Ok, so that sounds like we have everyone +1 except Richard as +0? I've
provisionally told them to add us, since it seems like everyone is for
it. I just want to be sure we have an archived record of the vote, so
speak now or forever hold your peace: GeoTools is joining the Open
Source GeoSpatial Foundation.
As for DavidZ's concerns, I actually think that overall we'll benefit
from the 'marketing'. There will be a lot more interest in general, and
anyone wanting a toolkit and java will naturally look to geotools.
One other thought at the meeting was to allow 'sponsers' to choose
projects that they want their money to go to. This would be for the
unglamourous maintenance work (that geotools desperately needs). 30%
goes to the foundation, the rest goes to the project (or something along
those lines). What we could do is specify that any GeoServer or Udig
sponsership (if one or both goes in the foundation) has some percentage
going to GeoTools directly. Indeed in the case of GeoServer I think
we'd be fine with 50% or more, as most of our code lies in GeoTools...
But yes, all these issues are up for debate, remember the foundation is
just being formed. And they actively want Java developers. So we can
have a say in how things are done.
I'm happy to nominate anyone in GeoTools for 'membership' in the
foundation, we're looking for about 27 more members I think. Let me
know if you'd be interested... It'll be a bit of time commitment,
though just being a 'member' should not be much at all, but it'd be
hoped that people would join committees that actually do things, like
get the website going, figure out conferences, education materials, ect.
The plan is to really grow this foundation thing, so if successful at
all being a 'member' will likely look quite good on your resume, and it
should be an exciting process of figuring out what we want this new
thing to actually be.
best regards,
Chris
Richard Gould wrote:
Jody has pointed out that I'm the only PMC not to vote on the matter,
and I realize it is a little late, but I'm mostly indifferent on the
topic. I am interested in it, but I don't understand the issues well
enough to make a positive or negative choice, so I am +0.
Cheers,
Richard
David Zwiers wrote:
My only concern has todo with the marketing aspect, In particular the
constraints on the 'look and feel' portion. I'm a little concerned
that we could get overshaddowed by the actual applications, resulting
in people loosing sight of the independant java GIS library behind the
scenes. I'm thinking of Apache, where there are a number of
under-publisized libraries overshadowed by the plugins to Tomcat.
From what I can tell so far, I think Geotools would benefit (so a +1)
but I think we may want to push back on the look and feel prior to
joining.
David
On 2/5/06, *Martin Desruisseaux* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I'm of course +1 too.
Martin.
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