[Incubator] motion: Accept rasdaman into the OSGeo Community program

[Jody Garnett]

I can answer that, the "osgeo community" program was set up in part based
on the experience of rasderman (an excellent open source project that has a
different governance model than we require for our osgeo projects (in part
because osgeo projects are setup as a committee and need to be governed as
such).

The second factor going into "osgeo community" was a direction from Venka
that we should have some place for "smaller" and "innovative" projects
(both of which are not a good fit to operate as an osgeo committee). Our
graduation requirements are all about stability and addressing risk and
provide a stable/trusted experience for users. As an example a project such
as pygeoapi is in an innovation phase, rapidly changing as it experiments
with ideas for the ogcapi specifications as they are being developed.
Stability would be a liability rather than an advantage.
--
Jody Garnett


On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 00:42, Dimitris Kotzinos <kotzino at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> if my memory serves me well (not certain anymore :-)), rasdaman had
> applied some years ago to graduate as an OSGEO project and when
> discussions produced a lot of heated arguments and disagreements, the
> project withdrew from the OSGEO family of projects.
> What I would like to inquire is whether things have changed and now we
> have some guarantees that the project is interested to progress to
> graduation.
>
> Please note that this is a well-intended message: I would be very happy
> to have rasdaman back into OSGEO and to support it in any way possible;
> I consider it a well done project. But I would like to avoid the
> previous situation of just repeating itself.
>
> Thanks for your consideration,
> Best regards,
>
> Dimitris Kotzinos
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