[Incubator] Motion: Rasdaman ready to graduate from OSGeo Incubation

[Bruce Bannerman]

Take 2

Dear Incubation Committee,

After a long six years of effort, I'd like to recommend that Rasdaman is
ready for graduation from the OSGeo Incubation process.

You will find the Incubation Checklist at:

http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist

I believe that the Rasdaman community have met our requirements to graduate
from incubation.

I have found the community to be robust and very active attracting
contributors from many corners of the globe.

The project is attracting quite a bit of interest, together with European
Union funding for additional development that appears to be going into the
open source version of the product.

I have also noted that Rasdaman Gmbh is also moving some of their
previously proprietary capability into the open source version.

Peter Bauman, the man behind Rasdaman is also making very significant and
noteworthy contributions to the world of open spatial standards through his
work within OGC and W3C Spatial Data on the Web Working Group. Rasdaman is
an OGC Reference implementation of several WCS related standards from
memory.



I do have a reservation though:

While I see that Rasdaman is meeting the requirements of the OSGeo
Incubation process, I do feel that it is not meeting the spirit of
Incubation.

As an example control of the project is still tightly controlled around
Rasdaman GMbh:

- Two of the three members of the Rasdaman PSC are members of Rasdaman Gmbh;
- Project technical design and strategic directions are tightly controlled
and do not appear to be openly discussed on public emailing lists. Things
'just happen'; and
- The Rasdaman-PSC email list contains no emails [1].

I do know of one or two attempts to try to get public discussion going
about strategic technical direction, however I did not see much activity
related to it. This is probably symptomatic of the lack of a serious
attempt at community consultation on strategic and technical design issues
to date.

My advice to the Rasdaman Community is that for you to truly thrive as an
open source community, you will need to look closely at this issue and
address it proactively. It is your project!

Bruce Bannerman
OSGeo Mentor for Rasdaman

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/rasdaman-psc




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The checklist (http://www.rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeoIncubationChecklist) seems
complete. The last communication from Bruce was also positive, but did not
elicit a response from this mailing list.

I recommend Bruce invite discussion/review of checklist and prep a
recommendation for graduation (if he is comfortable doing so at this time).

--
Jody Garnett

On 21 April 2016 at 00:55, Peter Baumann <p.baumann at jacobs-university.de>
wrote:
Dear all,

just a brief question, what are the plans about rasdaman incubation?
Last communication was 7 months ago, and this April we had our 6th
anniversary
of entering incubation.

thanks for sharing your thoughts,
Peter

--
Dr. Peter Baumann
 - Professor of Computer Science, Jacobs University Bremen
   www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann
   mail: p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
   tel: +49-421-200-3178, fax: +49-421-200-493178
 - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 26793)
   www.rasdaman.com, mail: baumann at rasdaman.com
   tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
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