[MapFish-Dev] MapFish Bof at FOSS4G2010: summary
Cédric Moullet
cedric.moullet at camptocamp.com
Wed Nov 4 02:33:54 CET 2009
Hi All,
Several persons are on their way back from down under and the OSGEO board of
director will decide tomorrow about the incubation for MapFish (
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2009-11-05).
Therefore, I propose to make this first IRC meeting next wednesday 5/11 at 3
pm UTC:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=11&day=11&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=87
Best regards,
Cédric
2009/10/26 Julien-Samuel Lacroix <jlacroix at mapgears.com>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm also interested like I said in the BoF. I'll be in transit at the time
> of the meeting, but will review the summary and give my opinion afterward.
>
> Julien
>
> Cédric Moullet wrote:
>
>> I'm also interested in participating to the initial group.
>> I already propose to make a first IRC meeting of this group on wednesday
>> 4/11 at 3 pm UTC:
>> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=11&day=4&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=87<
>> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2009&month=11&day=4&hour=15&min=0&sec=0&p1=87
>> >
>> Best regards,
>> Cédric
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 3:41 AM, Till Adams <adams at terrestris.de <mailto:
>> adams at terrestris.de>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Claude, @all,
>>
>> thanks a lot for the really good review of our BOF.
>> In the BOF I already raised my hand on the BOF, but to be complete,
>> I'll do
>> it again now.
>>
>> Regards, Till
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------ursprüngliche Nachricht-----------------
>> Von: "Claude Philipona" claude.philipona at camptocamp.com
>> <mailto:claude.philipona at camptocamp.com>
>> An: "Mapfish Users" users at mapfish.org <mailto:users at mapfish.org>,
>> "Mapfish Dev" dev at mapfish.org <mailto:dev at mapfish.org>
>>
>> Datum: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:49:49 +1100
>> -------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > The MapFish BoF took place yesterday at the FOSS4G conference, with
>> > about 11 participants from different organizations and with
>> different
>> > backgrounds. All are sharing a great interest in MapFish and are
>> > interested in its future development.
>> >
>> > The goal of the BoF was to pursue the discussions already started on
>> > the list and on IRC.
>> >
>> > Just to settle the global context, Claude quickly recalled the
>> MapFish
>> history:
>> > - MapFish was initiated by Camptocamp to ease the development of
>> > complex Web2.0 type webmapping application
>> > - MapFish was made as a development framework to help the developer
>> > address the project requirements without starting from scratch each
>> > time.
>> > - A growing interest from users, integrators, organizations outside
>> > Camptocamp showed that MapFish meets some needs for implementing
>> > webmapping application
>> > - MapFish is now at a crossing point. It has been built iteratively
>> > from the needs and requirements of different projects. It is now
>> time
>> > to decide for the future of MapFish community: what MapFish
>> framework
>> > should offer?, what should not be in MapFish? Briefly said, it is
>> > time, based on the existing experiences, to set the future
>> targets for
>> > MapFish and to choose the best ways to do it.
>> > - It is now time to organize the global community in a broader
>> way, to
>> > organize the project governance.
>> > - Considering the wide range of interest and the need of such type
>> of
>> > solution, it is also time to apply for OSGeo incubation.
>> >
>> > Then, a discussion took place about the PSC creation (Project
>> Steering
>> > Committee): what would be the goal of the PSC?, the decision made by
>> > the PSC?, how many members?, and from which backgrounds?. 7
>> > participants showed their interest to be part of the PSC and 2
>> persons
>> > not present at FOSS4G have already reported their interest.
>> During the
>> > discussion, it turned out that the exact fixed number and the
>> > background was not the biggest issue at the moment (except that a
>> huge
>> > number is probably not efficient). Meritocracy has to play a role in
>> > regard to PSC. Additionally,it would be good that a majority of PSC
>> > members are not also part of Camptocamp. The important issue was to
>> > settle, at the moment, the global MapFish project's governance in an
>> > open way. Instead of directly creating a formal fixed PSC, it was
>> > agreed to create a constituent assembly, formed by any person
>> willing
>> > to put energy in the MapFish future. The goals of this assembly are:
>> > - Set the rule for the PSC and lead to the official PSC start
>> > - Organize the discussion about the MapFish future (general roadmap)
>> >
>> > Anyone interested to actively participate to this assembly is
>> welcome
>> > to notify his interest on the dev mailing list.
>> >
>> > After presenting each others, telling a little about their
>> backgrounds
>> > and explaining the reasons that make them have interest in MapFish,
>> > each participant presented their global expectations related to
>> > MapFish, which can be summarized with the following non-exhaustive
>> > statements:
>> > - MapFish needs to help the developer create webmapping application
>> > without reinventing the wheel.
>> > - MapFish is a development framework.
>> > - MapFish has to be a complete web mapping solution that can
>> simplify
>> > the creation of web mapping infrastructure.
>> > - The architecture of MapFish has to be clearly stated (typically
>> the
>> > position of GeoExt and MapFish client).
>> > - MapFish has to be a framework providing easy way to implement high
>> > level end user functionalities, both on client and server side.
>> > - The importance of usability, look&feel, "sexiness" of capabilities
>> > of MapFish framework were reported by several participants
>> > - MapFish should use other powerful OSGEO technologies, collaborate
>> > with the others projects and don't need to reinvent the wheel.
>> > - A simple deployment procedure has to proposed to start with
>> MapFish.
>> > - The position of Studio and Print have to be clarified.
>> > - The following needs were identified: Oracle, security, concurrent
>> > editing support.
>> > - The license question has to be discussed (GPLV3 vs other).
>> > - Address the copyright issue (OSGEO?, contributor agreement,...)
>> >
>> > These are the topics that will addressed in defining MapFish future.
>> >
>> >
>> > Now, if you are interested in participating to the initial group
>> > (constituent assembly), please raise your hands until October 30 on
>> > the Mapfish dev list.
>> >
>> >
>> > People who attended the BoF:
>> > - Till Adams, Terrestris
>> > - Yves Moisan, Borealis
>> > - Jorge Gustavo Rocha, Portugal
>> > - James Clonninger, SynCadd
>> > - Julien Collaer, Sodiplan
>> > - Michael Smith, US Corps of Engineer
>> > - Julien-Samuel Lacroix, Mapgears
>> > - Eric Lemoine, Camptocamp
>> > - François Van der Biest, Camptocamp
>> > - Cédric Moullet, Camptocamp
>> > - Claude Philipona, Camptocamp
>> > _______________________________________________
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>>
>> > http://www.mapfish.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dev
>> >
>>
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