[Board] Board meeting!

[Brian Hamlin]

hi all- two things... first, briefly, is that I have discovered that 
there is a new December 7th call for public comments regarding the US 
National Broadband map and the disclosure of data to the public.. I 
have sent an email to the GeoData list, and have heard nothing back 
yet...  My contacts tell me that the Australian National Boradband map 
is now underway as well..

the second is that I feel there are yet to be discovered really really 
good ways for OSGeo to grow organizationally.. I feel there is some 
"stuckness" in having such talented and accomplished groups, look to 
sponsorship and the annual meeting as the *sole* means of sustaining 
the organization, at a time when there are profound and fundemental 
changes in the area that very much involve OSGeo projects...

Public Libraries, research institutes, the Luekemia and Lymphoma 
Society or the Osteoporosis Institute in the US, policy think tanks, 
public interest law firms.. all have assets and missions and have found 
a place in the world.. and OSGeo in its formation could well learn from 
these to find long term viablility..

.. although I am not prepared to make a more detailed presentation 
today, I would like to keep these topics alive ...

best regards from Berkeley, California
   -Brian


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Brian Hamlin
ISDE5 Steering Committee
Planetwork.net
OSGeo California Chapter