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

[Bruce Bannerman]

+1

Bruce


On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Bruce Bannerman <
bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Incubation Committee,
>
> We have two days left to vote on this motion.
>
> There has been sufficient discussion to thrash out the issues.
>
> Given the nature of the vote and the six years of effort that the Rasdaman
> Community have put into meeting OSGeo Incubation requirements, I would like
> to see a strong indication of Committee Member's views on this issue.
>
> I personally don't believe that there is room for Committee Members to sit
> on the fence and not make a call on this.
>
> Remember, we are making a recommendation to the OSGeo Board.
>
> The Board will have the final decision.
>
> We have the following response after twelve days of voting:
>
>    - Bruce Bannerman
>    - Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
>    - Landon Blake
>    - Howard Butler
>    - Arnulf Christl
>    - Jody Garnett
>    - Dimitris Kotzinos
>    - Tom Kralidis
>    - Julien-Samuel Lacroix
>    - Mark Lucas
>    - Steve Lime
>    - Daniel Morissette
>    - Markus Schneider
>    - Cameron Shorter
>    - Jeroen Ticheler
>    - Norman Vine
>    - Frank Warmerdam
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Bruce Bannerman
> OSGeo Mentor for Rasdaman
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Bruce Bannerman <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 9:11 AM
> Subject: Motion: Rasdaman ready to graduate from OSGeo Incubation
> To: "Incubator at lists.osgeo.org" <incubator at lists.osgeo.org>
> Cc: "<rasdaman-users at googlegroups.com>" <rasdaman-users at googlegroups.com>,
> "<rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com>" <rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com>
>
>
> 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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