[Incubator] Re: Is rasdaman suitable/ready for OSGeo incubation?

[Peter Baumann]

Hi Tyler,

another valuable hint. I like this clear structuring of information - 
which admittedly is a nontrivial process while building an 
information-rich website. Actually, it is an act of continuously 
striving for improvement. The recently added feature matrix was one such 
point, here is another which I have put on our list.

So thanks for your hints & clarifications,
Peter


On 12/08/2010 06:33 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>
> On December 8, 2010 02:14:20 am Peter Baumann wrote:
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> > Cameron-
>
> >
>
> > you have suggested to remove all references to the commercial support of
>
> > rasdaman from the rasdaman.org site.
>
> > How does this compare to PostGIS?
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I don't think anyone is going to be turned off by your fairly low-key 
> mention of providing consulting services. Many (most?) projects have a 
> link to consulting services available.
>
> You'll hit a challenge though when someone else from the community 
> also provides services and would like to have an equal playing field 
> with you. But that's easily handled by having a directory of service 
> providers, GeoServer commercial support page is a good example in my 
> opinion: http://geoserver.org/display/GEOS/Commercial+Support
>
> Having rasdaman.com makes a pretty clear cut between the FOSS project 
> .org site and the additional services you are offering up. And does 
> suggest that "control" of the .org is not == to the .com at some level 
> anyway.
>
> Unless you start having flashing banner ads for the .com on the .org 
> site I doubt you'll be offending anyone :)
>
> Tyler
>
> p.s. I don't think you'll have any opposition to GPL during the 
> incubation process either.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Tyler Mitchell
>
> Executive Director, OSGeo
>
> tmitchell at osgeo.org
>
> +1-250-303-1831
>
> See you at FOSS4 2011 <http://2011.foss4g.org> Denver in September!
>

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