1.. _rfc-79: 2 3============================================================= 4RFC 79: Listing of Service Providers on GDAL website 5============================================================= 6 7============== ============================ 8Author: Daniel Morissette, Even Rouault 9Contact: even.rouault @ spatialys.com 10Started: 2021-Feb-22 11Last updated: 2021-Mar-01 12Status: Adopted 13============== ============================ 14 151. Motivation 16============= 17 18GDAL is developed and supported by a rich ecosystem of businesses and 19individuals around the world but we do not do a good job of promoting those 20service providers and making them easy to find by our users at the moment. 21 22In this RFC, we propose a plan to address this by adding a Service Providers 23page to the GDAL website. 24 252. Proposed plan 26================ 27 28A new Service Providers page will be added to the Sphinx documentation. 29 30The service providers will be grouped in three categories. The descriptions 31below should make it relatively easy to determine in which group a given 32organization belongs. 33 34Each qualified organization who wishes to be listed is responsible for 35adding themselves to the correct category in the page through a pull 36request (or a direct commit in case of core committers). We are intentionally 37not providing instructions here for preparing the pull request as 38it is expected that a qualified service provider should have people on 39staff who can figure it out. Yes, we intentionally 40try to keep the bar at a minimum level. 41 42A PSC vote is NOT required in order to add a new service provider, 43i.e. any core committer can validate and commit the pull 44request (or their own entry) but in case of doubts or disagreements on the 45interpretation of the rules, the GDAL PSC will be the ultimate authority 46to resolve the question. 47 48Organizations in each category are displayed in randomized order (except 49in the PDF docs which are static). However entries should be added to the 50source file in alphabetical order (for PDF docs purpose). 51The output will be similar to 52https://mapserver.org/community/service_providers.html 53 542.1 Core Contributors 55--------------------- 56 57Core Contributors are the organizations that have one or more 58Core Committer (a person with merge rights in the GDAL GitHub repository) 59and/or PSC members as part of their staff and who provide 60GDAL related services to customers. 61 62To qualify, the Core Committers and/or PSC members must be directly employed 63by the organization and not part time contractors. 64 65They get to add a 200px max high or wide logo with a descriptive text outlining their qualifications and services. 66 672.2 Contributors 68---------------- 69 70Contributors are organizations who provide GDAL related services and 71have one or more people on their staff who are well known in the GDAL 72community for their long term contributions to the project. Contributions are 73not limited to source code and can also be in the form of documentation, 74binary builds, active user support via the public forums, etc. 75 76They get to add a 150px max high or wide logo with a descriptive text outlining their qualifications and services. 77 782.3 Other Service Providers 79--------------------------- 80 81Organization with GDAL expertise and providing services around GDAL 82can fit in this category. While proprietary solutions providers are welcome, 83we expect organizations listed here to be providing legitimate services to 84users of the Open Source software as well. 85This is not an advertisement board for proprietary products. 86 87They get to add a 100px max high or wide logo with a descriptive text outlining their qualifications and services. 88 892.4 Refreshing the service providers list 90----------------------------------------- 91 92If at some point (every 2 years?) we feel that the list is or might be no 93longer current, we could bring it up to date as follows: 94 95* create a GitHub ticket dedicated for the refresh 96* send an email to the list with this message "in 4 weeks, we are going to remove 97 all currently listed service providers to refresh the site. If you are still 98 interested, add a note to ticket XXXX". 99 100Instead of the ticket we could just ask people to reply to the email but the advantage of 101the ticket is to generate less email traffic for those not interested. It 102leaves a trace of the list of organizations who responded in a single place inside the ticket. 103 1043. FAQ 105====== 106 107* Should we also recognize sponsors or organizations that are funding significant 108 features in this page? 109 110 * No. This is a service provider page and not a sponsorship page. However 111 if the organization in question is also offering GDAL related services they 112 can be added to the relevant category. They just won't get special status due 113 to their financial contributions. 114 1154. Credits 116========== 117 118This RFC is a straightforward adaptation of the equivalent MapServer one: 119https://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-116.html 120 1215. Voting History 122================= 123 124+1 from PSC members MateuszL, KurtS, JukkaR, DanielM and EvenR. 125