[Aust-NZ] Re: Strategic Investment in Geonetwork Open Source (draft paper) -unclassified

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Hi Byron,
Let me add to that that what you call the FAO trunk actually is the  
OSGeo GeoNetwork opensource trunk. GeoNetwork opensource went through  
incubation at OSGeo and as such became an OSGeo project with a Project  
Steering Committee that has members from the community and not just FAo.
Ciao,
Jeroen

On Jun 19, 2008, at 9:20 PM, COCHRANE BYRON, MR wrote:

> Cameron,
>
> Thanks for this.  Very Helpful. I will take this with me to Wellington
> next week to the Geospatial summit where I am presenting on  
> GeoNetwork.
> Several stakeholders will be there - in particular, Brendon Whiteman  
> of
> the NZ Geospatial Office (counterpart to the OSDM).
>
> Just gave it a quick read. I will go through it more thoroughly soon.
> One general comment, there needs to be more distinction made between
> where you are talking about GeoNetwork Opensource trunk as held by
> Jeroen Ticheler at the FAO in Rome, and the Australian efforts.   
> Many of
> the issues you list, such as the beta status, only apply to the
> Australian efforts.  Jeroen's group have largely cleaned up their  
> act in
> regard to release schedules. (This particular issue is moot now anyway
> since the beta status has been removed. Congrats, Simon!) A clearer
> picture of relationship of our work in Australian/New Zealand  
> relates to
> FAO trunk needs to be made to remove confusion.
>
> Cheers,
> Byron