Incubator Application: MIO

[warmerdam]

Please provide the name and email address of the principal Project Owner.

Derrick Oswald
Belpstrasse 7
Muri bei Bern
Switzerland 3073

Please provide the names and emails of co-project owners (if any).

Please provide the names, emails and entity affiliation of all official committers

Derrick Oswald (derrick.oswald at autodesk.com)

Please describe your Project. A data model import/export tool for FDO and Topobase. This is to be demonstrated and used by participants of a 90 minute lab at Autodesk University, Thursday December 5, 2008 entitles “Data Modeling for Autodesk® TopobaseTM and FDO using UML”. The tool provides three aspects: an FdoModelIO stand-alone program that performs loading and storing of FDO data models from various provides to/from UML in the form of XMI, a similar facility that operate inside Topobase Administrator and a Topobase StructureUpdatePlugIn for applying an XMI data model using the Topobase structure update mechanism.

Why is hosting at OSGeo good for your project? It is intended to release the source code either on OSGeo.org or Sourceforge.org whichever is easiest and most accessible to end users and can be performed in a timely manner prior to Autodesk University.

Type of application does this project represent (client, server, standalone, library, etc.):

Utility.

Please describe any relationships to other open source projects.

The project uses the nUML (​http://numl.sourceforge.net/index.php/Main_Page) and nUnit (​http://www.nunit.org/) libraries.

Please describe any relationships with commercial companies or products.

The project uses libraries from Autodesk Topobase.

Which open source license(s) will the source code be released under?

Undecided. Either LGPL or Common Public License Version 1.0.

Is there already a beta or official release?

No. Similar tools have been used within Autodesk Consulting.

What is the origin of your project (commercial, experimental, thesis or other higher education, government, or some other source)?

Experimental.

Does the project support open standards? Which ones and to what extent? (OGC, w3c, ect.) Has the software been certified to any standard (CITE for example)? If not, is it the intention of the project owners to seek certification at some point?

Supports XMI version 2.1 or 1.2. No certification body is known to exist.

Is the code free of patents, trademarks, and do you control the copyright?

Yes.

How many people actively contribute (code, documentation, other?) to the project at this time?

One.

How many people have commit access to the source code respository?

One.

Approximately how many users are currently using this project?

Thirty will be using it as of December 5, 2008.

What type of users does your project attract (government, commercial, hobby, academic research, etc. )?

Government and Utility.

If you do not intend to host any portion of this project using the OSGeo infrastructure, why should you be considered a member project of the OSGeo Foundation?

N/A

Does the project include an automated build and test?

Not at this time.

What language(s) are used in this project? (C/Java/perl/etc)

C#

What is the dominant written language (i.e. English, French, Spanish, German, etc) of the core developers?

English

What is the (estimated) size of a full release of this project? How many users do you expect to download the project when it is released?

50MB. Unknown, possibly 500.

[warmerdam]

After some off-list discussion of the incubation process and our likely selection process Derrick has decided to host the project on SourceForge and withdraw the application for incubation.