[Incubator] ntrip-catalog as community project.

Tue Jan 27 09:03:38 PST 2026

 We can continue discussion on the ticket, usually it takes a bit of time
to hunt down the README, the LICENSE and the user docs and so on.

For example your project indicates you have no headers, so this is a chance
to do open source advocacy and ask you *why* you have no headers, to make
sure you are doing so on purpose, and to ask where your source code comes
from, what do you do when new people contribute etc...

   1. Be geospaital:
      1. https://github.com/Pix4D/ntrip-catalog/blob/master/README.md
      2. No I cannot include on the website, we give each project team
      permission to manage their own page, as you are responsible for
keep it up
      to date. What is your OSGeo User ID? For more information see Add a
      Project
      <https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/add-a-project/>
      3. I could not find a user guide ... but I also have a question? Is
      this an open source project (that people would run themselves) or is it a
      public website (the code of which is open source for others to reference?)
      2. Have a free license:
      1. https://github.com/Pix4D/ntrip-catalog/blob/master/LICENSE
      CC0 is a documentation license (for writing) rather than an open
      source license for code.
      CC0 is an alternative to citation for authors composing their own
      written works, it gives them permission to remix the writing or data into
      their own creation, granting much the same permissions open source
      developers enjoy when remixing code beyond its original intent.
      2. Many open source licenses require headers be applied. If you wish
      to select an open source license this will be one of the steps to check
      when adopting it.
   3. Welcome contributions
      1.
      https://github.com/Pix4D/ntrip-catalog/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING_GUIDE.md
      1. This covers some of the mechanics of contributing, but is weak on
         the legal aspect - who "owns" the resulting work?
         Do you have shared ownership, or require a contribution license
         agreement?
      2. Collaboration
         1. https://github.com/Pix4D/ntrip-catalog/pulls?q=is%3Apr
         Key think I am looking for is if this has folks from more than one
         organization (demonstrate collaboration); but the fact that
it is public is
         great (open to collaboration)
         https://github.com/Pix4D/ntrip-catalog/issues?q=is%3Aissue
         3.
      https://github.com/Pix4D/ntrip-catalog/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
      Nice work!

So based on the review there are some questions to answer? Some of which
are for you (do you want an open source license, or is this more of an open
data project?) and some of which are for OSGeo (do we want to offer a home
for open data projects, there used to be a committee for that but I am not
sure if it is active).
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Jody Garnett

On Jan 27, 2026 at 8:27:05 AM, Javier Jimenez Shaw <j1 at jimenezshaw.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jody
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 2026 at 17:01, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Javier,
>>
>> The committee has been looking at how to increase participation, and are
>> looking to moving some of this process form email to an issue tracker.
>>
> I am already subscribed to the gitea issue #3 . You can answer there if
> you want to.
>
>>
>> I totally appreciate that you have followed the checklist so I am going
>> to do my best to respond; it would help if you provided the links as I am
>> going to have to hunt that down.
>>
> Which links do you mean? Is there anything missing?
>
> Cheers
> Javier.
>
>> - -
>> Jody Garnett
>>
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2025 at 6:49:45 AM, Javier Jimenez Shaw via Incubator <
>> incubator at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear OSGeo
>>>
>>> We have an open source project, ntrip-catalog.org , that we would like
>>> to include as a "Community Project". The last Board meeting said that
>>> community projects can be hosted in the OSGeo GitHub organization.
>>>
>>> The repository is currently in https://github.com/pix4d/ntrip-catalog
>>>
>>> Attending to the requirements in
>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Community_Projects I think we fulfil
>>> all of them (except being on the osgeo website):
>>>
>>> Projects applying to the *OSGeo Community* program are asked to:
>>>
>>>    1. Be geospatial
>>>       - Confirm by checking README or project description
>>>          - :)
>>>       - project page on the osgeo website
>>>          - Could you include ntrip-catalog on the osgeo website?
>>>       - We ask projects have some user documentation, for example an
>>>       OSGeo Live quickstart
>>>          - The documentation is there. A final user can also check the
>>>          web search page.
>>>       2. Have a free license or an open source license.
>>>       - The license must be OSI approved
>>>          - CC0. It was a recommendation from OSGeo members.
>>>       - We ask that the project team check the file headers and double
>>>       check the license has been appropriately applied
>>>          - There are no headers.
>>>       3. Welcome participation and new contributors.
>>>       - We look for a clear contribution policy
>>>          - See the CONTRIBUTING_GUIDE.md
>>>       - We ask that the project demonstrate collaboration, perhaps with
>>>       a history of bug report or pull requests
>>>          - There are already external contributions in the commit
>>>          history and issues.
>>>       - Projects are required to have a code of conduct
>>>          - It is there.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you very much
>>>
>>> Javier Jimenez Shaw.
>>> OSGeo member 546
>>> https://www.osgeo.org/member/jimenezshaw/
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>>
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