[Incubator] Recommend Graduation of Rasdaman from OSGeo Incubation

[Jody Garnett]

Tell you what bruce, lets table this motion and continue with discussion
(addressing the points raised).

If you are on the road either Cameron or myself can re-introduce a "motion"
when these questions are answered.
--
Jody



Jody Garnett

On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Bruce Bannerman <
bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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