Jody Garnett wrote: > Another thing that came up in conversation last week was - why be > involved in OSGEO? After all so far it has mostly been requests for > work, on some problems we were comfortable ignoring previously... > > Here are some of the answers: > - source of funding for the "grunt work" we have real with (releases, > user docs), this is the reason I bothered to do the providence review > - we need to set up ownership on our codebase, seems to just be a legal > matter we can sort out via a letter from each developer > - collaboration with other projects, both to cut RnD costs and to share > in interoperability testing > - shared marketing and branding, less exciting to us as we are a library > > We can see some of these results coming out meeting other communities > face to face at FOSS4G, the goal will be to get the same kind of > benefits out of OSGEO involvement.
Jody, Note that "source of funding" isn't a sure thing. In the current OSGeo sponsorship scheme this would devolve to getting GeoTools directed "project sponsorships" from organizations that depend on it or what to be supportive. But OSGeo does provide a mechanism to collect and manage that money if you can find sponsors. The aspect that you haven't mentioned directly is to encourage adoption and use of GeoTools by organizations that might have been uncomfortable with the unclear accountability of the project. The pain around code copyright, and reviewing is aimed at two things. Helping to protect those who work on and use the project, and to reduce the fear, uncertainty and doubt of possible new adopters. For me, this additional credibility / comfort was a big objective for me having GDAL/OGR incubate. I want to drive maximum adoption, and for some organizations they want to see something more accountable than a guy in the bush. Best regards, -- ---------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, [EMAIL PROTECTED] light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Geotools-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
