Cameron - this is indeed an extremely interesting message. I need to thank you (and your team) for drafting a communication that may be of interest for many.
Just a sidebar note, below, as the concept of a "retired application" made me smile...(see below) 2008/7/28 Cameron Shorter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > End of life for Community Mapbuilder > > We, the Mapbuilder Project Steering Committee, have agreed that the time has > come for the Community Mapbuilder project to gracefully retire. ...... > > I suggest a new "retired" category be created which keeps track of retired > projects. > ....to expand on these lines... ...If the retired project belongs more to US, may I recommend it spends some time on a server located in the Florida Keys. ...If it belongs more to Europe, maybe Provence or Tuscany or other similar spots may be a good place for retired Mapbuilder to sit... ...If it feels like an Asian project, or from other regions of the world, I would like to know where Asians, Africans etc - would like to see it end its days. no puns intended - I think we are going to investigate more and more on the full life cycle of geospatial software (as more of these dynamics should be expected in the future), and I will keep your initial posting on Mapbuilder as a reference in this respect. Regards Andrea Giacomelli, aka pibinko vicepresident and media relations manager - GFOSS.it - Italian OSGeo Chapter _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss