[Incubator] [MetaCRS] Meeting 19 - July 23rd

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks Landon, I also subscribe to a couple of the project lists to see if I can help. 

We do try and keep mentors focused on one project, in part so the incubation committee is not such a burden to take part in 

-- 
Jody Garnett


On Tuesday, 24 July 2012 at 3:02 AM, Landon Blake wrote:

> I joined the MetaCRS mailing list a couple of years ago to help with
> Proj4J and a standard test file format for CRS utilities.
> 
> I can work with Daniel to see about moving things forward with MetaCRS
> incubation. I'd need to know where MetaCRS is currently at in the
> process, and then I'd need to bounce some ideas about how to move
> forward of the MetaCRS mailing list.
> 
> Landon
> 
> 
> Landon Blake, P.L.S.
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> [mailto:metacrs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2012 12:37 PM
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> Cc: metacrs at lists.osgeo.org (mailto:metacrs at lists.osgeo.org)
> Subject: Re: [MetaCRS] [Incubator] Meeting 19 - July 23rd
> 
> On 12-07-15 7:29 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> > I would also like to invite anyone unable to attend the meeting to 
> > provide a quick status update via email, or let us know if assistance 
> > is required.
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi Jody,
> 
> Here is my quick report as MetaCRS mentor. To be honest there is no real
> progress to report after close to 4 years in incubation. The project is
> not actively working on going through incubation, but then I have not
> been pinging them about this either so it would be hard to blame them.
> 
> MetaCRS is a special case as it actually regroups several projects
> dealing with coordinate reference system support, so this project is in
> large part about sharing expertize, maybe even more than just code.
> 
> CRS libs are a key part of every piece of OSGeo software and I consider
> that it is important to get them through incubation at some point, so I
> would advise keeping them in incubation at this point despite the lack
> of progress.
> 
> Hopefully when Frank (MetaCRS PSC chair) comes back we can talk about
> getting the project back on track with incubation.
> 
> More about MetaCRS here:
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MetaCRS
> 
> Daniel
> --
> Daniel Morissette
> http://www.mapgears.com/
> Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000
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