[Board] quick project status check and response to budget inquiry

[Angelos Tzotsos]

No worries, I should be setting a good example :)

On 1/21/19 12:03 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> No worries Angelos ... I was trying to tease you (and also acknowledge you)
> for talking care of everyone else first. Sorry if it did not come across
> right :-P
>
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 1:59 PM Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Jody,
>>
>> Sorry I did not find time to communicate this, but I have been reaching
>> out to project officers asking for action/reports.
>> Regarding the projects I represent, we are about to report back.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Angelos
>>
>> On 1/20/19 3:07 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>
>> Quick thanks to Angelos for the initial emails to the project list.
>>
>> Going to try and reach out to officers individually (using officers list<https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/> <https://www.osgeo.org/about/board/> and contacts<https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Contacts> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Contacts> wiki as required so sometimes two
>> names are listed):
>>
>> - deegree:  Markus Schneider or Jens Fitzke
>> - FDO + MapGuide Open Source: Jackie Ng
>> - geomajas: Pieter De Graef
>> - GeoMOOSE: Bob and Brian
>> - GeoNetwork: Jeroen
>> - GeoNode: Jeffrey
>> - GEOS: Sandro
>> - Mapbender: Astrid and Olaf (project needs a new officer)
>> - MapFish: Eric Lemoine
>> - MapServer: Steve Lime
>> - Marble: Torsten
>> - OpenLayers: Bart and Tim
>> - OSSIM: Mark and Garrett
>> - PostGIS: Paul (there was an entry in the code-sprint section that can
>> probably be moved)
>> - pycsw: Angelos <-- did not reply to his own email :)
>> - OSGeoLive: Angelos <-- still not replying to his own email
>>
>> For the projects that appear inactive I included an invitation to scale
>> back to OSGeo community program.
>>
>> Thanks to all the projects that have responded, and a tip of the hat to
>> gvSIG (we have been using your budget as an example).
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 19 Jan 2019 at 14:31, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Going to share this here as one of our responsibility is to check-in with
>> projects.
>>
>> Here are notes from todo activity
>>
>> <https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/29> <https://git.osgeo.org/gitea/osgeo/todo/issues/29> contacting projects
>>
>>
>>     - deegree: active codebase, no response
>>     - FDO: active codebase, PSC inactive (consider as *community project?*)
>>     - GDAL/OGR: *responded*
>>     - geomajas: last activity august 2018
>>     - GeoMOOSE: very active, no response
>>     - GeoNetwork: very active, no response
>>     - GeoNode: active, no response
>>     - GEOS: active, no response
>>     - GeoServer: *responded*
>>     - GeoTools: *responded*
>>     - GRASS: activer, no response
>>     - gvSIG: actually responded with a budget!
>>     - Mapbender: active codebase, no response
>>     - MapFish: website and latest release from 2011, consider as *community
>>     project?*)
>>     - MapGuide Open Source: PSC inactive, consider as *community project?*
>>     - MapServer: active codebase, no response
>>     - Marble: active codebase, no response
>>     - OpenLayers: active codebase, no response
>>     - OSSIM: active codebase, no budget response
>>     - PostGIS: activer codebase, no response
>>     - pycsw: active codebase, no response
>>     - QGIS: *responded*
>>     - OSGeoLive: last commit in September, discussion on mailing list but
>>     no response yet
>>
>>
>> Unless anyone has any objects I would like to discuss treating FDO,
>> MapFish, MapGuide Open Source as community projects for the 2019 budget.
>> This allows the us to fund projects like MapGuide Open Source while
>> acknowledging that they no meet as a committee. Should any of these
>> projects step up in activity it should be easy for them to go through
>> incubation as their procedures are already in place.
>>
>> We may also wish to speak with the QGIS PSC about QGIS Server being listed
>> as a community project. This would allow us a way to thread the needle
>> between QGIS being graduated and the QGIS team adding and additional
>> project which is not yet part of OSGeo.
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>>
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>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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