[Incubator] Re: Rasdaman Incubation application [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Peter Baumann]

Bruce, all-

this is great news indeed. I appreciate your valuation. For sure we remain 
available to resolve any issue spotted.
Particular thanks goes to you, Bruce, for volunteering on additional workload on 
your desk.

cheers,
Peter





On 11/14/2011 10:43 PM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
> Jody,
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> Can we please revisit the Rasdaman community's application for incubation
> with OSGeo? The original request is at [1].
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> This has been outstanding for nearly two years.
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> I have been monitoring Rasdaman community mailing lists over this period and
> am please to report that:
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> - a vibrant community is starting to develop with a marked increase in
> momentum over the last six months;
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> - most discussions appear to be occurring on public mailing lists;
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> - a process is in place to capture source code contributions, together with
> an assignment of IP rights, see [2];
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> - new developers joining the community from outside of the original
> developers of the software. This includes at least one additional developer
> being granted commit rights to the source code repository;
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> - there is work underway to integrate Rasdaman with key OSGeo projects such
> as GDAL and MapServer. There is also activity on package management via rpm
> underway that I anticipate will result in liaison with the OSGeo Enterprise
> Linux community;
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> - Key Rasdaman community members are also very active within the OGC
> Community and actively leading and contributing to the development and
> enhancement of a number of standards, including a new version of the
> coverage model, as well as WCS 2.0.
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> Given the positive trend, I believe that it is time for the Incubation
> Community to revisit this application with a view to admitting Rasdaman into
> incubation.
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> For your consideration.
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> Bruce Bannerman
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> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/553
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> [2]
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