[OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Ravi]

educational strategy:
+1 for this, and I think much of it is needed in the developing world.
OSGeo educating through local chapters to evangelise and bring all users of GIS to understand our phylosophy is a good thrust for the future too.
Ravi Kumar

--- On Mon, 28/9/09, Massimo Di Stefano <massimodisasha at yahoo.it> wrote:

> From: Massimo Di Stefano <massimodisasha at yahoo.it>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo
> To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> Date: Monday, 28 September, 2009, 11:14 PM
> Hi All,
> 
> I agree with you i think we need a "local chapter" policy,
> to redistribute knowledge and organizational experience
> through the LC, helping ourselves to organize hack meetings
> and local conferences.
> 
> I think we also need to focus on an "educational strategy"
> to promote FOSS inside university departments.
> A lot of people uses proprietary sw for their works not
> because they think
> the proprietary software is better than the FOSS, but
> simply because they learned a proprietary application during
> their study and continue using them without considering
> other sw.
> 
> (cracking sw is too easy and in my experience  I see
> teachers even apply cracks or password cracked apps to their
> students)
> 
> So i hope to see in the next 5 years, OSGeo will improve in
> this direction, giving the right weight to an educational
> strategy.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Massimo.
> Il giorno 28/set/09, alle ore 18:17, Christopher Schmidt ha
> scritto:
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:40:17PM -0500, Howard
> Butler wrote:
> >> 
> >> 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.
> > 
> > I was going to write a post in response to this, but
> after reading
> > Howard's, I realize I hardly need to: essentially, his
> opinions and position
> > mirror mine 100%.
> > 
> > Best Regards,
> > --Christopher Schmidt
> > Web Developer
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