Hi Jeff and others, does it make any sense to have a space for pre-incubation projects (or OSGeo friendly projects) that OSGeo promote even if not still officially part of the family but recognized as interesting?
For example I have a project on an OGC service (istSOS) that has a very limited community but is willing to become a day OSGeo project... other projects may have the same feeling, maybe a pre-incubation box could worth? Maxi On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Jeff McKenna <[email protected] > wrote: > On 2013-05-21 11:55 AM, Tim Bowden wrote: > > > > Interesting discussion. This reminds me of when GPSbabel came knocking > > on OSGeo's door looking for a home and we didn't know how to respond; > > imho OSGeo dropped the ball on that one (maybe because it came a bit > > early in the story for us). For me that was one of those future > > signposts in time events. > > > > I think OSGeo does need to find a way to be more inclusive of 'outside' > > projects that reflects OSGeo's leadership in the FOSS spatial realm. I > > don't think that should be at the expense of the 'foundation' role for > > OSGeo projects, but there is a very real challenge there if OSGeo wants > > to rise to the challenge of being the dominant player in FOSS spatial. > > I fear the alternative is to one day wake up and discover OSGeo is 'just > > another foundation', not because anyone else has taken up the wider FOSS > > spatial advocacy role, but because we've shied away from it. > > > > Hi Tim, > > The role of advocacy and leadership in FOSS spatial is exactly what I > believe OSGeo provides. I believe our many advocates around the world > provide this on a daily basis to their local communities. You are > correct that we (OSGeo) will have upcoming challenges to be more > inclusive of projects/communities (as Adrian, or someone, recently > pointed out to me, in 2006 the OSGeo infrastructure made sense and was > very attractive to new projects, but is it so attractive now in 2013? > Tough question to answer, but one we must face and deal with together). > > -jeff > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Massimiliano Cannata* Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica Responsabile settore Geomatica Istituto scienze della Terra Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana Campus Trevano, CH - 6952 Canobbio Tel. +41 (0)58 666 62 14**** Fax +41 (0)58 666 62 09**** [email protected] *www.supsi.ch/ist*
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