[MetaCRS] question on incubation / community / and branding

[Even Rouault]

On mercredi 2 août 2017 10:21:08 CEST Jody Garnett wrote:
> Good morning list:
> 
> MetaCRS is listed as being an "Incubating Project" on osgeo.org.
> 
> For the website redesign we are focused on grouping projects into OSGeo
> Community and OSGeo Project categories.
> 
> MetaCRS is currently in incubation, we have an open question if an osgeo
> logo is still useful? Does the MetaCRS mailing list have any wishes here?
> 
> For logos please see: https://github.com/OSGeo/osgeo/tree/master/incubation
> 
> Because MetaCRS is a collection of sub projects I wanted to ask if any of
> the subprojects would like to join OSGeo as a Community Project? There are
> a couple of requirements (like being open source) that I would be happy to
> discuss.

Jody,

I don't have any official authority regarding MetaCRS but I think we had some related 
discussions in past months, and I believe the outcome (or at least it is my opinion :-)) was that 
MetaCRS was too "meta" (both for outsiders and insiders)... to be a OSGeo project. For 
example there is a PSC, but when a motion is raised about a project (let's say to approve a 
release), probably only the PSC member of the said project has an informed opinion about 
the motion. MetaCRS mostly exists as a mailing list to share ideas / questions / collaboration 
about CRS issues. From a branding perspective, the name of each subproject is certainly more 
known to more people than the MetaCRS name.

I'm pretty sure that proj.4 meet all requirements to qualify as a Community Project : open 
source, geo and participatory.

Even

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