[OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Landon Blake]

+1 on the development of local chapters. Strong local chapters will make
for a strong organization.

Question: As local chapters become a more important part of the
organization, how do we encourage collaboration among chapters, so as to
avoid duplicated effort?

Landon
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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Howard Butler
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 8:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo


On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

> Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo over
> the next 3 and 5 years.  I'd really like to hear thoughts on the  
> matter
> and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst
> committees, projects, chapters and the board.
>
> It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming election  
> to
> get a sense of where other members are thinking these days.


My measurement of success for OSGeo and priorities I hope it shares in  
the next 3-5 years are the following three items:
- Continued expansion of the local chapters.  Local chapters make  
OSGeo real in the sense that mailing lists, websites, and an IRC  
channel can't.
- The conference continues uninterrupted for the next five years, and  
we start to use it our central fundraising piece.
- Cross-project collaboration, like the journal, osgeo4w, metacrs,  
benchmarking, system administration, and geodata continues to be  
fostered by us.  From my biased developer's perspective, these have  
been OSGeo's biggest accomplishments along with the local chapter  
development and consolidation of the conference.

Howard
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