Great news and long deserved!
big cheer to the geoserver community and developers
Op 15 mrt. 2013 22:33 schreef "Justin Deoliveira" <[email protected]>
het volgende:
> Hey Andrea,
>
> I thought your cut was pretty good. Here is a slightly tweaked version, a
> little less verbose in some places. And afaik it is now incorrect to say
> "the reference implementation", but more "a reference implementation".
>
> --
> OSGeo is pleased to announce that the GeoServer project has graduated from
> incubation and is now a full fledged OSGeo project. Andrea Aime, a long
> time member of the GeoServer Project Steering Committee (PSC), has been
> appointed as project representative.
>
> GeoServer is an open source Java server that allows users to share and
> edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability GeoServer has always
> had a strong base in open standards and is a reference implementation of
> the OGC Web Feature and Web Coverage Services. It also supports other well
> known standards such as the Web Map and Web Processing services, in
> addition to various other non-OGC specific protocols.
>
> Graduating incubation includes fulfilling requirements for open community
> operation, a responsible project governance model, code provenance, and
> general good project operation. Graduation is the OSGeo seal of approval
> for a project and gives potential users and the community at large an added
> confidence in the viability and safety of the project.
> --
>
> And the quote:
>
> The GeoServer team is thrilled about OSGeo membership. Even though
> GeoServer has not been an official OSGeo project until now there have
> always been strong ties between the two communities with several of the
> GeoServer developers being involved with OSGeo as chapter members and
> active participants in various OSGeo conferences. As such we are very happy
> to now officially be part of OSGeo and a member of such an esteemed group
> of projects.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Jonathan Moules <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Congratulations!
>>
>> A couple of points if I may:
>> - Define PSC. I'm guessing its not "Project Star Chamber"; probably
>> "Project Steering Committee"?
>>
>> - When stating GeoServer is the reference implementation - might it be
>> worth specifying which versions of those protocols its the reference
>> implementation for? I.e. Wikipedia says "Rasdaman" is (candidate?)
>> reference implementation for WCS 2.x with GeoServer being for WCS 1.x.
>>
>> Again, congratulations.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On 15 March 2013 13:36, Andrea Aime <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I just had news that all the board member gave a positive vote for the
>>> GeoServer
>>> graduation, so first off, congratulations to everybody, and in
>>> particular to the
>>> team that did the provenance review during the australian sprint some
>>> time ago.
>>>
>>> Now, I've been asked to craft a message that OSGeo can quote in the
>>> official
>>> OSGeo announcement.
>>>
>>> Not sure what to say... some help needed.
>>>
>>> If we look at previous graduation announcement, the message might look
>>> like:
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> OSGeo is pleased to announce that the GeoServer project has graduated
>>> from the incubation process and is now a full fledged OSGeo project with
>>> Andrea Aime appointed as project representative (PSC Member, GeoServer).
>>>
>>> GeoServer is an open source software server written in Java that allows
>>> users to share and edit geospatial data. Designed for interoperability, it
>>> publishes data from any major spatial data source using open standards.
>>> Being a community-driven project, GeoServer is developed, tested, and
>>> supported by a diverse group of individuals and organizations from around
>>> the world.
>>> GeoServer is the reference implementation of the Open Geospatial
>>> Consortium (OGC) Web Feature Service (WFS) and Web Coverage Service (WCS)
>>> standards, as well as a high performance certified compliant Web Map
>>> Service (WMS), as well as an implementing Web Processing Service (WPS)
>>> service.
>>>
>>> Graduating incubation includes requirements for open community
>>> operation, a responsible project governance model, code provenance and
>>> license verification and general good project operation. Graduating
>>> incubation is the OSGeo seal of approval for a project and gives potential
>>> users of the project added confidence in the viability and safety of the
>>> project.
>>>
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> If instead they want some quote from us... maybe something like this?
>>>
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> The GeoServer PSC is thrilled about the OSGeo graduation. Even if
>>> GeoServer has not been an official
>>> OSGeo project so far, several of the GeoServer PSC has been long
>>> involved in OSGeo as chapter members,
>>> as active participants to the open source GIS conferences, and
>>> supportive of the OSGeo goals as a whole.
>>> As such we are very happy to official join the OSGeo community along
>>> with all the other project that managed
>>> to prove their openness and stability.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Meh.. yeah, not great... help? :)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Andrea
>>>
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