OSGeo Stack - was: OSGeo community Maxed out?

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi Frank and others,

On Oct 26, 2006, at 1:05 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

>
> By the way, the OSGeo Stack effort is definately an example of an  
> important
> effort that is currently essentially inactive for lack of someone to
> really take ownership.  In other circumstances, I'd be interested in
> taking it on, but I'm feeling stretched very thin already.
>
> I'd also say we don't seem to have quite reached a consensus on what
> we are trying to achieve.  For instance there is still a lot of debate
> about targetting specific linux distribution packaging systems,  
> while I
> (for one) think that is a mistake, and we need to take a distribution
> agnostic approach even though I am very supportive of efforts by folks
> like the Debian GIS team.

I am happy to provide the DVD we just released as a starting point  
for a structure that allows individual projects to put their releases  
in and give a brief introduction and references to it. It does not  
have to have a GeoNetwork focus logically, it may have any focus.  
Someone may want to generate a disk that puts emphasis on a  
particular project and another one to make it more OSGeo centric.  
That would be a matter of replacing the index.html file and point to  
another css maybe.

We could than generate an OSGeo ISO image once every so many months  
(6!?) with a set deadline, so projects can if they want work towards  
that. At the same time, the stack is updated on the fly.

Let me know how I can help on this if found useful.
Ciao,
Jeroen
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