[OSGeo-Discuss] Comments on Sierra Club v. Orange Country court case?

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Reminder:  if you have comments on the Sierra Club, open-records, is-data-software court case, please get them in to me this week.

-mpg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:mpg at flaxen.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2012 12:20 PM
> To: OSGeo Discussions (discuss at lists.osgeo.org)
> Subject: formal request for endorement of amicus on Sierra Club v. Orange Country court case
> 
> OSGeo folk:
> 
> I'm formally requesting that OSGeo endorse the amicus ("friend of the court") brief being submitted by the Sierra Club to the
> California Supreme Court.  This case covers significant interest to our community, including the definition of GIS data and the public's
> right to access open records.
> 
> The amicus letter can be found at [1].  More details on the case can be found on our wiki at [2].
> 
> If you have any thoughts on this matter -- pro or con -- please reply to the list or to me.
> 
> 
> Following the protocol given in [3], discussion of this issue will take place on this mailing list until January 26th.  At that time, I will
> collect the community's responses and submit them to the Board for discussion at our next meeting on February 4th.
> 
> 
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/File:OrangeCountry_amicus_letter.pdf
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OrangeCounty_Amicus
> [3] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support
> 
> -mpg