[Incubator] Fwd: gvSIG project graduation - motion

Tom Kralidis tomkralidis at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 05:20:20 PDT 2015


+1

..Tom

>
> On 29/10/15 10:14, Jeroen Ticheler wrote:
>> Dear gvSIG community,
>> +1 from me for incubating gvSIG.
>> It has been a long process to which I was able to contribute a little bit 
>> at the start. I'm very happy to see the process has now come to a 
>> successful end! Congratulations and welcome as an incubated OSGeo project! 
>> gvSIG is a real community project with lots of great functionality and 
>> great people dedicating effort to it.
>> Cheers,
>> Jeroen
>> 
>> Op 28 okt. 2015 om 23:46 heeft "bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>" <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>> het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>>> +1
>>> 
>>> Congratulations!
>>> 
>>> Bruce
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> 
>>>> From: Incubator <incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
>>>> <mailto:incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>> on behalf of Jody Garnett 
>>>> <jody.garnett at gmail.com <mailto:jody.garnett at gmail.com>>
>>>> Date: Wednesday, 28 October 2015 14:57
>>>> To: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com 
>>>> <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
>>>> Cc: Incubator <Incubator at lists.osgeo.org 
>>>> <mailto:Incubator at lists.osgeo.org>>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Incubator] gvSIG project graduation - motion
>>>>
>>>>     +1 thanks for all the hard work
>>>>
>>>>     --
>>>>     Jody Garnett
>>>>
>>>>     On 27 October 2015 at 11:26, Jeff McKenna
>>>>     <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>>>>     <mailto: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
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>         -jeff
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>         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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