[Gvsig_english] Call for Mac Community contributors.

[Manuel Madrid]

Hello all and sorry for crossposting.

As you all know one of the main benefits of FOSS projects is the
community participation. Community contributions make projects better
and greater, covering areas that otherwise they couldn’t achive. One of
these areas is multiple Operative System support.

Currently gvSIG officialy supports some GNU/Linux distributions and
Windows but thanks to Rafael Gaitán and the ai2 Institute of the
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia [1] (the gvSIG 3D extension team
[2]) there is for a while a gvSIG non-oficial distribution for Mac OS X
[3], increasing the supported platforms to this new one.

This is, with no doubt, a great contribution for the project, specially
appreciated for OS X users, and we think it could be a good starting
point to definitely boost the gvSIG Mac Community in order to have a
gvSIG distribution for Mac from now on.

We think it would be interesting to promote the creation of a working
group composed of Mac developers and users whose goal would be, first of
all, define the minimum roles and tasks needed to carry out the
maintenance of the distribution, and secondly, to carry out these tasks.

The working group would work autonomously under supervision of a gvSIG
TSC Board member and it would have the support of the gvSIG development
and testing teams.

Those who are interested in actively participate in this working group,
please, reply to this mail on the list or, if you prefer, send me a
private e-mail (mmadrid [at] gvsig [dot] com) introducing yourself,
indicating your profile (developer/user) and the tasks you think you can
contribute on.

Best regards,
Manuel.

[1] http://www.ai2.upv.es/en/index.php
[2]
http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/official/gvsig-1.10/extensiones-gvsig-1.10/extension-3d
[3] http://www.gvsig.org/web/projects/gvsig-desktop/other-distributions
-- 
Manuel Madrid.
Product and testing manager.
gvSIG project (http://www.gvsig.org).