[Incubator] Motion: Rasdaman ready to graduate from OSGeo Incubation
Peter Baumann
p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
Fri Apr 29 01:38:45 PDT 2016
Bruce-
thanks a lot for driving this forward. Looking forward to advancing.
-Peter
On 04/29/2016 01:13 AM, Bruce Bannerman 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 <mailto: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
> <https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21forum/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
> <mailto: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
> <http://www.faculty.jacobs-university.de/pbaumann>
> mail: p.baumann at jacobs-university.de
> <mailto:p.baumann at jacobs-university.de>
> tel: +49-421-200-3178 <tel:%2B49-421-200-3178>, fax: +49-421-200-493178
> <tel:%2B49-421-200-493178>
> - Executive Director, rasdaman GmbH Bremen (HRB 26793)
> www.rasdaman.com <http://www.rasdaman.com>, mail: baumann at rasdaman.com
> <mailto:baumann at rasdaman.com>
> tel: 0800-rasdaman, fax: 0800-rasdafax, mobile: +49-173-5837882
> <tel:%2B49-173-5837882>
> "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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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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