Awesome, great to see geos heading in this direction. ..Tom
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Sean Gillies > Sent: 03 October, 2007 12:01 PM > To: GEOS Development List > Subject: Re: [geos-devel] GEOS -> New Home / New Leadership > > Sounds good to me, Paul. > > Sean > > Paul Ramsey wrote: > > All, > > > > At FOSS4G, I had a long discussion with folks from Safe, > Ingres, and > > Autodesk about the future of GEOS. The bottom line is that they are > > all interested in investing more in extending and moving > GEOS forwards. > > > > In order to make those investments more effective and > future-proof and > > give the companies a voice in the project going forward, I am > > proposing a number of measures: > > > > (a) At a technical level, having a Trac infrastructure for bugs and > > wiki notes and code browsing would be nice. I can set that > up myself, > > but OSGeo already has that infrastructure. So I propose > migrating the > > code to the OSGeo infrastructure, if possible. > > (b) At a steering level, taking the Project Steering > Committee (PSC) > > role out of the explicit control of a single maintainer > (historically > > funded by Refractions) and into a full PSC. > > (c) A and B above are in aid of an eventual move into OSGeo > Incubation > > and full OSGeo project membership. We know these will have > to be done > > to enter OSGeo, so might as well start now. > > > > I would like to get the PSC boot-strapped with representatives from > > the existing user/developer base of GEOS. > > > > May I propose: > > > > - Martin Davis, Refractions, who has an understanding of the > > architecture > > - Representatives of Autodesk and Safe, who already have > "skin in the > > game" and are gearing up for more development > > - Howard Butler, who can navigate our passage into the OSGeo > > infrastructure world, and provide a viewpoint from build > maintenance > > and script bindings > > > > This PSC can serve for six months, adding whomever it sees fit, and > > then be re-formed based on the conditions in March 2008. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > geos-devel mailing list > geos-devel@geos.refractions.net > http://geos.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel > _______________________________________________ geos-devel mailing list geos-devel@geos.refractions.net http://geos.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel
