Hi Peter, Let me ask you: what do you hope to gain by getting an OSGeo mark? And, whatever that is, is that worth all this negotiation?
Personally, I use a product if it is good for me, not because it has a certain blessing on it. There are many non-OSGeo products I use, and there are many OSGeo products I don’t use. If Rasdaman suits my needs, I will use it whether or not it has been blessed by OSGeo. Since it seems like what you want and what OSGeo is willing to give are at odds, I ask again: what do you hope to gain from OSGeo’s blessing? > On May 5, 2016, at 6:24 AM, Peter Baumann <p.baum...@jacobs-university.de> > wrote: > > Hi Cameron, > > I tried very much to make the situation transparent. Maybe the notion of > Principal Investigator helps here (cf Wikipedia - although biased towards > medical science): > A principal investigator (PI) is the holder of an independent grant > administered by a university and the lead researcher for the grant project, > usually in the sciences, such as a laboratory study or a clinical trial. The > phrase is also often used as a synonym for "head of the laboratory" or > "research group leader." While the expression is common in the sciences, it > is used widely for the person or persons who make final decisions and > supervise funding and expenditures on a given research project. > > I am the PI of rasdaman, and that will not change, also not indirectly > through wordsmithing as proposed. > > OSGeo is entering new domains with rasdaman, which is: scientific research > projects. Like some other communities, these have existed long before OSGeo, > and have their own ethics, procedures, and rules. It is unlikely that science > will change and give up freedom of research based on its principles well > accepted by the whole community. If OSGeo intends to change these in general > then maybe starting with rasdaman as an isolated item in a vast universe is > not the optimal point. > > OSGeo may find out that its very special (although obviously not > unambiguously codified) views constrain it to particular ecosystems. But I am > not imposing nor judging. Just trying to explain. > > HTH, > Peter > > > … _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
