Live GIS Disc Press Release 75

Descoping OSGeo-Live for next 11.0 release

18 April 2017

For our next OSGeo-Live release, 11.0, we propose to de-scope what is included.

Factors leading to this suggestion include:

1. Some projects have dwindling communities and momentum.
2. Increased OSGeo-Live scope has increased our core maintenance and testing.
3. Reduced engagement from projects (partly due to less core time spent reaching out to projects)
4. Missing our first release milestone in 9 years.

We are faced with the choices of:

1. Reduce quality.
   • Not being considered.
2. Become more efficient:
   • Done already.
3. Increase volunteer engagement:
   • Volunteers always welcomed.
4. Find a sponsor to support core activities:
   • Would be awesome, but we're not counting on this.
5. Reduce scope:
   • This is our most viable option.

Projects being considered to be kept:

Projects being considered for retirement:

1. <project> : <reason> (including issue number if applicable)

Key Milestones

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... full schedule

About OSGeo-Live

OSGeo-live is a Lubuntu based distribution of Geospatial Open Source Software, available via a Live DVD, Virtual Machine and USB. You can use OSGeo-Live to try a wide variety of open source geospatial software without installing anything.