[Zoo-discuss] Project funding

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your response.  Here are my comments:

- I would like to see more activity on the mailing list and Trac...you 
mention that there is lots of work going on by yourself, Gerald, and 
Venka, but I have no way of following this progress, if no one uses Trac 
and the mailing list.

- if we "sell it to French clients and others" how do we distribute 
these funds?  Are you talking about creating a new organization/company?

- my opinion is that we should make a kick-ass webGIS and sell it, 
through online services.  I think we need to focus on this right away 
(at at least agree to focus on something).  If we're not focused (Gerald 
can sell to his clients, PersonB to his clients, etc) then I won't be 
focused either.

- if our goal becomes to sell this service, what components of this is 
FOSS?  Which components are not FOSS?

Sorry for asking the hard questions.

-jeff





nicolas bozon wrote:
> Hi Jeff, Hi all
> 
> I totally agree with you that the ZOO project must provide some money to us
> 
> We already spend many time with Gerald and Venka on creating the ZOO 
> concept and developing the kernel (Gerald mainly coded the kernel) on 
> our spare time. Basics services will have to be developed by us and 
> others, if the ZOO tends to become community driven.
> 
> I'm in Japan now (on my univ funds + personal funds) to work on the 
> implementation of my phD model on-line using the ZOO WPS capabilities. 
> We are working on it with Gerald and Venka to create a specific ZOO 
> service. As gerald is coding,  my work mainly deals with creating the 
> user interface but also to work on design and communication for the 
> whole Project.
> 
> Our plan is to present a stable kernel with basics services (mainly 
> GDAL/OGR and PG) at FOSS4G this year. If people get interested in, we 
> think that we can find developers for other services implementation 
> (GRASS, Routing, GPS...).
> 
> Then, if the ZOO goes on well, we will be able to sell it to our french 
> clients and others, to get funds
> We also began with Gerald to ask for public fundings in our Region which 
> is really interested in cloud computing projects. We are still waiting 
> for an answer or meeting...
> 
> The main idea is to achieve our first goal, to make the project grow and 
> then to begin selling it
> We also thought already of an on-line WPS webGIS that users must pay for 
> an account to use advanced services
> 
> Let us know what are you thinking about our vision !
> Do you think about any other option to find some fundings to going on ?
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Nick
>
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