[geos-devel] GEOS -> New Home / New Leadership

[Stephen Lime]

Great news, congratulations. Your proposal sounds reasonable. Might it 
make sense to
add a 5th person to have a odd number to break "ties"? Perhaps an 
external developer
already contributing to the codebase?

Steve

On Oct 2, 2007, at 1:54 PM, Paul Ramsey wrote:

> All,
>
> At FOSS4G, I had a long discussion with folks from Safe, Ingres, and 
> Autodesk about the future of GEOS. The bottom line is that they are 
> all interested in investing more in extending and moving GEOS 
> forwards.
>
> In order to make those investments more effective and future-proof and 
> give the companies a voice in the project going forward, I am 
> proposing a number of measures:
>
> (a) At a technical level, having a Trac infrastructure for bugs and 
> wiki notes and code browsing would be nice. I can set that up myself, 
> but OSGeo already has that infrastructure. So I propose migrating the 
> code to the OSGeo infrastructure, if possible.
> (b) At a steering level, taking the Project Steering Committee (PSC) 
> role out of the explicit control of a single maintainer (historically 
> funded by Refractions) and into a full PSC.
> (c) A and B above are in aid of an eventual move into OSGeo Incubation 
> and full OSGeo project membership. We know these will have to be done 
> to enter OSGeo, so might as well start now.
>
> I would like to get the PSC boot-strapped with representatives from 
> the existing user/developer base of GEOS.
>
> May I propose:
>
> - Martin Davis, Refractions, who has an understanding of the 
> architecture
> - Representatives of Autodesk and Safe, who already have "skin in the 
> game" and are gearing up for more development
> - Howard Butler, who can navigate our passage into the OSGeo 
> infrastructure world, and provide a viewpoint from build maintenance 
> and script bindings
>
> This PSC can serve for six months, adding whomever it sees fit, and 
> then be re-formed based on the conditions in March 2008.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Paul
>
>
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>
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