I'm also wondering about the "weights" that different kind of community members can have into the management process.<br>Could you explain us better, what's the "contract" between the Association, its memeber and the TSC? I mean beyond the CLA.<br>
I suppose the Association is also meant to create a kind of lobby (in a neutral meaning), to help companies to create e commercial and technical network. In the long term, isn't there the risk to loose a bit of democracy in the project choices (from the logo design, to a patch contribution)? <br>
<br>I understand that a big project needs fundings to be mantained, and I agree that a business model is needed for it. Anyway, what will really keep gvSIG from lossing "open sourceness" is the ability to give the same voice to a big company member and the "normal" community user... This is a challenge, I know, and there are no magic rules to do it. I'm ready to try iand partecipate. As a normal user ;)<br>
<br>giovanni<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/7/1 Wolfgang Qual <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Wolfgang.Qual@gmx.net">Wolfgang.Qual@gmx.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Dear Fran,<br>
<div class="im"><br>
"... but at least, the fork<br>
will help to clarify many things arround the project, and will make us<br>
better. "<br>
<br>
</div>I guess this is really necessary. I will keep on asking these naive<br>
questions. But I think that there are quite some more who do not understand<br>
this structure. If the paying members of the association keep the project<br>
alive: do they control the development more than normal users (I guess so)?<br>
Some things need to be explained better: I remember discussions about the<br>
SVN one or two years ago. Not only reading access was requested, but also<br>
the possibility to contribute to the programme via SVN. Wasn't this one<br>
criteria for gvsig to become an osgeo-project (btw, what is the status at<br>
the moment)? Who is currently developing gvSIG (some time ago, there were<br>
two companies, many developers. But today?)? It seems to be not that easy to<br>
contribute to the project (as an "external" developer) - true? Many<br>
questions, I just led my mind wander...<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Wolfgang<br>
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