[Incubator] Rasdaman Incubation application [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Jody Garnett]

Sure thing bruce; I suspect I am supposed to start a wiki page with the agenda. 
Let me hunt that down and get back to you...

Aside: I am at spatial at gov this week; send some of your co-workers over to talk to me.-- 
Jody Garnett


On Tuesday, 15 November 2011 at 8:43 AM, 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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