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* Frank Warmerdam - [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL/OGR], Canada. | * Frank Warmerdam - [http://www.gdal.org/ GDAL/OGR], Canada. | ||
| − | + | Quatre membres viendront s'ajouter au Conseil d'Administration et seront sélectionnés par la communauté. | |
| − | OSGF | + | L'OSGF tire son inspiration pour sa gouvernance de plusieurs éléments de la [http://www.apache.org/ Apache Foundation], incluant un membership composé d'individus provenant des projects fondateurs. Le membership initial consiste de cinq membres du C.A. auquel on ajoute les 16 autres participants de la réunion de démarrage. Un objectif de 45 membres est établi à travers un processus de candidature publique au sein de la communauté du logiciel libre géospatial large. Chaque personne élue doit être reconnue par ses contributions en termes de logiciel, documentation, traduction ou autre. De la liste des candidatures, 24 membres seront élus par les membres en poste. |
The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards. | The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the [http://www.opensource.org Open Source Initiative (OSI)]. The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards. | ||
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Press release
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
An umbrella for community-led GIS and mapping projects
La Open Source Geospatial Foundation (??) a été crée pour supporter et développer des logiciels géospatial (??) à code libre de haute qualité. L'objectif de la Foundation est d'encourager l'utilisation et le développement collaboratif de projets "community-led"(XX). Sa structure et sa vision ont été définis lors d'une réunion à Chicago.
Au cours de cette réunion, un Conseil d'Administration intérimaire a été formé. Cinq gestionnaires de projets on été élu à partir d'une liste plus longue. Ils viennent d'Amérique du Nord et d'Europe et représentent diverses communautés autour de différentes technologies (C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, Javascript, etc.):
- Arnulf Christl - Mapbender, CCGIS, Allemagne;
- Chris Holmes - GeoServer/GeoTools, The Open Planning Project, États-Unis;
- Gary Lang - MapGuide, Autodesk, États-Unis;
- Markus Neteler - GRASS, Istituto Trentino Di Cultura, Italie;
- Frank Warmerdam - GDAL/OGR, Canada.
Quatre membres viendront s'ajouter au Conseil d'Administration et seront sélectionnés par la communauté.
L'OSGF tire son inspiration pour sa gouvernance de plusieurs éléments de la Apache Foundation, incluant un membership composé d'individus provenant des projects fondateurs. Le membership initial consiste de cinq membres du C.A. auquel on ajoute les 16 autres participants de la réunion de démarrage. Un objectif de 45 membres est établi à travers un processus de candidature publique au sein de la communauté du logiciel libre géospatial large. Chaque personne élue doit être reconnue par ses contributions en termes de logiciel, documentation, traduction ou autre. De la liste des candidatures, 24 membres seront élus par les membres en poste.
The foundation will only accept projects released under Open Source licenses certified by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The long term goal is to encourage licenses that allow the different projects to work better together and permit for code exchange among the foundation projects. Means of avoiding the inclusion of proprietary or patented code will be established. Foundation projects are focused on interoperability, with one another at the library level, and with other proprietary and open source projects through the use of open standards.
While an initial set of projects was proposed as founding projects, several projects such as MapServer and GeoTools are currently seeking for a decision within their communities weather to join. Initial OSGF projects are Mapbender, MapBuilder, MapGuide, GDAL/OGR, GRASS, and OSSIM.
The foundation will also be pursuing goals beyond software development, such as promoting more open access to government produced spatial data. Access under reasonable conditions to geospatial data is a major problem outside of Northern America.
Thanks to the use of Internet Relay Chat (IRC) during the meeting, discussions were open to peers outside of the meeting room. The consensus reached at the Chicago meeting paves the way to establish a powerful, inclusive foundation.