<div dir="ltr">Here is the "<a href="http://www.osgeo.org/node/72/revisions/3316/view">before</a>" link if anyone wants a shortcut. Was not really looking to cut down the goals .. but clarification if needed.<div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div>
"encourage open geospatial education through participation in open
geospatial projects;"<br>
could be changed to<br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>So we have three things to communicate here</div><div>- open source geospatial</div><div>- community participation</div><div>- and the "open education" approach (think open access education materials)<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div>
"encourage open geospatial education by leveraging foundation
projects;"<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Sadly that misses the "community participation" point - we are trying to ensure education does not stop at use of open source geospatial projects. Instead we want to ensure educational outreach makes the point about open source participation.</div><div><br></div><div>In a similar fashion we need to keep educational outreach on open-source geospatial, and not limited to foundation projects - see communications on geoforall thread for the importance of not limiting our scope as a foundation.</div><div><br></div><div>How about one of these:</div><div><br></div><div>a) "educational outreach championing open education curriculum development covering participation and use of open-source geospatial" <br></div><div><br></div><div>b) "educational outreach championing participation and use of open-source geospatial and the development of an open education curriculum" <br></div><div><br></div><div>Longer but perhaps more clear?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div>
the two bullets below could be<br>
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- actively engage with the likeminded communities and
organziations;<br>
- enable communication and cooperation between OSGeo communities;<br>
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concised as<br>
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- actively engage with the likeminded communities and
organziations<br>
to promote inter-community communication and collaborations;<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I agree the wording got too close for comfort between the two topics - perhaps because of the word communities.</div><div><br></div><div>The first one "actively engage with the likeminded communities and organziations" ... is EXTERNAL where we are trying to engage with external organizations (OSM, ICA, LocationTech, Apache) using the tools we have available - membership, MOUs, joint events, shared initiatives ...</div><div><br></div><div>The second one "enable communication and cooperation between OSGeo communities" .. is INTERNAL where we want communication between the tribes (Java,C,Python) and platforms (Win32,Linux,...). Today the 'battle lines' are not expressed in terms of Java and C - but the goal of encouraging communication/collaboration remains.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><div>
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On 2016/02/04 9:18, Jody Garnett wrote:<br>
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<pre>I would like to be in position to write a blog post, citing the new
foundation vision/mission/goal in time for tomorrows anniversary.
Can I ask for review, questions, feedback on the following page:
* <a href="http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html" target="_blank">http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/about.html</a>
Specifically:
- review - any sentences broken, spelling mistakes?
- questions - any questions on a specific goal? What happened to the Sol
Katz award etc...
- feedback - I hope everyone finds these new goals easier to follow
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Jody Garnett
On 1 February 2016 at 00:23, Jody Garnett <a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com" target="_blank"><jody.garnett@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre>Managed to clean up the place after our meeting and am updating the
website this morning.
In writing down our mission statement I had to move "open philosophy"
from the start (even though it is a key idea). The placement made the
sentence weak due to too many ideas. I have moved it to the end as part of
"how" we will reach our goal.
BEFORE:
- Our mission is to foster open philosophy and global adoption of open
geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted to
participatory community driven development.
AFTER
- Foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by being an
inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and
participatory community driven development.
Please excuse this small change, all the ideas are still still represented.
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Jody Garnett
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