[Incubator] Motion: Decline Incubation for GeoFunctions

[Rushforth, Peter]

Arnulf,

I've entered a link to GeoFunctions' SourceForge project on the 
OSGEO Labs wiki page.  I guess being the first
project to be officially rejected by the incubation committee brings
me the honour of being the first project listed on the OSGEO Labs page
:-).

I know the big GIS companies always feared the day that geo programmers
would discover the Power Of XSLT, and GeoFunctions will bring that day 
a little closer :D, it may take just a little more time!

Cheers,
Peter Rushforth

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Arnulf Christl
> Sent: October 9, 2007 11:18
> To: Incubator at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Incubator] Motion: Decline Incubation for GeoFunctions
> 
> Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> > Motion: The OSGeo Incubation Committee chooses not to recommend 
> > GeoFunctions for incubation at this time.
> 
> +1 not to recommend GeoFunctions for incubation at this time
> 
> This feels somewhat categoric but is not intended that way. I 
> think the thread on Discuss started by Paul Spencer is a good 
> indication of what the issue is. I can see that Julien's try 
> at a Labs page has not been taken up (as usual, somebody 
> actually does something and no one cares, talking is much 
> more important... :-). Just do that:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php?title=OSGeo_Labs&action=edit&section=8
> 
> Visibility of the OSGeo Wiki is really high, search engines 
> love alive MediaWikis. If I search Google with "GeoFunctions 
> + XSLT" the first ten hits are all OSGeo or FOSS4G. So the 
> first goal of getting some visibility is already working out 
> just fine. Keep up the good pace and someday the project 
> might have enough speed to get off the ground or even join 
> with another good project. 
> 
> Best regards,
> Arnulf. 
> 
> > ----
> > 
> > Folks,
> > 
> > I *think* we reached a degree of consensus that GeoFunctions is not 
> > well enough established, and does not have a large enough existing 
> > community to be appropriate for OSGeo incubation at this 
> time.  This 
> > motion is an attempt to formalize a decision.
> > 
> >   http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/146
> > 
> > My intent is to leave this motion open for discussion and 
> voting for 
> > two days.  If anyone feels we need further consideration, 
> just vote -1 
> > on the motion with some explanation of what issues need to 
> be further discussed.
> > 
> > I do think that GeoFunctions is interesting and useful 
> technology.  I 
> > would like to encourage Peter to setup a sourceforge or similar 
> > project for it, and list it on the nacent OSGeo Labs page:
> > 
> >   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/OSGeo_Labs
> > 
> > Best regards,
> 
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