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

[María Arias de Reyna]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Julien Michel <julien.michel at cnes.fr>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am a fairly new charter member, so maybe the two following comments here
> will be irrelevant.
>
> From my perspective, having Orfeo ToolBox as an incubating project
> definitively helped us to move in the right direction. I am not saying that
> it would not have occured without OSGeo, but the organization gives the
> momentum and defines the standards to reach. As such, it is useful and
> somehow efficient. The fact that the process is long is mostly on the
> project side in our case.
>
> I think that the Github move is hazardous. Sure, it is easy, free for
> open-source projects, and really really cool. Granted, it helps a lot in
> getting fluid contributions to open-source projects. But ... in two years,
> they may start shipping sponsors links at the end of the Readme files, and
> in a moments notice you have to watch 20 seconds ads before cloning. At
> this point, you will want to bail out, only to find out that in fact you
> can not, because you can not delete the project anymore, or the issue
> tracker database can not be exported ...
>
> My point is, OSGeo should care about long-term protection of GIS
> open-source, and if this goal aligns for now with services that Github
> provides, it may no longer be the case in the future .Of course we need to
> be on Github: it is a public place to be, like twitter & co. But completely
> giving up code hosting and developers exchanges to a private company is the
> opposite of what I think the organization should do.
>
> I know proper hosting services requires time and money, I do not have the
> solution to that, but for me OSGeo should provide a sustainable
> alternative, up-to-date and tailored for its purpose.
>
>
Completely agree with you, Julien. Avoid openess and advance towards
freedom :)

The easiest solution is to have our own git repository+dashboard on our own
server, like with gitlab: https://about.gitlab.com/
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