<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I know Gary will be unavailable today, but this is something that we should discuss at the board and try to prioritize while he is still over there.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Mark</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 14, 2006, at 6:52 AM, Gary Lang wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Yesterday I met with some folks</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">from</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> a government institute that are</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">doing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> a lot of work with open source GIS and want to contribute code back, and in addition want to set up a chapter of OSGeo for China. Given their</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">deep involvement with the software</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">–</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> they use most of our projects</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> <FONT size="2" face="Arial">–</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> and reach across the country, I think these people would be invaluable members of OSGeo and perfect representatives of OSGeo in China.</FONT></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">What is our process for this? I move we get these guys into membership status right away and get them set up. They are willing to translate, host data, and become contributors to our projects.</FONT></SPAN></P><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">I will be offline for a cou</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">pl</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">e of days</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">; I am going up into the Yellow Mountains here, where net access is unlikely, so I will be back on Monday.</FONT></SPAN></P><DIV><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P dir="LTR"><SPAN lang="en-us"><FONT size="2" face="Arial">Gary</FONT></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"></SPAN></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>