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Good points, Giovanni.<br>
<br>
That's the reason I want a calmed post from Gabriel Carrion or
Alvaro Anguix in gvSIG Blog, who will explain better than me the
pilosophy behind the Association. @Gabi, time to post and put here a
link ;-)<br>
<br>
In last email, I said there is no relation between Association and
TSC. You will be invited if people there think you deserve it, no
matter your company. So, you can talk with someone and say "Hello, I
think my contribution will be valuable for the project because....
(reasons), and they (we) will vote. The protocol is public, you can
find it int gvsig.org.<br>
<br>
As far as I know, the Association will make commercial (marketing),
contacts, project, and so on, but technical decissions are not its
duty. So, the community decides. About logo design, we have had a
public competition several weeks ago. About patches, it's open also.
you can register in OSOR, open a bug, and put a patch. Maintainers
and reviewers will (eventually) revise your patch, and it there are
no problems, put in SVN in order to test by the team test when a new
estabilization process begins.<br>
<br>
About big compaies and small companies in Association with the same
voice. Good point. The voice is the same, it doesn't matter if the
company is big or not. (Talking only about the marketing,
commercial, remember. Technically, no voice at all).<br>
<br>
About magic rules.... well, better explained in the post :-p<br>
<br>
Have fun.<br>
<br>
Fran.<br>
<br>
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El 01/07/2011 15:21, G. Allegri escribió:
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cite="mid:BANLkTik1i0qtu-wx4DHWpkNJfUODC3j1kg@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2011/7/1 Wolfgang Qual <span dir="ltr"><<a
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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>
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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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