[Incubator] Motion: Recommend gvSIG for Incubation
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Tue Jul 10 17:17:29 EDT 2007
+1. I had extended chats with Miguel Montesinos a few weeks ago and was
convinced that gvSIG has a healthy community which is the backbone for a
successful project.
Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Incubation Committee Members,
>
> I motion that the gvSIG project be recommended to the OSGeo board for
> entrance into incubation with Gabriel Carrión as project representative
> and Jeroen Ticheler as mentor.
>
> ----
>
> I would like to close voting on this motion Tuesday July 17th. This
> should give time for some discussion before folks need to commit to a
> position.
>
> Please keep in mind that today we agree to limit ourselves to ten
> projects
> in incubation at a time. We currently have nine projects in incubation.
> The criteria for project evaluation for entrance into incubation can be
> found at:
>
> http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/evaluation.html
>
> The gvSIG team submitted this application:
>
> Dear OSGeo Incubator Committee members,
>
> On behalf of the gvSIG Project Team, we are glad to request entry
> for our project in the OSGeo Incubator, as a previous step to become one
> day an official OSGeo Project.
>
> It's been some time since we wanted to start this process and
> strengthen our links to OSGeo. The gvSIG Project is right now embarking
> on a process to restructure its governance and development mechanisms,
> providing a framework for a more collaborative and open community, and
> we hope that OSGeo can offer us references and support in some of the
> issues we will be facing. We believe that in return the OSGeo community
> will also benefit from a closer participation of gvSIG developers and
> users.
>
> We look forward to working with the designated Mentor in moving
> forward through the incubation process. Please contact us for any
> questions or further information requests.
>
> Best regards,
>
> The gvSIG Project Owners
>
>
>
> * 1. Please provide the name and email address of the principal
> Project Owner.*
>
> Gabriel Carrión: carrion_gab at gva.es
>
> * 2. Please provide the names and emails of co-project owners (if
> any).*
>
> Luis W. Sevilla: sevilla_lui at gva.es
>
> Salvador Bayarri: salvador.bayarri at iver.es
>
> Mike Gould: gould at lsi.uji.es
>
> * 3. Please provide the names, emails and entity affiliation of all
> official committers*
>
> Luis W. Sevilla: sevilla_lui at gva.es CIT (Ministry Infrastructure
> &
> Transport)
>
> Salvador Bayarri: salvador.bayarri at iver.es IVER company
>
> Joaquín del Cerro: joaquin.delcerro at iver.es IVER company
>
> Fran Peñarrubia: fran.penarrubia at iver.es IVER company
>
> Miguel Montesinos: mmontesinos at prodevelop.es ProDevelop company
>
> * 4. Please describe your Project.*
>
> gvSIG is a project mainly sponsored by the Regional Ministry of
> Infrastructure and Transport of Valencia, Spain. It is aimed at
> developing a comprehensive desktop GIS solution that easily integrates
> services provided by Spatial Data Infrastructures as well as regular
> sources of geospatial data. More information can be found at the project
> web site (www.gvsig.org = www.gvsig.gva.es).
>
> gvSIG is now widely used in many administrations, public and private
> organizations in Spain, Latin America and elsewhere. The project has
> been so far developed mostly in cooperation with local companies and
> universities, and it aims now at extending its base of developers and
> users.
>
> * 5. Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project?*
>
> * The gvSIG project would like to extend its community of
> international developers and users, providing a more open platform for
> collaboration. The adoption by OSGeo is expected to help us in doing
> that transition.
>
> * The gvSIG project would like to strengthen its ties to other FOSS
> GIS projects.
>
> * The gvSIG project aims at maintaining a high degree of quality and
> compliance with open standards and practices supported by international
> organizations, as well as participating in the improvement of those
> standards and practices.
>
> * 6. Type of application does this project represent(client, server,
> standalone, library, etc.):*
>
> A multiplatform, Java-based standalone desktop application.
>
> * 7. Please describe any relationships to other open source projects.*
>
> gvSIG has working relationships with many FOSS projects. In the
> geospatial area:
>
> * MapServer, GeoServer, DeeGree, GeoNetwork. Since gvSIG integrates
> services provided by these tools, direct contact has been established
> with developers and representatives of these projects, which in many
> cases have resulted in fixes and improvements on both sides.
>
> * GeoTools, PostGIS. Results of these projects are used within gvSIG
> and direct contact has been established with project developers and
> representatives to define common interests.
>
> * 8. Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or
> products.*
>
> Recently, gvSIG has been adding support for commercial geospatial web
> services and databases, adding drivers for ArcIMS (ESRI) Map and Feature
> services, and support for Oracle Spatial databases and ArcSDE (ESRI)
> will be coming soon. However, no direct contact or agreement exists with
> those companies.
>
> * 9. Which open source license(s) will the source code be released
> under?*
>
> gvSIG is released under GNU Public License (GPL).
>
> * 10. Is there already a beta or official release?*
>
> Yes, gvSIG was first released on October 2004 and it is currently in
> version 1.0.2.
>
> * 11. What is the origin of your project (commercial, experimental,
> thesis or other higher education, government, or some other source)?*
>
> It is government sponsored, originally within an open source migration
> programme. It currently has strong commercial and educational
> participation.
>
> * 12. Does the project support open standards? Which ones and to what
> extent? (OGC, w3c, ect.) Has the software been certified to any standard
> (CITE for example)? If not, is it the intention of the project owners to
> seek certification at some point?*
>
> gvSIG wholeheartedly supports open standards, specifically:
>
> * XML and related standards from W3C, in document persistence and
> in all accesses to remote services.
>
> * OGC standards, as web service client:
> o WMS (1.1.0 - 1.3.0)
> o WFS (1.0.0) + GML import/export (2.1.2) at 1.0
> o WCS (1.0.0)
> o Catalogue search (OGC CSW 2.0, IDEC)
> o Gazetteer search (WFS 1.0.0, WFS-G 0.9, ADL)
>
> * GML 2.X, as data import and export
>
> * 13. Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the
> copyright?*
>
> gvSIG is free of patents and trademarks, and the copyright is controlled
> by the project owners.
>
> * 14. How many people actively contribute (code, documentation, other?)
> to the project at this time?*
>
> Core coding: 40
> Documentation/testing: 10
> Admin, support, training: 12
> Other (collaborators, consultants) 5
>
> * 15. How many people have commit access to the source code repository?*
>
> Currently, most developers, about 30. Access is restricted during
> stabilization phases.
>
> * 16. Approximately how many users are currently using this project?*
>
> We directly know about 1,000 active users in public administrations and
> about 200 users in universities. We estimate based on download numbers
> and list activity about 18,000 active users overall.
>
> * 17. What type of users does your project attract (government,
> commercial, hobby, academicknow research, etc. )?*
>
> Mostly from government organizations and academic institutions (for
> education and research). Several companies are already providing
> customized versions and extensions used in different professional
> contexts.
>
> * 18. If you do not intend to host any portion of this project using
> the OSGeo infrastructure, why should you be considered a member project
> of the OSGeo Foundation?*
>
> We would evaluate the options to use the OSGeo infrastructure, however,
> our goals in joining OSGeo (see question 5) do not depend on the actual
> hosting infrastructure.
>
> * 19. Does the project include an automated build and test?*
>
> It does include automatic build procedures and some automated tests. We
> are currently actively extending the suite of automated tests.
>
> * 20. What language(s) are used in this project? (C/Java/perl/etc)*
>
> Java, with some JNI bridges to support C-based libraries like GDAL.
>
> * 21. What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French,
> Spanish, German, etc) of the core developers?*
>
> Spanish, but a good number of them are proficient in English and some in
> French.
>
> * 22. What is the (estimated) size of a full release of this project?
> How many users do you expect to download the project when it is
> released?*
>
> Estimated size: Full binaries, about 40 Mb; Documentation, about 8 Mb;
> Sources, including JNI, about 70 Mb.
> The number of downloads since release of version 1.0 is about 20,000.
>
> Best regards,
--
Cameron Shorter
Systems Architect, http://lisasoft.com.au
Tel: +61 (0)2 8570 5050
Mob: +61 (0)419 142 254
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