[GRASS-user] Re: [OTT_OSGEO] GRASS OSGEO Steering Committee

[Frank Warmerdam]

Sampson, David wrote:
> So. Who is up for helping out to allow GRASS to move forward into 
> becoming an official and accepted member in OSGEO?

Dave,

Thanks for bringing up this topic again - OK, I did do some browbeating
to get you active on the topic. :-)

> If you have questions, comments or reservations to GRASS's involvement 
> in OSGEO let them be known so we can work them out. I personally had 
> initial reservations that were mostly due to lack of information that 
> were nicely attended to by the president of OSGEO (Frank Warmerdam) who 
> attended our meeting and is also a contributor to the GRASS project 
> (GDAL/OGR).
> 
> I propose a separate mailing list for business referring to the PSC.  I 
> propose psc at grass.osgeo.org if the owner of _http://grass.osgeo.org_ agrees.
> 
> I would also like to hear some chatter as to opinions on the whole matter.

I feel it would undermine the need to get the broad community behind a PSC
to segregate the discussion from the main grass mailing lists.  The problem
so far hasn't been that PSC discussions have overwhelmed the available the
existing mailing list traffic.

There were some reservations raised a few months ago about the PSC.  I wonder
if the folks with those reservations could propose some specific changes
to Markus' first draft of a PSC RFC.

 From the OSGeo point of view the key issues are:
  o There needs to be an accepted mechanism for making decisions.
  o The mechanism needs to be followed!
  o Someone needs to be designated as the spokesperson for the GRASS
    project, who will be considered responsible for it to some degree
    in reporting back to the board, and that it follows it's own rules.
  o Core OSGeo rules (ie. not improperly incorporating others code into
    the code base) need to be followed.
  o The process needs to be open to additional contributors in some
    fashion.

Beyond the above, the GRASS community has a great deal of flexibility in
deciding how to approach governance.

Best regards,
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