Re: [DebianGIS] Open Source Geospatial Foundation and Debian GIS?
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 05:16:00PM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> On 2/8/06, Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> wrote:
> >
> > So, the Open Source Geospatial Foundation is being organized. Check
> > <URL:http://industry.slashgeo.org/industry/06/02/06/213205.shtml> for
> > info on that topic. Should the Debian GIS subproject join forces with
> > them?
>
> Petter,
>
> There was some discussion at the Chicago meeting of the
> need to provide "ready to use" binaries to folks on different
> platforms, and I did suggest that OSGeo should try and
> cooperate with efforts such as the DebianGIS group, as well
> as other similar efforts for other packaging systems (ie. RPM,
> Fink, RPM, various win32).
>
> One possibility would be for DebianGIS to become a
> foundation project. But at the least I would like some
> sort of formal liaison between the us such that the appropriate
> OSGeo projects would appear in DebianGIS. That would
> mean pointers to DebianGIS on the foundation web site,
> and raising the profile of DebianGIS with some of the
> upstream maintainers.
>
I was evaluating the possibility to advance myself for a membership
candidature on behalf of the DebianGis project (it is an ad hominem
candidature currently). The dead-line is quite narrow (9am at GMT+8 on
next Thursday). If you all (or almost) think it is a good idea,
I could proceed with that.
My own idea is both improving debian-gis image and visibility (and so
find more men power), also by generally trying to involve upstreams in the distribution level
of QA and getting a reciprocal understanding of the needs and policy
on both sides (upstream and maintainers). That at least for Debian
(and its forks/derivations). At the same time, we represent one of the
most wide community of developers and users (we are more than 120 subscribers here only)
so our voice could be of interest for the foundation.
--
Francesco P. Lovergine
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