[MetaCRS] question on incubation / community / and branding

[Jody Garnett]

MetaCRS could form as an initiative at OSGeo (specifically an initiative to
help projects work on interoperability around spatial reference systems).

I know we talked about reclassifying MetaCRS as a community project when
the concept was introduced last year ... but lacked sufficient guidance
from the MetaCRS team.

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Jody Garnett

On 2 August 2017 at 10:45, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:

> On mercredi 2 août 2017 10:21:08 CEST Jody Garnett wrote:
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> > Good morning list:
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> > MetaCRS is listed as being an "Incubating Project" on osgeo.org.
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> > For the website redesign we are focused on grouping projects into OSGeo
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> > Community and OSGeo Project categories.
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> > MetaCRS is currently in incubation, we have an open question if an osgeo
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> > logo is still useful? Does the MetaCRS mailing list have any wishes here?
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> > For logos please see: https://github.com/OSGeo/
> osgeo/tree/master/incubation
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> > Because MetaCRS is a collection of sub projects I wanted to ask if any of
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> > the subprojects would like to join OSGeo as a Community Project? There
> are
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> > a couple of requirements (like being open source) that I would be happy
> to
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> > discuss.
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> Jody,
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> 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.
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> I'm pretty sure that proj.4 meet all requirements to qualify as a
> Community Project : open source, geo and participatory.
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> Even
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