[Incubator] Recommend Graduation of Rasdaman from OSGeo Incubation
Peter Baumann
p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
Fri Oct 31 07:14:17 PDT 2014
Listers-
this last remark of Bruce highlights the issue:
> 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.
Same here - due to manifold obligations I cannot always respond immediately, in
particular on issues requiring specific attention.
So, instead of
> - putting a limit on the response time.
let me suggest to jointly move forward.
Thanks for your patience and understanding.
-Peter
On 10/30/2014 07:51 AM, Bruce Bannerman 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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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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