[Incubator] Recommend Graduation of Rasdaman from OSGeo Incubation

Fri Oct 31 07:20:27 PDT 2014

Hi Frank,

rasdaman community is a fully fledged Array DBMS, it can be and is used.

As discussed earlier in this context, we honestly don't know the number of
installations. At some time we were tempted to implemented an automatic
"rasdaman has been installed on X" mechanism in the code, but for the obvious
reasons we don't do that. We do know, though, _some_ installations of rasdaman
community, such as: British Geological Survey; EOX; NASA Ames. The secore
component of rasdaman is used by OGC as its official coordinate system resolver.

There is a common misconception that the rasdaman company might make undue use
of free contributions; as laid out on the Governance page, the converse is true:
the company regularly and substantially contributes open-source code. For
example, the company is partner in project PublicaMundi which is exclusively
devoted to open-source work. In fact, the company is the largest committer at
all, and of course we accept all code that adheres to the well-documented
quality regulations - see http://rasdaman.org/wiki/Governance .

HTH,
Peter

On 10/21/2014 01:30 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Bruce / Peter,
>
> I'm curious how widely used the community version of Rasdaman is?  I'm ok with
> dual licensing, but I want to know that the community version is useful, and
> used, and that folks who want to contribute new features to it (even though
> replicating enterprise features) are readily accepted.  The linked page does
> make the enterprise version sound a lot better which is ok as long as the
> community version is useful.  Any feedback on that would be helpful.
>
> Also, I hadn't realized this was intended as a motion since Motion did not
> appear in the title, or email text.  If it is an option motion for the
> incubation committee it is good to make it very clear. 
>
> Best regards,
> Frank
>
>
> 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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