[Incubator] OSGeo4W project page on the new website

Mon Jan 22 16:14:05 PST 2018

Okay, for being listed on the website we really want to only check those
three things, answer when ready.

--
Jody Garnett

On 22 January 2018 at 15:39, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de> wrote:

> Dear Jody,
>
> I wait to answer your questions about a successful OSGeo community effort
> for several years now until other incubation committee members will rise up
> their questions too.
>
> As being a volunteering effort by the OSGeo community to bring the OSGeo
> stack by a smooth way to a really wide user community on a specific
> operating system, it should be respected that already quite amount of work
> has be done for several years now to keep the OSGeo4W environment running.
>
> Thus the overhead to be listed on the OSGeo website should be the lowest
> as possible. So let's wait what other incubation committee members have to
> say.
>
> Kind regards
> Helmut
>
> OSGeo charter member
> --
> Am 22.01.18, 23:52, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> schrieb:
>
>> Quick question - where is the codebase for OSGeo4W, we have three things
>> we are looking to check....
>>
>> Okay this might be it: https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/browser
>>
>> 1) geospatial - yes :)
>>
>> 2) open source - not sure I could find a specific license file in the
>> codebase
>>
>> 3) open to contributions
>>
>> Found a list of contributors with a invitation to take part
>> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/browser/trunk/setup/CONTRIBUTORS but it
>> appears to be for cygwin not OSGeo4W
>>
>> Now we do not have to answer these questions from the codebase, so let’s
>> tey the wiki.
>>
>> Q: Open Source?
>> Looking around for license information found https://trac.osgeo.org/
>> osgeo4w/wiki/AboutLicenses - this describes the contents, but does not
>> seem to describe the open source license used on OSGeo4W itself....
>>
>> Q: Open to Contirbutions?
>>
>> The wiki has a couple sections for developers, GSOC ideas
>>
>>
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>> On 22 January 2018 at 02:44, Helmut Kudrnovsky <hellik at web.de> wrote:
>>
>>> [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/553]:
>>> [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-January/037046.html]:
>>> ----------------------
>>> From discuss email:
>>>
>>>     Hi community,
>>>
>>>     as we've seen in the Google Code‑in contest and students' feedback,
>>> MS
>>> windows is still an important operating system within the user base of
>>> the
>>> OSGeo stack.
>>>
>>>     Beside the windows standalone installers of e.g. QGIS or winGRASS
>>> (both
>>> are based upon OSGeo4W), the OSGeo4W framework itself is a very important
>>> platform to deliver the OSGeo stack to the users of this operating
>>> system.
>>>
>>>     As an example, when I'm helping winGRASS users on the GRASS user ML,
>>> I'm
>>> often refering to use OSGeo4W-winGRASS in order to check if the
>>> issue/problem is also there.
>>>
>>>     Furthermore, OSGeo4W is also an important testing platform as it's
>>> possible to use/test the latest greatest dailys of e.g. QGIS3 or
>>> GRASS7.4svn
>>> on the windows operating system.
>>>
>>>     Another example, University of Vienna deploys OSGeo4W to all its
>>> public
>>> students PCs.
>>>
>>>     Searching [1] and screening the new website, there seems to be no
>>> information about/no link to OSGeo4W [2].
>>>
>>>     Is this intentional? Just overseen?
>>>
>>>     OSGeo will loose new and interested users of the OSGeo software stack
>>> when no one can find the nice framework for the still most used operating
>>> system.
>>>
>>>     Kind regards Helmut
>>>
>>>
>>> OSGeo charter member
>>>
>>> [1] https://www.osgeo.org/search/OSGeo4W
>>> [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/
>>>
>>> ----
>>>
>>> To request "editor" permission (for creating a project page) please
>>> speak to
>>> the incubation committee as outlined here:
>>> http://osgeo.org/committees/incubation
>>>
>>> Would love to see OSGeo4W listed on the new website, or better yet as a
>>> community project.
>>> ---------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-January/037049.html]:
>>> ---------------------
>>> Hi Jody,
>>>
>>> On Sat, 20. Jan 2018 at 21:15:27 -0800, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>> > Helmut do you have any contact details for the OSGeo4W project?
>>>
>>> See http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w
>>>
>>>
>>> Jürgen
>>> ---------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-January/037054.html]:
>>> ---------------------
>>> Jody,
>>>
>>> the OSGeo4W framework exits since more than 10 years now; the first
>>> entry in
>>> the OSGeo4W-ML dates back to November 2007.
>>>
>>> AFAIK there are few volunteers nowadays [1] to keep the framework
>>> running;
>>> mainly Jürgen F. and Martin L.; I maintain a small package to
>>> easily bridge the OSGeo4W framework and R (www.r-project.org) and help
>>> in
>>> winGRASS if needed; and some other few volunteers helps from time to
>>> time.
>>>
>>> > Please ask the OSGeo4W team to contact the incubation
>>> > committee[https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/] (for
>>> edit
>>> > access to create a project page).
>>>
>>> So, I may ask the incubation committee for edit access to create a
>>> project
>>> page.
>>>
>>> Helmut
>>>
>>> [1] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/osgeo4w-dev/2007-
>>> November/date.html
>>> [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/CoreTeam
>>> ---------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> [https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2018-January/037064.html]:
>>> ---------------------
>>> Although it would be great to be a commuity project - the project team
>>> does
>>> need to ask - for more information see
>>> http://osgeo.org/committees/incubation
>>>
>>> Specifically OSGeo community project are recognized as part of the
>>> foundation; we would like to treat all projects equally (even those that
>>> have been around since 2007).
>>> ---------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> [https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/553#comment:4]
>>> ---------------------
>>> Replying to jive:
>>>
>>>     Nice, I saw it there based on the email thread - do you mind joining
>>> the
>>> incubation committee mailing list
>>> (https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/incubator) and asking to be
>>> listed on the website.
>>>
>>>     We have a very quick spot check to confirm each project is
>>> geospatial,
>>> open source and accepts contributions.
>>>
>>> I will do; OSGeo4W is a OSGeo community initiative since more than 10
>>> years
>>> and well documented in an OSGeo trac instance.
>>> ---------------------
>>>
>>>
>>> herewith, for the sake of completeness,  I ask on behalf of OSGeo4W, an
>>> OSGeo community initiative since more than 10 years, to be listed on the
>>> new
>>> OSGeo website.
>>>
>>>
>>> [https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/]:
>>> ---------------------
>>> How to list your project on the OSGeo website?
>>>
>>> The OSGeo website is proud to promote a wide range of geospatial open
>>> source
>>> software.
>>>
>>> Project requirements:
>>>
>>>     geospatial
>>>     open source license
>>>     accepts contributions
>>> ---------------------
>>>
>>> OSGeo4W provides the OSGeo stack (e.g. proj4, GDAL, GRASS GIS, QGIS etc)
>>> in
>>> an easy way for the MS windows operating system.
>>>
>>> Thus OSGeo4W is geospatial.
>>>
>>> The OSGeo stack and the OSGeo4W installer are open source.
>>>
>>> The upstream OSGeo stack (e.g. proj4, GDAL, GRASS GIS, QGIS etc) accepts
>>> contributions and also OSGeo4W installer.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Helmut
>>> OSGeo charter member
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -----
>>> best regards
>>> Helmut
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>>
>> --
>> --
>> Jody Garnett
>>
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