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<p>Thanks Hamish,</p>
<p>You have done some wonderful work getting projects onto
OSGeo-Live, but I'm aware that you have less time than you've had
before, and as such the currency of the projects on OSGeo-Live
have suffered.</p>
<p>If you know of anyone else in each of the project communities
worth reaching out to and asking if they can help, can you please
share their details so one of us can contact them. (Alternatively
you might have a personal connection with them and might want to
reach out yourself).</p>
<p>Feel free to share publicly or privately.</p>
<p>Cheers, Cameron<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25/4/17 9:38 am, Hamish B wrote:<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">Hi
all,<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">to
document some offline discussions here are some notes on some
packages which I've maintained in the past. (ah those halcyon
days when I had free moments to work on things properly...)<br>
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GMT: In theory this should just be an apt-get install and
minor tweak to the $PATH in /etc/bash.bashrc or
/etc/profile.d/. The harder part is providing a decent
quickstart for a complicated-to-use package. Package
remains popular in the world of geophysics, open any
AGU/EGU* publication, Science magazine etc and you'll see
lots of GMT-produced maps.<br>
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<div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><font
size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">[*] Hi to anyone there<br>
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MB Systems: n.b. depends/built on GMT<br>
- commit metrics may show few contributers but they are
full time funded programmers who act as the gatekeepers
for community patches. The mailing lists and userbase is
quite active.<br>
As a meta thing I'd suggest to add some sort of mailing
list/forum activity to the metrics as an additional
indicator of project health, if possible. Quickstart doc
could be parsed for the link?<br>
- Sending some needed patches to the current DebianGIS
package maintainers is on my todo list. Alas build systems
do not stand still.<br>
<br>
OpenCPN: fun, easy to use, vibrant community, arguably
better than any commercial offerings in the space, lots of
plugins, ... but no marketing budget beyond word of mouth
between boaties. As long as the packages are in good shape
I'd vote to keep it going.<br>
<br>
ZyGrib: not nearly as refined as OpenCPN but fills its
niche quite well and puts weather forecasting in the hands
of the people in a way that (as far as I'm aware) no other
software does. Used together with a OpenCPN's GRIB overlay
plugin there's a gorgeous gee-whiz demo available. I'll
have to prepare a screenshot to show that off.<br>
<br>
Sahana/Ushahidi: I really like having some blatant
FOSS-for-good software on the disc, but the communities
really need to step up here to maintain them. The "geo"
tie may not be as "hard-geo" as geo-format processing
tools, but at least the main work-canvas is a map and it
passes any geo-as-global (e.g. national geographic/bbc
world) test.<br>
<br>
OSM: if metrics show Merkaartor/osmosis are withering on
the vine, so be it. Note some of the tools are part of
the OSM data city-extract production tool-chain so not
much extra work to keep them around. I assume some small
background tools can be left on the disc even if a
quickstart/summary doesn't make the cut?<br>
<br>
R: is it "geo" enough to justify inclusion/megabytes used?
(same question for Octave [does the m_map toolbox for
Matlab work with Octave? FOSS-enough license?])<br>
<br>
Viking: I haven't been paying attention to how active it
is. If new versions are coming in from ubuntu and the
install is little more than apt-get install I'd say keep
it, otherwise if it is stalled for years and little
interest I'd say dump it.<br>
<br>
<br>
As a general thing, if projects want to stay they can send
someone to help.<br>
<br>
<br>
I'd suggest to leave GMT/MB Sys/OpenCPN/ZyGrib in my
hands, and if updates
are not in place by 15 May put non-working things onto the
hibernation track as
needed.<br>
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<br>
best regards from deep in the south pacific,<br>
Hamish</span></font><br>
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