| 5 | | Traditionally GDAL has been lead by Frank Warmerdam, the original author of |
| 6 | | much of GDAL/OGR, though with contributions and input from a variety of people. |
| 7 | | As of February 2006 GDAL/OGR became a founding project of the |
| 8 | | [http://www.osgeo.org/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)] |
| 9 | | and began a transition to a more community oriented governance model - in keeping |
| 10 | | with OSGeo expectations. |
| 11 | | |
| 12 | | Membership as an OSGeo project provides assurances that a variety of best practices |
| 13 | | are being employed by the GDAL/OGR project, and that users and contributors can |
| 14 | | be assured of responsible project operation and continuity of the project. In |
| 15 | | particular: |
| 16 | | |
| 17 | | * A consensus oriented Project Management Committee will be in charge of the project. |
| 18 | | * Project source code and contributions will be vetted to ensure code is properly made available, protecting contributors and users of GDAL/OGR. |
| 19 | | * Systems infrastructure is provided by the foundation, with responsible backup and redundancy to minimize disruptions. |
| 20 | | |
| 21 | | |
| 22 | | == Project Management Committee == |
| 23 | | |
| 24 | | As of April 2006 (following the GDAL/OGR 1.3.2 release) the project has been placed in the hands of a Project Steering Committee. This project steering committee operates under the rules of [wiki:rfc1_pmc GDAL/OGR RFC 1], and is overall responsible for decisions related to the GDAL/OGR project. The current members are: |
| 25 | | |
| 26 | | * Frank Warmerdam |
| 27 | | * Andrey Kiselev |
| 28 | | * Daniel Morissette |
| 29 | | * Howard Butler |
| 30 | | * Tamas Szekeres |
| 31 | | * Even Rouault (chair) |
| 32 | | * Jukka Rahkonen |
| 33 | | * Kurt Schwehr |
| 34 | | * Norman Barker |
| 35 | | |
| 36 | | Note that discussion of proposals to the PMC take place on gdal-dev, and input from all subscribers is welcome. A [RfcList list of past RFCs], and [PscMotions past motions] is available for review. |
| 37 | | |
| 38 | | === Meetings === |
| | 5 | === Past meetings === |
