Let me know where to send the olive oil ! Best of luck and best wishes,
Greg W. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Paul Ramsey Sent: Fri 10/5/2007 1:54 PM To: GEOS Development List Subject: Re: [geos-devel] GEOS -> New Home / New Leadership Not hearing any objections, let's proceed. In the event of PSC ties, disputes shall be settled with a bout of Greco-Roman Wrestling. Howard, can we work together to start the move to OSGeo infrastructure? P 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 > > -- Paul Ramsey Refractions Research http://www.refractions.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: 250-383-3022 Cell: 250-885-0632 _______________________________________________ geos-devel mailing list geos-devel@geos.refractions.net http://geos.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/geos-devel
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