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

Wed May 4 14:12:39 PDT 2016

-1

Rationale:
1. Governance should be reworded and say something like ~ "chair of the
PSC has 1.5 votes in case of a tie when PSC has an even number of members".

2. Individual's names should be removed from the PSC governance document
which should be neutral. Names belong in the copyright text.

After these changes I am happy to support the graduation.

Have fun,
Arnulf

On 04.05.2016 00:44, Bruce Bannerman 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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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>
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