[Incubator] gvSIG project graduation - motion

[Jody Garnett]

+1 thanks for all the hard work

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Jody Garnett

On 27 October 2015 at 11:26, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
wrote:

> I also believe that gvSIG is ready to graduate (from reviewing the
> checklist at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Incubation_Checklist). Can
> you please update the motion to include the name of the Project Officer
> from gvSIG (who reports to the OSGeo board)?  Thanks.
>
> +1
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> -jeff
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> On 2015-10-27 1:53 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>
>> Hi incubation committee,
>> With the latest updates to gvSIG's docs about decision making [1]
>> updated, I believe gvSIG is ready for graduation, as requested by
>> Dimitris (OSGeo graduation mentor) below.
>>
>> I propose that gvSIG is officially passes the OSGeo Graduation process
>> and is accepted as an OSGeo project into graduation.
>> +1 Cameron
>>
>> [1]
>>
>> http://docs.gvsig.org/plone/projects/gvsig-desktop/docs/about-technical-decisions/
>>
>>
>> On 27/10/2015 2:50 am, Dimitris Kotzinos wrote:
>>
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I think that this is a good time for me as the mentor of the gvSIG
>>> project to recap the discussion in an effort to move things forward.
>>> Before that I would like to thank all the members of the committee for
>>> the highly constructive comments and the members of the gvSIG Community
>>> (especially Alvaro and Manuel that were the voices) for the very prompt
>>> and also constructive responses that show a great level of dedication in
>>> the graduation process.
>>> So I feel that the gvSIG community is demonstrating also through the
>>> graduation process its strength and commitment. I think that there were
>>> not really severe pending issues that would prohibit the project from
>>> graduating, while various comments - like the management process and the
>>> TSC functioning - demonstrated that on the one hand there is always room
>>> for improvement and on the other hand the community has already strong
>>> processes in place. We might not all agree 100% of all the processes but
>>> in my review of those (and I had long discussions with the gvSIG people
>>> before suggesting the project for graduation) I find that the processes
>>> are institutionalized and observed with a professional quality. The
>>> gvSIG community offers the unique experience for an OSGEO project to be
>>> managed by a legal entity. Moreover, the gvSIG community is healthy and
>>> spans 4 continents and carries information in different languages and in
>>> different places. I suspect that graduation gave them a good incentive
>>> to clarify and update their documented functions.
>>>
>>> So since we started the graduation process back in July (almost now 3
>>> months ago) I would like to ask teh Committee members to try to honor
>>> their request that we have some results shortly enough, in time for
>>> their next gvSIG Conference. Personally I do not see any blocking factor
>>> but if it is let's try to communicate it to them as fast as possible.
>>> So I would like to kindly ask Jody, as the chair, that if he feels that
>>> there are no blockong issues to move the vote forward.
>>>
>>> Again from my side I am available to facilitate the process as much,
>>> although as you saw so far I am letting the community deal with all
>>> requests posted here.
>>> So please as a Committee let's follow up on this.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Dimitris
>>>
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