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

[Sean Gillies]

Sounds good to me, Paul.

Sean

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
>