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

[Landon Blake]

+1

On Nov 25, 2017 2:04 PM, "Jody Garnett" <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks Jo, I think in the future I may hold these votes open just for a
> week :P
>
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> Jody Garnett
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> 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.gith
>> ub.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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