Hey- GeoExt is a project that aims to provide an Ext based toolkit for developing applications with OpenLayers. The library will extend Ext widgets and data management classes with mapping functionality from OpenLayers.
The GeoExt project steering committee and existing users and developers are interested in assigning copyright for the GeoExt code base to the OSGeo foundation. For OSGeo to accept copyright, it would be ideal if an existing OSGeo project could participate in the governance of the GeoExt project. Our hope (as the GeoExt PSC) is that the OpenLayers PSC would accept this responsibility. Exactly what "participate in the governance" means is a little hard to nail down. I've put together a proposal with a bit more specific language: http://www.geoext.org/trac/geoext/wiki/governance I'd like to open discussion on this proposal and get a vote from the OpenLayers PSC some time next week. What this means for the OpenLayers PSC: The OpenLayers PSC requires that the GeoExt PSC provides evidence that GeoExt is following the criteria for becoming an OSGeo member project (as far as I can tell, this is best described here http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Labs#Criteria). In practice, this will mean that the OpenLayers PSC will request that the GeoExt PSC provide information on contributors and signed contributor license agreements, and that the GeoExt PSC maintains the "geospatial" nature of the project. Questions and feedback welcome. Tim -- Tim Schaub OpenGeo - http://opengeo.org Expert service straight from the developers. _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list Dev@openlayers.org http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
