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== Meeting Info ==

The third meeting of the FDO PSC took take place Wednesday September 26th Face-2-Face at FOSS4G. 

Meeting Chair:  Greg Boone

Universal Time:  http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=9&day=26&year=2007&hour=16&min=0&sec=0&p1=256

Location:  OSGeo Booth at FOSS4G2007

== Agenda ==

 * Incubation
 * Autogenerated Documentation
 * Linux Build issues
 * Adding New Committers
 * Client Application Library (CAL)
 * Getting one site (trac?) for FDO instead of two.
 * Reporting download statics
 * Adding Futures Page to FDO Wiki
 * Improving FDO Documentation
 * Improving FDO Web Site Content

== Notes ==

 * Incubation
    * Discussed and reviewed sponsor requirements
        * Show that the PSC is operating and in charge
        * Hold Regular PSC Meetings
        * Update FDO Provenance Review
        * Review and publish the updated Contributor Agreement document
        * Update FDO Incubation Status Page
        * Mateusz and Harris are required to sign a CLA
        * Clarify that !MapGuide and FDO share coding standards
    * Have PSC setup a uniform release cycle for FDO
    * Get the OGR, King and PostGIS providers into the build process
 * Autogenerated Documentation
    * Remove Autogenerated documentation from FDO SVN
    * Generate documentation on server or upload zip file per release per release
 * Linux Build issues
    * FDO Linux install needs to support customizable install locations
    * FDO build needs to be able to support customizable Thirdparty software locations
 * Adding New Committers
    * Greg to send out email requesting new FDO committers to be added
    * Greg to ping Frank on mechanism to add new committers
 * Client Application Library (CAL)
    * Start discussion on fdo-internals mailing list
        * Create a Wiki Page for this topic
        * Describe 'What it is'
            * Leveling Library
            * Capabilities
            * Projecttions
            * Connection Pooling
            * Joins
            * Expression Engine
            * Security Layer
    * Where does it fit in, in relation to FDO/MapGuide
 * Getting one site (trac?) for FDO instead of two.
    * CSS work required to get Trac a little more friendly
    * Rework the menu structure
    * Need to move content from Drupal
    * Need to change fdo.osgeo.org in order to redirect to users to trac.osgeo.org
 * Reporting download statics
    * Would be nice to have an easier way to get the stats
    * How to get accurate stats for downloads?
        * Per SDK?
        * Per Provider?
 * Adding Futures Page to FDO Wiki
    * Greg to start process and upload exisiting documents from Autodesk
 * Improving FDO Documentation
    * Need to have a 'How to write a provider' document
    * Find a simple example to use
    * Frank to start on this. Use comma separated text format as an example
    * It would be nice to have a testing suite for new FDO providers
        * Certification program?
 * Improving FDO Web Site Content
    * The FDO community should be profiling applications using FDO
        * FME
        * !OneSpatial
        * !MapGuide
        * Autodesk