[Board] LocationTech meeting October 2013 - short report

[Jody Garnett]

I expect LocationTech will last, keep in mind that LocationTech only now has enough participants to go on a road show (and has yet to form a steering committee). The Eclipse Foundation itself will last a long time in the future. I expect the role of LocationTech (as an industry working group) will evolve over time as spatial is used in more software.

The Eclipse Foundation operates with restrictions on the licenses used, so I do not see the possibility of merging. However individual projects may certainly belong to both organisations.

On the plus side the Eclipse Foundation is gradually relaxing in order to work with others (partially in response to the culture shift marked by Apache Considered Harmful ).

-- 
Jody Garnett

On 29 October 2013 at 2:50:25 am, Bart van den Eijnden (bartvde at osgis.nl) wrote:

Hey Anne,  

this is also my impression, do you see the two co-existing for a long time in the future if that’s the case?  

Or would there be more synergies by merging (if this is at all a possibility)?  

Best regards,  
Bart  

On 28 Oct 2013, at 16:43, Anne Ghisla <a.ghisla at gmail.com> wrote:  

> Hello Board!  
>  
> I attended LocationTech's working group meeting today:  
> http://locationtech.org/content/working-group-meeting-october-2013  
>  
> The agenda items were grouped in two main topics: the LT East Coast  
> Tour (US, Canada):  
> http://tour.locationtech.org/  
>  
> and the new projects and proposals:  
> http://locationtech.org/list-of-projects  
>  
> The discussion showed me a point of view on geospatial technologies  
> that is quite close to OSGeo's vision.  
> As the new liaison, I plan to keep the Board and wider community  
> updated on LocationTech activities, and encourage collaboration on our  
> common goals.  
>  
> Best,  
>  
> Anne  
> --  
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla  
> _______________________________________________  
> Board mailing list  
> Board at lists.osgeo.org  
> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board  

_______________________________________________  
Board mailing list  
Board at lists.osgeo.org  
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board  
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/attachments/20131029/dfaeae13/attachment.htm>