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

[Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]]

Awesome, great to see geos heading in this direction. 

..Tom


> -----Original Message-----
> From: geos-devel-bounces at geos.refractions.net 
> [mailto:geos-devel-bounces at geos.refractions.net] On Behalf Of 
> Sean Gillies
> Sent: 03 October, 2007 12:01 PM
> To: GEOS Development List
> Subject: Re: [geos-devel] GEOS -> New Home / New Leadership
> 
> 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
> > 
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