[frankie@debian.org: Re: [DebianGIS] Open Source Geospatial Foundation and Debian GIS?]
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From: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>
To: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam@pobox.com>
Cc: Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>
Subject: Re: [DebianGIS] Open Source Geospatial Foundation and Debian GIS?
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 08:40:43AM -0500, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Francesco Paolo Lovergine wrote:
> >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.
>
> Francesco,
>
> Note that there was a typo. Apparently PST is GMT-8, not GMT+8.
> Feel free to nominate yourself on behalf of the Debian GIS project.
> But whether or not you are selected for membership, that need not materially
> affect efforts to raise the profile of Debian GIS with the upstream
> developers
> through OSGeo.
>
> What I would like to suggest is that (in a few weeks) we establish a
> "binary distributions" working group at OSGeo. It would include one
> representative of each of the foundation projects suitable for inclusion
> in binary distributions, and one representative of each of the binary
> distribution project interested. This could be a venue for discussing
> things that the project folks can do to make things easy for binary
> packagers.
>
That seems definitively more interesting for the d-gis goals, indeed.
If others think d-gis involvement would be well positioned at this
level, I would avoid the previous step.
> I am also hoping at some point that OSGeo will "bless" some binary
> packagings,
> such as Debian GIS as being of high quality and recommended by the
> foundation
> to end users wanting to try stuff out. It seems to me that Debian GIS is
> well positioned for this.
>
That also seems reasonable.
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Francesco P. Lovergine
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