MapServer Foundation - Open Letter

[Daniel Morissette]

Bill Binko wrote:
> 
> I was surprised to read that Frank and Dan were both involved in moving 
> _towards_ the Mapserver Enterprise naming.  It is one of very few mistakes 
> I've seen from them, and I suppose they were due: however, it is a 
> mistake, nonetheless.  The good news is that it is a fixable mistake.
> 

I may have suggested it in the first place, but more in a kind of 
brainstorming email to show the concept of having "MapServer 
<some_name_here>" type of names for each of the two server packages 
(which I still believe is a good idea BTW). I won't repeat the name that 
I had suggested in that first example for the UMN MapServer here because 
that would make my case even worse. Let's just say that I quickly got 
shut down by the rest of the group.  ;)

But anyway, the key is that we have talked about lots of possible ways 
to name things (we probably went full circle a couple of times), at the 
end of the whole process I was not very comfortable with the 
"Enterprise" qualifier since it's not a name... but once Frank pointed 
out to me that we could not dictate the other project's name I gave up 
in the interest of moving forward since there was so much else to do to 
get the open letter out ASAP and start getting some real feedback from 
this group.

Now that's done, I recognize that suggesting and accepting the 
Enterprise qualifier was a mistake and is likely the source of many of 
the passionate reactions that we're getting. But what's been done is 
done, it was done in good faith and we cannot undo it, so let's see how 
we can fix the naming thing to move forward.

BTW, I am happy to finally see the dust settle and some comments like 
yours and Puneet's that are more balanced and are talking about how to 
move forward instead of focusing on how things were done before Monday.

Daniel
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  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
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