As we discussed, we will wait for feedback from SAC meeting before making any decision.
Best regards,
Angelos
On 2/8/20 11:44 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
Dear OSGEO Board,
following the discussions in OSGeo and QGIS.ORG boards, I'm herewith
suggesting to budget a long term support for OSGeo4W, in order to give
good prospects for its long term maintenance of this crucial piece of
infrastructure. A reasonable amount can be estimated, but I guess it
will be in the order of 10.000 €.
All best wishes.
Il 16/01/20 16:43, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto:
Dear OSGEO Board
We are writing to petition your help both financially and for general
support with the OSGEO4W project. Over the years, OSGEO4W (started by
Frank Warmerdam and Jürgen Fischer) has become the de-facto delivery
mechanism to Windows users for many of the projects that make up OSGEO -
including GDAL, PROJ, GRASS, QGIS and many more.
Currently, most of the maintenance and improvements to OSGEO4W are
carried out through activities of the QGIS packaging process (our
windows standalone packages are based on OSGEO4W). This includes using a
portion of the income donated to QGIS.org each year to support the
OSGEO4W project.
Since OSGEO4W plays such a central role in the OSGEO landscape we would
like to ask you to 'adopt' the OSGEO4W project financially and also help
with marshalling more contributors to the project so that it is not a
'one man show' - which represents a vulnerability to the long term
prospects of this project. You can see these sentiments reflected in the
budget request for supporting OSGEO4W in the OSGEO budget call. This
budget request represents 50% of the anticipated budget for funded
OSGEO4W work for 2020, with the remainder being funded by QGIS.org for
the interim.
The item - Shared / Project resources for windows/mac building (discussed need - no firm plans as to direction yet)
But sadly not much discussion has happened on the topic.
Personally I think it should be funded partly via SAC budget – Jürgen Fischer already does a lot on SAC and is a SAC member. I’d be happy to try to help out – but not clear how all the building is done.
There was some discussion about how things like pgRouting / PostGIS packaging (for windows) – what I do can be folded in. Not sure that is feasible though as pgRouting/ PostGIS packaging relies on PostgreSQL Prmary Windows packaging (predominantly managed by EnterpriseDb), so the packages I make are designed to work with those.
As we discussed, we will wait for feedback from SAC meeting before
making any decision.
Best regards,
Angelos
On 2/8/20 11:44 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
Dear OSGEO Board,
following the discussions in OSGeo and QGIS.ORG boards, I’m herewith
suggesting to budget a long term support for OSGeo4W, in order to give
good prospects for its long term maintenance of this crucial piece of
infrastructure. A reasonable amount can be estimated, but I guess it
will be in the order of 10.000 €.
All best wishes.
Il 16/01/20 16:43, Paolo Cavallini ha scritto:
Dear OSGEO Board
We are writing to petition your help both financially and for general
support with the OSGEO4W project. Over the years, OSGEO4W (started by
Frank Warmerdam and Jürgen Fischer) has become the de-facto delivery
mechanism to Windows users for many of the projects that make up
OSGEO -
including GDAL, PROJ, GRASS, QGIS and many more.
Currently, most of the maintenance and improvements to OSGEO4W are
carried out through activities of the QGIS packaging process (our
windows standalone packages are based on OSGEO4W). This includes
using a
portion of the income donated to QGIS.org each year to support the
OSGEO4W project.
Since OSGEO4W plays such a central role in the OSGEO landscape we would
like to ask you to ‘adopt’ the OSGEO4W project financially and also
help
with marshalling more contributors to the project so that it is not a
‘one man show’ - which represents a vulnerability to the long term
prospects of this project. You can see these sentiments reflected in
the
budget request for supporting OSGEO4W in the OSGEO budget call. This
budget request represents 50% of the anticipated budget for funded
OSGEO4W work for 2020, with the remainder being funded by QGIS.org for
the interim.