Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-27 Thread Jachym Cepicky
Hi, I was thinking the same about UbuntuGIS, count me in. Jachym P.S. Thank you all for this positive feedback in the discussion Dne 25.9.2013 15:54, Daniel Morissette napsal(a): FYI I talked with Alan yesterday about setting up a PSC for UbuntuGIS to increase this project's bus number.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-25 Thread Jo Cook
The newest version of Portable GIS doesn't require quite so many admin privileges, but I've also slimmed it down dramatically so it fits on a smaller USB stick, so it contains a lot less software (no gvsig, no mysql etc). It is used extensively for training courses in the UK, without too many

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-25 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Folks, I have initiated an RFC for a project management committee for OSGeo4W. I'd encourage everyone interested in participating to joint the osgeo4w-dev mailing list and to continue detailed discussion there. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeo4w-dev I think this list

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-25 Thread Daniel Morissette
FYI I talked with Alan yesterday about setting up a PSC for UbuntuGIS to increase this project's bus number. Let's see what OSGeo4W does, and UbuntuGIS will likely adopt a similar approach. I agree with those who wrote that we should aim to share as much as possible between the various

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-25 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi, On Wed, 25. Sep 2013 at 06:43:21 -0700, Frank Warmerdam wrote: I have initiated an RFC for a project management committee for OSGeo4W. Thanks. I'd encourage everyone interested in participating to joint the osgeo4w-dev mailing list and to continue detailed discussion there.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-25 Thread Tamas Szekeres
Frank, The RFC http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/rfc1_pmc looks pretty good, thanks for putting that together. Once the PSC is formed, I'm keen on writing a second one where we could start thinking about the primary objectives and requirements of the system we should realize, I think we all have

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-25 Thread Frank Warmerdam
Tamas, I agree with you, Daniel and Jurgen that we would be focused on windows though I am optimistic that OSGeo4W could also be a source for those trying to make custom windows installers (ie. Portable GIS, what I used to do with FWTools and possibly even Jeff with MS4W). Once we have a PSC, we

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-25 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi, On Wed, 25. Sep 2013 at 15:36:17 -0700, Frank Warmerdam wrote: I agree with you, Daniel and Jurgen that we would be focused on windows though I am optimistic that OSGeo4W could also be a source for those trying to make custom windows installers (ie. Portable GIS, what I used to do with

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 24/09/2013 02:08, Angelos Tzotsos ha scritto: I am in favor of both OSGeoLive and OSGeo4W going through a few weeks incubation process. Hi all. Incubation is not an issue. The problem, IMHO, is to find a good and productive governance model.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-24 Thread Johan Van de Wauw
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Angelos Tzotsos gcpp.kal...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Daniel, I am in favor of both OSGeoLive and OSGeo4W going through a few weeks incubation process. Best, Angelos I'd like to add that I think both projects could be working together very closely. For me the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-23 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 22/09/2013 10:41, Daniel Morissette ha scritto: Personally I'd treat OSGeo4W as a software project, with a PSC, committers, etc. We should do the same with OSGeo-Live actually, take it out of the Marketing committee and treat it as a sofware

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-23 Thread Daniel Morissette
On 13-09-23 11:08 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi Daniel, I see two possibilities here: * osgeo4w is an official foundation project, and as such it does not need to apply for incubation (it would be circular reasoning); in this case the PSC should be appointed by the foundation, or * it is an

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-23 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
On 09/24/2013 02:57 AM, Daniel Morissette wrote: On 13-09-23 11:08 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi Daniel, I see two possibilities here: * osgeo4w is an official foundation project, and as such it does not need to apply for incubation (it would be circular reasoning); in this case the PSC should

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-22 Thread Daniel Morissette
On 13-09-22 3:44 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi all. I agree with Tamas: we first have an issue with governance; once this is solved, we can deal with tech issues. Anyone a suggestion to move forward? To me, the first candidates that come to mind are Frank, Tamas, and Juergen: anyone else? Board,