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\page governance Governance and Community Participation
\section osgeo OSGeo Project Membership
Traditionally GDAL has been lead by Frank Warmerdam, the original author of
much of GDAL/OGR, though with contributions and input from a variety of people.
As of February 2006 GDAL/OGR became a founding project of the
Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
and began a transition to a more community oriented governance model - in keeping
with OSGeo expectations.
Membership as an OSGeo project provides assurances that a variety of best practices
are being employed by the GDAL/OGR project, and that users and contributors can
be assured of responsible project operation and continuity of the project. In
particular:
- A consensus oriented Project Management Committee will be in charge of the project.
- Project source code and contributions will be vetted to ensure code is properly
made available, protecting contributors and users of GDAL/OGR.
- Systems infrastructure is provided by the foundation, with responsible backup and
redundancy to minimize disruptions.
\section pmc Project Management Committee
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 consisting of Frank Warmerdam,
Andrey Kiselev, Daniel Morissette and Howard Butler. This project steering
committee operates under the rules of \link rfc1_pmc.html GDAL/OGR RFC 1\endlink.
Note that discussion of proposals to the PMC take place on gdal-dev, and input
from all subscribers is welcome. A \link rfc_list list of past RFCs\endlink,
and \link psc_motions past motions \endlink is available for review.
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