[Incubator] MobilityDB as a OSGeo Community Project

[Mahmoud SAKR]

Great, thanks for confirming. We will wait for further feedback then.

Some mistake at my side changed the title of the previous message to "Open
Data Cube...". Sorry for this mixing. I correct it here.


On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 6:36 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a few comments inline:
>
>>         We ask that the project demonstrate collaboration, perhaps with a
>> history of bug report or pull requests
>>
>>    - Both in github and in OSGeo website, we show the team of
>>       contributors, and the steering committee members. But I got to say that we
>>       are just starting in this respect. There are currently few external
>>       collaborators. Most of the development is still done by the core team. We
>>       are however open for collaboration, and we hope that becoming an OSGeo
>>       community project will bring more collaboration. We need to give time to
>>       the community to join the project and start collaborating.
>>
>> And that is fine, this is one reason why we start slow with a
> CONTRIBUTING.md file, and the PRs and notes you provided below are great.
>
> I also got a chance 1st hand to see your group join the Bolsena 2020 code
> sprint :)
>
> aside: It can be quite a big step for some organizations to think through
> how to accept outside contributions, and notice they are no longer the sole
> "owner" of a codebase. Indeed many groups just use an open source license
> to publish because they can never get legal approval to work with others.
>
> Please consider this message as an *Application of MobilityDB for OSGeo
>> Community Project*.
>>
>
> Great, I appreciate your work thus far. It will take me some time to
> double check and make a motion (so if any other committee member wants to
> have a go please step up).
>
>>
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