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

[Jody Garnett]

Sorry Bruce, I have gotten stuck into foss4gna prep and have been unable to
catch up.

While I read your recommendation I am not quite sure what to make of the
project governance.

--
Jody Garnett

On 28 April 2016 at 16:13, Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello Colleagues,
>
> Can I please get some indication that this motion has been read, rather
> than stunned silence?
>
> It has now been over a week since I initiated this vote. I have not seen a
> single reply.
>
>
>
> @Jody,
>
> How long can a motion stay open before the vote is counted? I vaguely
> recall that it was two weeks.
>
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Bruce Bannerman <
> bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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
>> "Si forte in alienas manus oberraverit hec peregrina epistola incertis
>> ventis dimissa, sed Deo commendata, precamur ut ei reddatur cui soli
>> destinata, nec preripiat quisquam non sibi parata." (mail disclaimer, AD
>> 1083)
>>
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