[Incubator] Vote: GeoMoose Graduation - community

[Cameron Shorter]

On 22/03/2013 2:48 AM, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
>>> >>  (I think the project is getting close, but not quite ready to
>>> >>  complete
>>> >>  graduation)
>>> >>  
>>> >>  1. I notice that there are 7 committers to the project, from 5
>>> >>  organisations. I consider this to be a low, but acceptable number
>>> >>  for a maturing project if the organisations are independent of
>>> >>  each other.
>>> >>  However, I'd like to know who sponsors all these developers and
>>> >>  organisations? Is all the work ultimately being sponsored by the
>>> >>  one agency?
> [bob.b said . . .] each agency/company is sponsoring the individuals as listed here:http://www.geomoose.org/wiki/index.php/GeoMoose_Incubation_Status
>
> No one agency or company has control of the project.  Some work is sponsored while others are project handbacks from specific projects offered up via the PSC for adding improvements to GeoMoose.  Improvements to the project have come from each of the committers home organizations in the form of donated time, as well as from formal improvement projects from each organization.
>
Bob, this doesn't answer my question.
I'm interested to understand if any of the organisations contracts work 
to another of the organisations.
Eg: Does the City of Saint Paul contract work to SharedGeo?
Are there are any other similar financial relationships between 
organisations?


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