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

[Frans Thamura]

Why should ibm?

If there dozen java ee container for geoserver

I can help for oracle if you want.


Frans Thamura
Meruvian
On Oct 30, 2012 7:51 PM, "Duarte Carreira" <DCarreira at edia.pt> wrote:

>  Jody, thanks for the concise update.****
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> I like the way Eclipse Foundation is able to link different membership
> levels and fees. Don’t know if that is feasible in OSGeo’s case but is
> certainly appealing… pity there are no IBMs in our facebook friends! Maybe
> if we linked GeoServer to WebSphere or Maximo… ;)****
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> Duarte****
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> *De:* Jody Garnett [mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com]
> *Enviada:* terça-feira, 30 de Outubro de 2012 11:23
> *Para:* Duarte Carreira
> *Cc:* discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> *Assunto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] any news on Eclipse Location Industry
> Working Group?****
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>   Have there been any progress on links with this new geo centred open
> source****
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> foundation group?****
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>  Arnulf covered the formal arrangements. ****
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>   How is this going to affect the official osgeo's projects? Will there be
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> common projects to both foundations? If so, will there be 2 repositories?*
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> 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…).****
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> 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.****
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>   It seems a discussion started on this but ended up disussing an
> embassador****
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> 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).
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>   Just trying to figure this new reality out...****
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>  I think it is the same reality :-)****
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> Jody****
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