[Board] Re: [SAC] Motion to provide Trac/SVN/Mailman services to GeoPrisma

[Arnulf Christl]

On Tue, October 20, 2009 08:24, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
>
> This motion has passed with +1 from DanielM, FrankW, ShawnB and AlanB.
>
>
> I believe the next step is to forward this motion to the board, which
> I'm doing now, and if no objections are raised within a couple of days
> then we can move ahead.
>
> Daniel

Daniel,
this is just to confirm that I saw this message, looked into the project
and believe it is very worthwhile to support. No objections.

Best regards,
Arnulf.

> Daniel Morissette wrote:
>
>> I hereby motion for OSGeo to provide Trac, SVN and Mailman services for
>>  the GeoPrisma project, with Alan Boudreault as primary admin for the
>> setup and support of the services.
>>
>> ... and I start with my +1
>>
>>
>> More about GeoPrisma:
>>
>>
>> GeoPrisma is an access control layer that sits between client Web
>> Mapping applications based on MapFish/GeoExt/OpenLayers and standard
>> services running on the server (WMS, WFS, FeatureServer, TileCache, etc).
>> The actual implementation is a proxy server that validates all
>> service requests against an Access Control List, and also builds/adapts
>> the user interface to match the privileges of the user currently
>> viewing the application.
>>
>> The project is currently developed in collaboration between Mapgears,
>> Boreal-IS and Nippour Geomatik and has been deployed at several client
>> sites already. The release of GeoPrisma under an Open Source (BSD)
>> licence will be announced at FOSS4G next week as part of our
>> presentation about the project:
>> http://2009.foss4g.org/presentations/#presentation_146
>>
>>
>> Since the project provides the glue for access control between several
>> OSGeo components, we believe it is a good fit to be hosted at OSGeo, and
>>  we also plan on applying for incubation once the project has taken off
>>  and gained some momentum.
>>
>> There is no public site for the project yet (we plan on opening up
>> http://www.geoprisma.org/ after the announcement), but a demo and more
>> information is available at http://dev4g.mapgears.com/geoprisma/demo/
>>
>> Ticket #490 has already been created about this:
>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/490
>>
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
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> Daniel Morissette
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