[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo is becoming irrelevant. Here's why. Let's fix it.

[Andrea Aime]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Milo van der Linden <milo at dogodigi.net>
wrote:

> Being a "don't talk, act" member since 2008, entrepreneur and former
> chairman of a couple of local initiatives, I strongly agree.
>
> Seeing all the "empty talkers" from my country run for charter membership
> and still not having geoserver, which is the most mature open geospatial
> product I can think of pas incubation made me completely lose interest in
> OSGeo.
>

Hi Milo,
to be completely honest, I cannot put an ounce of blame on OSGeo for
GeoServer not graduating quickly, the goals were there and were clear and
GeoServer was basically satisfying all but one of them from day one:
unfortunately we failed to execute on the IP review, which is a manual,
long, boring task, mostly because we were too busy with other stuff.
Eventually Jody managed to wrangle volunteers at a code sprint, got every
single file checked/fixed/reported, and voilà, shortly after we passed
graduation.

Other foundations have a dedicated team to do IP reviews, but those are
paid staff, not sure OSGeo can afford that... on the other side, every
project with a large code base will have a hard time putting aside the time
to go though every single file to check for IP violations.

Just my 2 (euro) cents ;-)

Cheers
Andrea

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