[Gvsig_english] Why gvSIG CE came about & CLA

[Francisco José Peñarrubia]

Good points, Giovanni.

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 ;-)

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.

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.

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).

About magic rules.... well, better explained in the post :-p

Have fun.

Fran.


El 01/07/2011 15:21, G. Allegri escribió:
> I'm also wondering about the "weights" that different kind of 
> community members can have into the management process.
> Could you explain us better, what's the "contract" between the 
> Association, its memeber and the TSC? I mean beyond the CLA.
> 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)?
>
> 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 ;)
>
> giovanni
>
> 2011/7/1 Wolfgang Qual <Wolfgang.Qual at gmx.net 
> <mailto:Wolfgang.Qual at gmx.net>>
>
>     Dear Fran,
>
>     "... but at least, the fork
>     will help to clarify many things arround the project, and will make us
>     better. "
>
>     I guess this is really necessary. I will keep on asking these naive
>     questions. But I think that there are quite some more who do not
>     understand
>     this structure. If the paying members of the association keep the
>     project
>     alive: do they control the development more than normal users (I
>     guess so)?
>     Some things need to be explained better: I remember discussions
>     about the
>     SVN one or two years ago. Not only reading access was requested,
>     but also
>     the possibility to contribute to the programme via SVN. Wasn't
>     this one
>     criteria for gvsig to become an osgeo-project (btw, what is the
>     status at
>     the moment)? Who is currently developing gvSIG (some time ago,
>     there were
>     two companies, many developers. But today?)? It seems to be not
>     that easy to
>     contribute to the project (as an "external" developer) - true? Many
>     questions, I just led my mind wander...
>
>     Best,
>     Wolfgang
>
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