[Gvsig_english] FOSSGIS 2008 in Freiburg /Germany

[Wolfgang Qual]

Hello Jorge,
thanks for your reply. I am not a specialist, but a read-only svn could (maybe) be the first step towards that direction without having to fear that there is too much confusion. Sorry for being that impatient, but could you tell us, what "midterm" means? 
I heard of potential programmers who are really willing to contribute, but who are not able to do so because of the current situation. Nevertheless, I m sure that the gvSIG-team took the right line with the decision to become part of the osgeo. FOSSGIS projects will become more sustainable and more powerful with that foundation as the basis.

Regards,
Wolfgang

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 14:16:38 +0200
> Von: "Jorge Sanz" <jsanz at prodevelop.es>
> An: "Users and Developers mailing list" <gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es>
> Betreff: RE: [Gvsig_english] FOSSGIS 2008 in Freiburg /Germany

> Hi Wolfgang
> 
> Your comments are more than welcomed, as always.
> 
> > -----Mensaje original-----
> > De: gvsig_internacional-bounces at runas.cap.gva.es
> [mailto:gvsig_internacional-
> > bounces at runas.cap.gva.es] En nombre de Wolfgang Qual
> > Enviado el: viernes, 04 de abril de 2008 10:46
> > Para: gvsig_internacional at runas.cap.gva.es
> > Asunto: [Gvsig_english] FOSSGIS 2008 in Freiburg /Germany
> > 
> > Dear list,
> > just some short remarks on the FOSSGIS-Conference that took place the
> last days
> > in Freiburg/Germany (for details see --> http://www.fossgis.de). The
> conference
> > was very intersting: many new and thrilling projects were presented -
> FOSSGIS
> > becomes more and more interesting and important. I visited the
> sextante-workshop
> > and I have to say that I am really impressed by it's functionality. Many
> thanks
> > to Victor!
> > 
> > Regarding core-gvSIG: the project was mentioned very often, as
> organisations and
> > smaller offices are looking for a substitute of proprietary GIS-software
> and the
> > bundle of functionalities of gvSIG is very big. People really like the
> programme,
> > as it is very easy to handle.
> > This is one side.
> 
> Really pleased to listen that, SEXTANTE and gvSIG are growing fast and
> it's encouraging to see how many people is looking what we are doing.
> 
> > 
> > On the other side, people ask more and more about the status of gvSIG's
> way to
> > become an osgeo-project. Are there any news about the incubation status
> of the
> > project (--> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GvSIG_Incubation_Status)?
> > Especially, people asked:
> > * what about a public SVN/CVS-repository?
> > * When will this repository be available? And:
> > * How can developers contribute (self-developed code/functions) to
> gvSIG?
> >   - When will it be possible for external developers to write extensions
> and
> > other contributions for this great project?
> > Today, the source code of gvSIG is available for download, but it is so
> important
> > to open it more to the public (by creating a svn-repository). Everyone
> is
> > yearning to see those things happen.
> > Maybe we can start a discussion on this. The FOSSGIS clearly showed the
> > importance of these issues.
> > 
> 
> About the SVN, and in my opinion, I think we will have a public svn
> repository on midterm, but obviously I can't give dates. We need to assure that
> we (the gvSIG team) have the proper infrastructures to open the svn's and to
> don't stop the full-time developers working. It's so important that we
> have to do that carefully and well planned. I must say that we have that in
> mind for many time and we want to do it, but step by step.
> 
> It has been always the aim of the project (and maybe it differentiates it
> from other FOSS projects) to have first a wide community of users, and give
> them all the tools they need (like these mailing lists, tutorials and user
> docs) and after that we knew that the developers would arrive as it's
> happening.
> 
> With the opening of the developers docs section on the new website (which
> we need to translate into English, I know) we are just giving a very
> valuable for the developers. Moreover, wanting to become a full graduated project
> in OSGeo shows the intention of opening the project to the community is in
> our minds.
> 
> Developers can participate sending bugs and patches to this list and they
> are always welcomed and very appreciated.
> 
> We are working now to offer a public repository of contributed extensions
> on the downloads area of the new website. This will act as a public catalog
> of official and un-official contributions not only for extensions but also
> for example for catalogs of north arrows (like the one recently included
> in the 1.1.2 release) sets of icons, whatever.
> 
> I hope we will have this catalog soon, in fact the infrastructure to
> provide it is being tested right now.
> 
> Bes regards and again, thanks for your comments!!!
> --
> Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas
> Ingeniero en Geodesia y Cartografía
> Prodevelop S.L. - Valencia - España
> Tlf.:  96.351.06.12 - Fax:   96.351.09.68 
> jsanz[en]prodevelop[punto]es
> http://www.prodevelop.es
> 
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