On 15/02/2012, at 11:05 AM, Andrew Ross wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I wanted to provide a quick update to keep in touch.
>
> First, a disclaimer that this post is mostly off-topic. If you're not
> interested in the potential for uDig to become an Eclipse project, nor
> the Location industry working group (IWG) at Eclipse, you should
> probably stop reading here and I apologize for disturbing you.
Um - Hi Andrew - I think we were waiting to hear back from you and your team? As I understand you were away Dec / Jan so I did not want to pester :-)
Jody,
Yes that's right. In addition to being away in December, my mandate has been to prioritize the
Long Term Support industry working group (IWG) before Location. It's developing nicely so I'm picking up on tasks for the Location IWG. I've been quietly recruiting companies and people who would be interested in Location as well. Thank you for joining the mailing list.
For Location, as per the Eclipse bylaws, we need permission to distribute software that's not EPL. Even if uDig were to re-license under the EPL (or dual-license EPL/LGPL), Geotools (which is LGPL) and other dependencies would still require permission. For this reason, we need the Location IWG. The Polarsys industry working group at Eclipse has set a successful precedent here.
Getting companies & interested people to join the Location IWG mailing list is something everyone can help with. Thank you kindly.
In terms of next steps and timing... we're aiming for a face to face meeting in May, likely at the Location Intelligence conference in Washington D.C. Between then and now, we home to prime the pump for discussion of initiatives and iterate a draft of the Location IWG charter.
From a uDig perspective, once the Location IWG is launched, and of course if we receive Refractions support on this, we can formally begin the proposal to take it to Eclipse. This feels like it'll happen around June/July timeframe. How does this work for you all?
> For those that are interested, the connection to uDig is the Location
> IWG will enable a good place to host location focused projects such as
> uDig. The IWG will have a distinct name/brand/logo/ and forge.
That sounds nifty.
> The IWG infrastructure is starting to come on-line. The IWG mailing list
> is now live in case you or someone you know might want to subscribe.
> Many discussions will be touch on business/product/marketing/strategy.
> Technology will focus on new and innovative projects, and ways to
> collaborate around commodity technology. The mailing list is here:
>
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/location-iwg
>
> Best regards,
Jody
