[Incubator] motion : accept vMap as an OSGeo Comunity Project

[Jo Cook]

Hi Armand,

Welcome! I've taken a look at the gitlab repository at
https://gitlab.veremes.net/open-source/vmap and checked our guidelines at
https://www.osgeo.org/about/committees/incubation/.

The guidelines for community projects are:

   - geospatial
   - open source license, with source code check of headers
   - accepts contributions

It's definitely geospatial, so that ticks off the first item in the list.
The license is an unusual one to me, and I had to google it, which led me
to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CeCILL. People with more experience that I
might have a different view on this, but I wonder if you should state
somewhere the difference between your license and BSD/MIT?

Also, I did a random check of some code in a few folders and I couldn't
find many files with license headers. Is that something you could look at?

Finally contributions- I can see from the repository contributors graph
that you have commits from a number of people, which is good, but including
a contributors.md file to help guide new people wanting to commit would be
helpful. This might be the best place to add some explanation about your
license.

All the best

Jo


On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 4:21 PM Armand Bahi <armand.bahi at veremes.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Few months ago on the 13th "Jornadas de SIG libre" in Girona (Spain) we've
> make a presentation of our WebGIS vMap (
> https://vimeo.com/showcase/6126225/video/347719352).
>
> vMap is an OpenSource WebGIS tool based on PostgreSQL / PostGIS, you can
> find more information on the documentation
> https://vmap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/presentation/presentation/
>
> At the end of the presentation María Arias de Reyna from OSGeo Spain asked
> me why do not make vMap as an OSGeo Community Project and I told her it
> would be an honor to do it. So we start working on traducing the software
> and documentation and searching other companies to share the project
> management.
>
> Today translation is almost done and a company that work mostly on 3D data
> using lidar and drones wants to join the team.
>
> We are really interested on working with OSGeo so I would be glad to have
> your opinion.
> Best regards,
> --
> [image: Veremes] <http://www.veremes.com>
> Armand Bahi
> Software development engineer / vMap project manager
> armand.bahi at veremes.com
> +33 4 68 38 65 27 <+33468386527>
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