[Incubator] motion: Portable GIS as an OSGeo community project

Sat Nov 25 14:03:33 PST 2017

Thanks Jo, I think in the future I may hold these votes open just for a
week :P

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Jody Garnett

On 26 November 2017 at 06:04, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Since there have been a few questions about what Portable GIS is, in
> comparison to OSGeo4W and OSGeo Live, I thought it might be worth me
> posting a link to this talk: https://archaeogeek.github.io/agi-cymru-
> portablegis a colleague of mine delivered it on my behalf recently. It's
> just a lighthearted introduction to it, but might answer some of the
> questions people have. I completely forgot about it, or I would have posted
> it sooner!
>
> Thanks
>
> Jo
>
> On Sun, Nov 19, 2017 at 1:34 AM, Cameron Shorter <
> cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> Steve, Portable GIS and OSGeo-Live are both looking to address a similar
>> use case of helping introduce new users to Open Source GIS.
>>
>> Portable GIS is built on Windows. OSGeo-Live is built on Linux. There is
>> certainly the opportunity to collaborate between projects, and there was
>> some discussion ~ August/September 2017 about such collaboration on this
>> list. [Short answer: good idea, might happen, needs resourcing]
>>
>>
>>
>> On 14/11/17 8:08 am, Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul) wrote:
>>
>> I looked through the list of items included, and it’s a sub-set of
>> things, mostly OSGeo based.
>>
>> https://portablegis.xyz/post/about/
>>
>>
>> bobb
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2017, at 2:47 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <steve.lime at state.mn.us>
>> wrote:
>>
>> +1 – any relationship to LiveDVD or OSGeo4W at all?
>>
>> *From:* Incubator [mailto:incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>> <incubator-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] *On Behalf Of *Jody Garnett
>> *Sent:* Monday, November 13, 2017 2:12 AM
>> *To:* incubator at lists.osgeo.org
>> *Subject:* [Incubator] motion: Portable GIS as an OSGeo community project
>>
>> Jo Cook has put forward the Portable GIS project (
>> https://gitlab.com/archaeogeek/portable-gis) for consideration as a
>> community project, in discussion on our email list she has revised the
>> project to meet our requirements
>> <https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects#Joining_OSGeo>.
>>
>>    1. Selection of an open source license if the project hasn't already
>>    done so.
>>    2. Checking your source code headers and history
>>    3. Setup appropriate LICENSE, CONTRIBUTING and README files (for
>>    github projects)
>>
>> With this in mind I am pleased to make the following motion:
>>
>>
>> Accept Portable GIS as an OSGeo community project
>>
>>
>> This motion is held open for two week, closing November 27th, requiring
>> 50% quorum, from the following committee members:
>>
>>    - Bruce Bannerman
>>    - Bob (CI-StPaul) Basques
>>    - Landon Blake
>>    - Howard Butler
>>    - Arnulf Christl
>>    - Jody Garnett +1 initial motion
>>    - Dimitris Kotzinos
>>    - Tom Kralidis
>>    - Julien-Samuel Lacroix
>>    - Mark Lucas
>>    - Steve Lime
>>    - Daniel Morissette
>>    - Markus Schneider
>>    - Cameron Shorter
>>    - Norman Vine
>>    - Frank Warmerdam
>>
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