Hi All.<div><br></div><div>My 2 cents, very short because I'm in holidays....</div><div><br></div><div>1.- I think the Association is doing a very hard work in order to keep going gvSIG. All (I mean All) the people belonging the Assoc invest lots of time (some times paid, many times unpaid) in tasks for gvSIG project.</div>
<div>2.- There is a strong community behind gvSIG project. Thanks to all of them. From heart.</div><div>3.- The Assoc. is centered in helping to raise funds needed to improve gvSIG. Sometimes we need tasks to be done, and the tasks are too long or hard (no people can do in his own), so, the Assoc. is paying for those tasks to be done. For example, 1.12 release will come thanks to the Assoc. (It has given money to help Cartolab with all the tests).</div>
<div>4.- We can make things good or bad. Sometimes we did well, sometimes we do bad, we are humans. We try to do our best. We think there are valid rules, and if those rules are applied well, the product (gvSIG) will be better. We are trying to polish or relax some rules when we detect bad results.</div>
<div>5.- Some of us think this is the way to go. Some of us (people in CE project were part of the project in the past) thought the way to go is to fork.</div><div>6.- I think we should respect all decissions, and keep trying to collaborate (if possible). At least in technical part, we think there are good collaboration points in recent times (I will be sad if we cannot achieve this). Respect is important, both sides. </div>
<div>7.- CE is a fork, but many people is not aware of it. I think the name is not good for the community. In two senses:</div><div>a) There are people that are not aware of wich project is using, and we receive bugs or questions that are mixed.</div>
<div>b) CE means Community Edition. This name is used in other projects when there is a paid version and other free (as free beer), This is not true, both are free. And of course, gvSIG has a strong community behind, so, which Community is referring to...?</div>
<div><br></div><div>In the commercial part, I have heard there are problems to explain to many clients. It will be easy with different names, to show there are different projects.</div><div><br></div><div>Just a final thought: When we think in Software Libre, there are people thinking in lots of developers, working by heart (unpaid). This is not true most of the time. Lots of projects are maintained from a group of developers (paid by companies) supporting the project, and earning money by his work. I prefer this model, I like to work in SL full time.</div>
<div>And I think the companies and administrations using SL will be more confident knowing there is a good support (wich means bussiness).</div><div>This is the model the Assoc. is defending. Our company is paying 8% of all projects to Assoc., in order to keep the project strong, and to help those unpleasant tasks done (hard testing, releasing a new version, meetings, promotion, etc).</div>
<div>This model may or may not be wrong, but I think right now gvSIG is alive, so... my respects to the people who has thought the model, and has spent many nights worrying about that.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards, and interesting thread.... although a bit long, isn't it? ;-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Fran.</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">2012/8/3 Fernando González <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fergonco@gmail.com" target="_blank">fergonco@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">> Can I invite you a geobeer on the next Geoinquietos Valencia meeting as<br>
> a compensation? :-)<br>
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</div>Yeah for sure. But it will be me who'll invite you, for my continuous<br>
absences and lack of commitment lately ;)<br>
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Indeed I was not offended, but I wanted to state the fact that gvSIG<br>
CE is adding efforts. At least, Jose and Ben are working very hard and<br>
having a lot of success with gvSIG related projects. They are raising<br>
funding and investing it in the improvement of both gvSIG and gvSIG<br>
CE.<br>
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