[Incubator] Recommend Graduation of Rasdaman from OSGeo Incubation

[Bruce Bannerman]

Jody,

We still have some outstanding requests for additional information from the
Rasdaman community:

- Cameron's request for a summary of how Rasdaman meets each incubation
checklist point. I was going to add additional observations to that
provided by the community where required.

- following on from Frank's request and my follow up emails, we're waiting
for a comment from the Rasdaman PSC on how they see that the Rasdaman
community could add functionality that is currently within the commercial
version to the community version, should the community deem this action to
be desirable. From Rasdaman Community user feedback, an excellent example
to guide this response could be the inclusion of support for 'null' values.

While I understand that key community members have had other commitments, I
suggest either:

- putting a limit on the response time.

- withdrawing the motion recommending graduation, pending an appropriate
response.


I will be travelling for the next few weeks and will now have little
bandwidth to follow up on additional information requested from me until
early December.

Bruce



On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> We are running into the end of our 10 business days - if you have not
> already done so please take this opportunity to review Bruce's
> recommendation, and the documentation provided by the Rasdaman community.
>
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the nomination Bruce.
>>
>> As this list sees such low traffic/participation we have struggled to
>> reach quorum. I would like to keep this motion open for two weeks (10
>> business days) to allow members to review and vote.
>> --
>> Jody
>>
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 10:25 PM, Bruce Bannerman <
>> bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Project:                    Rasdaman
>>>
>>> Project Contact:       Peter Baumann
>>>
>>> Project Mentor:        Bruce Bannerman
>>>
>>>
>>> Recommendation:   Rasdaman to Graduate from OSGeo Incubation
>>>
>>>
>>> Incubation Checklist:  http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Comments:
>>>
>>> I have been monitoring and participating in the Rasdaman Community
>>> developer and user email lists for over four years. I plan to continue to
>>> participate within the community.
>>>
>>> It has been pleasing to see how the community has evolved over this time
>>> to develop effective, open and robust processes.
>>>
>>> I recommend to other FOSS4G communities to review what has been done, as
>>> you may well find that Rasdaman offers a compelling solution for the
>>> management of multi-dimensional array or gridded data that your project may
>>> be able to capitalise on.
>>>
>>> A summary of community activity may be found at:
>>> https://www.openhub.net/p/rasdaman
>>>
>>> Key project members are active within both OSGeo and the OGC.
>>>
>>> Within the OGC they have successfully guided a range of standards to
>>> support mutltidimensional array (gridded) data which have culminated
>>> (currently) in Web Coverage Service version 2.0 and a suite of extensions,
>>> see: http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wcs
>>>
>>> The project's principal, Professor Peter Baumann was also recently
>>> awarded OGC's prestigious Kenneth D Gardels award for his contributions to
>>> OGC.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> After having participated within the community for four years and having
>>> reviewed their OSGeo Project Graduation Checklist, I believe that Rasdaman
>>> Community have fulfilled the requirements of OSGeo Incubation and are
>>> eligible to graduate as an OSGeo Project.
>>>
>>>
>>> The only reservation that I have is over the dual licensing model that
>>> is used by the sponsoring company, Rasdaman GmbH. See:
>>> http://www.rasdaman.com/Product/commercial+free.php
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> There are two versions: Community (GPL and LGPL) and Enterprise (free
>>> from GPL constraints).
>>>
>>> The main difference between the two versions is summarised at:
>>> http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/Features
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This dual licensing may create a problem for the Rasdaman Community in
>>> the future should Rasdaman GmbH decide to sell its stake in the Rasdaman
>>> Enterprise version of the software. We have already seen a similar
>>> situation arise after the sale of MySQL which was similarly licensed.
>>>
>>> However as the community edition of the software is released under open
>>> source licenses, I expect that the main impact would be to the continuity
>>> of the Rasdaman Community in its current form. In the event of a sale, we
>>> may see the software forked, as happened with MySQL.
>>>
>>> For consideration and vote.
>>>
>>> Bruce
>>>
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>>
>>
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