir="ltr">MetaCRS could form as an initiative at OSGeo (specifically an initiative to help projects work on interoperability around spatial reference systems).<div><br></div><div>I know we talked about reclassifying MetaCRS as a community project when the concept was introduced last year ... but lacked sufficient guidance from the MetaCRS team.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Jody Garnett</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 August 2017 at 10:45, Even Rouault <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:even.rouault@spatialys.com" target="_blank">even.rouault@spatialys.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">On mercredi 2 août 2017 10:21:08 CEST Jody Garnett wrote:</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Good morning list:</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> MetaCRS is listed as being an "Incubating Project" on <a href="http://osgeo.org" target="_blank">osgeo.org</a>.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> For the website redesign we are focused on grouping projects into OSGeo</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Community and OSGeo Project categories.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> MetaCRS is currently in incubation, we have an open question if an osgeo</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> logo is still useful? Does the MetaCRS mailing list have any wishes here?</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> For logos please see: <a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation" target="_blank">https://github.com/OSGeo/<wbr>osgeo/tree/master/incubation</a></p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> </p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> Because MetaCRS is a collection of sub projects I wanted to ask if any of</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> the subprojects would like to join OSGeo as a Community Project? There are</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> a couple of requirements (like being open source) that I would be happy to</p>
<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">> discuss.</p>
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</span><p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Jody,</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I don't have any official authority regarding MetaCRS but I think we had some related discussions in past months, and I believe the outcome (or at least it is my opinion :-)) was that MetaCRS was too "meta" (both for outsiders and insiders)... to be a OSGeo project. For example there is a PSC, but when a motion is raised about a project (let's say to approve a release), probably only the PSC member of the said project has an informed opinion about the motion. MetaCRS mostly exists as a mailing list to share ideas / questions / collaboration about CRS issues. From a branding perspective, the name of each subproject is certainly more known to more people than the MetaCRS name.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">I'm pretty sure that proj.4 meet all requirements to qualify as a Community Project : open source, geo and participatory.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px">Even</p>
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