[OSGeo-Discuss] any news on Eclipse Location Industry Working Group?

[Jody Garnett]

> Have there been any progress on links with this new geo centred open source
> foundation group?
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Arnulf covered the formal arrangements.  
> How is this going to affect the official osgeo's projects? Will there be
> common projects to both foundations? If so, will there be 2 repositories?
> Will funding raised by Eclipse LIWG reach projects on OSGeo?
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My take is that OSGeo is focused on fostering open source spatial, our mandate allows us to work with projects wherever we find them (LocationTech, Apache etc…).

I got to cover this in a recent presentation on OSGeo and Incubation (http://how2map.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/osgeo-incubation-start-of-something.html). Hopefully I did the topic justice.
> It seems a discussion started on this but ended up disussing an embassador
> role... did anyone attend their 1st meeting after all?
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I have been attending the LocationTech meetings, the uDig project I work on has a proposal (http://locationtech.org/proposals/user-friendly-desktop-internet-gis-udig) to join LocationTech (in part because it is an Eclipse RCP project). So far it has been educational experience comparing the incubation process between the foundations (and a bit of a pain selecting a license (http://udig-news.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/udig-change-to-epl-and-bsd-license.html) compatible with the Eclipse foundation).
> Just trying to figure this new reality out...
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I think it is the same reality :-)

Jody
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