[Incubator] Motion: Rasdaman ready to graduate from OSGeo Incubation
Cameron Shorter
cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Wed May 4 02:42:53 PDT 2016
-1 on rasdaman incubation until the Governance question is resolved,
which is a bigger question than just rasdaman, and I'm expecting will
take a number of weeks to resolve. Cameron
On 4/05/2016 2:36 pm, Jody Garnett wrote:
> -1 but in the PSC sense where I will work to find a solution.
>
> We the incubation cannot relax this core tenant of our foundation (it
> is in our objectives as an organization). But I will ask the board to
> consider the idea in the next board meeting.
>
> Can I kindly suggest that the project request to be listed as a
> community project while this is looked at.
>
> I am a bit disappointed to be at this impasse, but thank everyone
> involved for the clear and polite communication.
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 6:45 PM Bruce Bannerman
> <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com
> <mailto:bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> Bruce
>
>
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 8:44 AM, Bruce Bannerman
> <bruce.bannerman.osgeo at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
> <mailto: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
> <mailto:Incubator at lists.osgeo.org>" <incubator at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:incubator at lists.osgeo.org>>
> Cc: "<rasdaman-users at googlegroups.com
> <mailto:rasdaman-users at googlegroups.com>>"
> <rasdaman-users at googlegroups.com
> <mailto:rasdaman-users at googlegroups.com>>,
> "<rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com
> <mailto:rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com>>"
> <rasdaman-dev at googlegroups.com
> <mailto: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
> <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:
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