[OSGeoLive] [Incubator] MobilityDB as a OSGeo Community Project

Mahmoud SAKR mahmoud.sakr at ulb.ac.be
Tue Sep 8 22:38:17 PDT 2020


Great, thanks for confirming. We will wait for further feedback then.

Some mistake at my side changed the title of the previous message to "Open
Data Cube...". Sorry for this mixing. I correct it here.


On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 6:36 AM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a few comments inline:
>
>>         We ask that the project demonstrate collaboration, perhaps with a
>> history of bug report or pull requests
>>
>>    - Both in github and in OSGeo website, we show the team of
>>       contributors, and the steering committee members. But I got to say that we
>>       are just starting in this respect. There are currently few external
>>       collaborators. Most of the development is still done by the core team. We
>>       are however open for collaboration, and we hope that becoming an OSGeo
>>       community project will bring more collaboration. We need to give time to
>>       the community to join the project and start collaborating.
>>
>> And that is fine, this is one reason why we start slow with a
> CONTRIBUTING.md file, and the PRs and notes you provided below are great.
>
> I also got a chance 1st hand to see your group join the Bolsena 2020 code
> sprint :)
>
> aside: It can be quite a big step for some organizations to think through
> how to accept outside contributions, and notice they are no longer the sole
> "owner" of a codebase. Indeed many groups just use an open source license
> to publish because they can never get legal approval to work with others.
>
> Please consider this message as an *Application of MobilityDB for OSGeo
>> Community Project*.
>>
>
> Great, I appreciate your work thus far. It will take me some time to
> double check and make a motion (so if any other committee member wants to
> have a go please step up).
>
>>
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