[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate vision: Landon Blake

Dirk Frigne dirk.frigne at geosparc.com
Tue Aug 26 08:56:38 PDT 2014


Landon,
I don't understand your third point.
IMHO following OSGeo projects are Java projects (if I don't miss any):
- deegree
- geomajas
- geoserver
- geotools

D.

On 26-08-14 17:45, Landon Blake wrote:
>
> I wanted to share some comments on what I’d like to accomplish as an
> OSGeo Board Member. I have a bad habit of over committing, so I’m
> going to modestly limit my list of goals to the following:
>
> 1)      Work to help private companies and businesses that support the
> OSGeo software stack and other open source geospatial software. This
> includes increasing awareness about the software support services made
> available by these companies to customers and clients. It also
> includes making it easier for these private companies to support OSGeo
> activities and to receive recognition for this support.
>
> 2)      Work to further support OSGeo Labs. This includes identifying
> current hold-ups in our incubation and project approval process. I
> want to make it as easy as practical for projects to enter and
> graduate from incubation.
>
> 3)      Provide better coordination and organization of our open
> source Java geospatial community. Currently GeoTools is the only Java
> geospatial project in our software stack. I’d like to see greater
> cooperation among the Java advocates of OSGeo. This might include
> joint development of some standard libraries and packaging standards
> for the different platforms. I also think there is a tremendous
> opportunity to develop open source geospatial applications and
> libraries for Android.
>
> 4)      Organization house-keeping. This includes checking in with
> each committee to determine if it is functioning and if it has the
> resources it needs. Defunct committees will need a reboot. Committees
> that lack sufficient volunteer support or resources should be hibernated.
>
> However the election turns out, I hope to continue my work on the
> Journal and with OSGeo Labs.
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Landon
>
>
>
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