Stefan, I sincerely hope you will be able to continue to make time for the project, but everyone eventually moves on. I know the OpenJump community would miss your contribution and leadership, however, I'm sure that everyone will join me in wishing you the best in whatever your career holds for you, even if it means that you won't be able to contribute to OJ.
On another note, I hope that the introduction of SkyJUMP will not play a part in any decision that you might make. It certainly wasn't my intent to steal any of the spotlight from OpenJump. SkyJUMP is simply my attempt at making our code base available to a wider audience of developers and users. The decision to not internationalize SkyJUMP is based on the fact that the requirement conflicts with our funding line, and the fact that I still consider OpenJump to be the definitive international version of JUMP. However, I can't base SkyJUMP on OpenJump, because, like Vividsolutions, our project requires that we maintain configuration management control. I hope that everyone understands the fine line that we have to walk in order to participate in an open source project while using defense department funds. There are certainly a lot of exciting developments happening in the JUMP family of open source GIS lately. It is somewhat analogous to the Linux distro situation. On one hand, it is confusing to the user base that now has basically too many choices, but in a period of experimentation, it is a natural development. In the long run, standards will emerge. There always seem to be a good number of developers using OpenJump, perhaps it is time for a few more of you to step up and take a more active role in the project. If any of you are government contractors, like myself, I would welcome your assistance on the SkyJUMP project, otherwise I would suggest you devote your attention to keeping the OpenJump project alive, since it remains the best vehicle of JUMP collaboration. regards, Larry Becker On 2/8/07, Stefan Steiniger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this was intended to be on the end of the last email.. but it does not > belong to jump-user list, > > thus here it is: > ------ > PS: to make a further note: my personal problem is that functionallity > of the other projects is ahead compared to OJ and I personally don't > find the necessary free time (sometimes also don't want to find = > prefering a social beer :o) to check all and integrate the common-sense > stuff (remember i need to work on my thesis). I will leave Zurich > probably in Oktober going somewhere else in the World (Postdoc > hopefully) and then it is not sure if I will find even time to stay on > the project as active member. > ----- > stefan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > -- http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
