[Board] Resurrecting the Eclipse discussion

[Jody Garnett]

> I think that OSGeo should say:
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> * OSGeo wants to continue to be the recognised foundation that Geospatial Open Source projects turn to for support. In particular, we don't want to see the marketplace split by choosing between one foundation and another. Such a slit is likely to create a lot of bad will amongst the greater community, and lead to reduced productivity which will not be good for anyone.
I don't think we have much danger of that - a choice is not required. Projects already work with multiple groups (examples github for hosting; OSGeo for community development; source forge for file distribution; free software foundation for legal advice and so on …).
> * As such we wish to see the Eclipse Foundation worth through the OSGeo Foundation.
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> If we can get the Eclipse Foundation to agree to the above, then I think we can continue moving forward with a positive discussion.
Counter proposal here. We have already have a precedent of working with the OGC on a few activities (an interoperability day, a white paper and so on, and we maintain a osge-standards email list to facilitate discussion).

Perhaps we can treat this location working group in a similar fashion, consider it as an "OSGeo industry outreach" activity and ask that OSGeo maintain a representative in the group.

Aside: With respect to OGC collaboration, what is the process the OGC uses to define their open source reference implementations? Along with cite tests this seems like like an obvious candidate for direct collaboration.

Jody


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