<div dir="ltr">Dear friends,<div><br></div><div>There has been a vivid discussion so far and I would like us to maintain a positive perspective of things. I fully understand that our community is diverse and that is a result/part of our success. We should all be respectful of each other and avoid fingerpointing and questioning contributions by our charter members.</div><div><br></div><div>I would like to propose a way forward:</div><div><br></div><div>1. We should <b>only</b> promote projects that are somehow affiliated with OSGeo (as other Free and Open Source organizations do eg. Apache, Eclipse)</div><div>2. All the projects that are currently listed in our beta web site have shown interest to be included (thanks to Jeffrey Johnson and Jody Garnett for hunting them down) and that is a very good thing, since we do want to be everyone's Open Source Compass. I very much like the idea of "Choose a Project" <a href="http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/choose-a-project/">http://osgeo.getinteractive.nl/choose-a-project/</a> Given point (1), all those projects are welcome to become OSGeo Community Projects, so we can keep listing them to our new site.</div><div>3. Lets make sure that our Graduated Projects and Projects in Incubation are listed first, with Community Projects following in the "Projects" page (we have already asked the web site vendor for a filter to be activated by default in that page).</div><div>4. Lets define low-entry rules for Community Projects (perhaps current rules are too low? Lets discuss....)</div><div><br></div><div>Current list of rules for Community Projects:</div><div>"If your project would like to join OSGeo the technology initiative asks:<br></div><div><div><br></div><div> * That your project is geospatial (or directly supports geospatial applications);</div><div> Data & doc projects would of course need an appropriate data or documentation license</div><div> * That your project is open source</div><div> Uses an OSI approved open source license</div><div> That you know where your source code came from, and that care is taken when accepting external contributions</div><div> * Participatory (accepts pull-requests)</div><div>"</div></div><div><br></div><div>A proposal for <b>new</b> rules:</div><div>* Has to have an OSI or FSF approved license and be found on the web in a public place.<br></div><div>* Has to be a geospatial project or useful for working with geospatial data or services. Data and documentation projects would of course need an appropriate data or documentation license</div><div>* Has to be useful on its own with normal data, and NOT require another license to really use it</div><div>* Has to be open for contributions and have instructions on how to contribute</div><div><br></div><div>The project should need to officially apply for being included as OSGeo Community Project, by answering a questionnaire (including information gathering for the web site and provide a point of contact for maintaining that information in the future)</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Angelos</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Angelos Tzotsos, PhD<br>OSGeo Charter Member<div><a href="http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos" target="_blank">http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos</a></div></span></span></div></div></div>
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