As for human resources... How many humans are involved in the following JUMP projects? * JUMP (http://www.vividsolutions.com/JUMP/) * Open Jump http://jump-pilot.sourceforge.net/ * jump Pilot http://jump-pilot.sourceforge.net/ (already merged?) * Dee Jump https://wiki.deegree.org/deegreeWiki/deeJUMP * Kosmo http://www.saig.es/en/kosmo.php * Sky Jump http://skyjumpgis.org/ * Pirol Jump http://www.al.fh-osnabrueck.de/jump-download.html (internationalization opportunity for JUMP) * JTS (topology) http://sourceforge.net/projects/jts-topo-suite/ * JCS (conflation) http://www.vividsolutions.com/JCS/
So assuming that there would be at least one person per project (on average) there is a good core of people. It took me and a few other people a couple of months to run a open and transparent process to invite nominees for the GRASS PSC. We had to approach some of the key players individualy to address some of their concernes and encourage them in the process. In the end most of the key players that were not advocates of joining OSGEO did make an effort as not to stone wall the process. I do not know of anyone who left the GRASS project due to OSGEO membership. Is someone wants to start the process I can help them along the way for getting started. After that I can pass along some contacts from other PSC (project Steering Commitees) members from other OSGEO processes. The formal requirements. According to http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/application.html the above human resource survey would give you the answer to number 14. Number 18, might be interesting to explore... But I would assume the OSGEO resources would suffice for hosting. Of the 22 questions they require for the questionaire I don't see any show stoppers. Number 13 (source code audit), this is either tedious, or use a comercial solution to vet the source code.. Not sure on cost, but a couple of the large backers (PIROL, Government agencies, large contractors) might be able ot combine forces to foot the bill. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Stefan Steiniger > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 15:14 > To: JUMP Users Discussion > Cc: List for discussion of JPP development and use.; > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [jump-users] JUMP as an OSGEO project > > Hei David, > > I think Landon answered the question already sufficiently. > > From my perspective as Co-Project leader and Co-Maintainer: > - I would like to see that OJ is an OSGEO project, but > - We simply lack any human resources to fulfill the formal > requirements :( > > I may note, that more or less all projects that are OSGEO > projects have a professional background (i.e. a company > and/or a full-time maintainer that earns money with the > software/support) while we are just a bunch of volunteers > with some company support that is died to specific projects > they can acquire (e.g. WFS plugin, Print plugin,...). This > also prevents us from setting up any detailed development > plans and we do not even have the human resources to set-up > and maintain a proper webpage (running instead a wiki). > > so... would be nice to, but... > > Stefan > > Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > > David, > > > > We have a new user list for OpenJUMP: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > We are trying to migrate our users to this new list. > > > > Some of the requirements for an OSGeo project our outlines here: > > > > http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/principles.html > > > > I've been reluctant to push OpenJUMP as an OSGeo project > (although it > > is something I would like to see) because some of the > requirements rub > > against the grain of our current programmer community. To become an > > OSGeo project you really need to adopt more formal governance > > procedures and policies. OpenJUMP has a rather informal programming > > community, and it seems there has been some pushback when I have > > suggested more formal policies in the past. > > > > Myabe we have evolved beyond this stage, but I'm still not sure. I > > think OpenJUMP would get a lot of publicity as an OSGeo > project, but > > I'm not sure if it is currently worth enforcing a rigid > structure on > > our contributin programmers and users. > > > > I do try to actively participate in OSGeo as a member of > the OpenJUMP community. > > > > I hope this answers some of your questions. > > > > The Sunburned Surveyor > > > > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:32 AM, Sampson, David > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hey folks, > >> > >> What is preventing JUMP from getting into the OSGEO Foundation? > >> Would this not be a good thing? > >> > >> Could this maybe be the catalyst to merging all the JUMP variants > >> back to one? > >> > >> Why would the JUMP community not want to enter OSGEO incubation? > >> > >> > >> Just thought I'd poke and prod. > >> > >> > >> Cheers > >> _______________________________________________ > >> jump-users mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > jump-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users > > > > > _______________________________________________ > jump-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. 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