[Qgis-psc] Migrating to free software

[Tim Sutton]

Hi All

It’s a pity I was not allowed to join the meeting yesterday, anyway, I have added my votes in the meeting document. If I had been there, I would have suggested changing the wording as per my comments below:


Paolo suggests free software should be the first choice. We should choose proprietary alternatives only when it is proven that free software fails to provide a reasonable solution. The PSC should vote in case a proprietary solution is suggested.
+1 Jürgen
+1 Paolo
+1 Andreas
+1 Marco
+1 Anita
-1 Tim - Prefer that we vote on any solution (Proprietary or FOSS and choose it based on merrits rather than its license).


Paolo I think you are jumping the gun writing stuff in NextCloud below - we should approach things in an orderly and democratic fashion:

1 someone proposes a new platform e.g. next cloud for docs
2 they propose a migration strategy for existing content that needs to move to that platform
3 they propose who will do the migration
4 they propose what if any funding implications there are
5 they propose a timeline for the migration
6 they describe how the infrastructure is managed if it is self hosted (e.g. do we have backups, who has admin, who fixes issues)
7 we vote on it having been given reasonable time to consider the above information and test out the alternative
8 assuming we vote to agree with the proposal 
9 we then start using the new platform

I don’t think it is fair or reasonable to just skip 1-8 and start on 9.

Regards

Tim


> On 8 Apr 2020, at 08:50, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> following the resolution of yesterday, I set up a shared dir in:
> https://nextcloud.osgeo.org/
> and I wrote a document on the proprietary software we currently use, and
> the possible alternatives.
> Comments are most welcome.
> Please note: there is a native free client for all major OSs, so this
> should be fast and easy to use.
> Cheers.
> -- 
> Paolo Cavallini
> www.faunalia.eu: training, support, development on QGIS, PostGIS and more
> QGIS.ORG Chair
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Tim Sutton
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