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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I was thinking the same thing.<BR>
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Going over all of this would make for a good board meeting.<BR>
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Gary<BR>
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From: Jo Walsh [<A HREF="mailto:jo@frot.org">mailto:jo@frot.org</A>]<BR>
Sent: Mon 12/4/2006 6:45 PM<BR>
To: board@board.osgeo.org<BR>
Cc: <BR>
Subject: [OSGeo-Board] so quiet...<BR>
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dear all,<BR>
<BR>
It's been so quiet, that I had to check the mail archives to be sure I<BR>
hadn't been bounced off this list or the discuss list... ;)<BR>
<BR>
Is no news good news? Is this an inevitable seasonal lull?<BR>
(At < 8 hours daily daylight at 51N, waking up is hard to do...)<BR>
<BR>
I get the sense that most of core OSGeo activity is being channeled<BR>
through VisCom these days. I appreciated mpg's last status update of<BR>
VisCom activity to the discuss list. This is all good, but it does<BR>
kind of bypass the more hackerly contingent, people used to 'value'<BR>
being more quantifiable in project activity, download rates etc -<BR>
involvement in a project combining "scratching an itch" and public<BR>
reputation and the scope for more interesting future projects...<BR>
<BR>
Tyler, I hope you've enjoyed your first month in your position as ED.<BR>
I'd love to see a braindump from you about how you feel it's going,<BR>
where you could use support, where you see opportunities for growth<BR>
and collaboration within OSGeo that could be more actively pursued,<BR>
where you see things that really ought to be fixed or re-examined.<BR>
<BR>
Something else I would be interested in seeing is milestones - again,<BR>
that's hard to separate out from the quantifiable - the stuff we can<BR>
get now like website traffic, users and user activity on the wiki;<BR>
the stuff we can get in the nearish future like card-carrying members,<BR>
sponsorship interest and influx etc. But it would be good to have some<BR>
more structured way of thinking about the future, promises to hold<BR>
ourselves (as Board members or as the membership in general) to.<BR>
<BR>
best wishes,<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
jo<BR>
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