[OSGeo-Discuss] Polling charter members

[P Kishor]

yup, you nailed it. In fact, if the conversation is only about FOSS4G, I
couldn't give a rip. Otoh, if the conversation is about OSGeo, its nature
and what it stands for, I am all ears, and I do believe many other Charter
Members would also want to be included.

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just noting,
>
> discussion about relationship between LocationTech and OSGeo is here
> since 2012 (IIRC). That many people did not pain attention to it
> (actually including myself up to certain time), is not fault of OSGeo
> .. or LocationTech.
>
> It's just actually boring topic. We are community of (mostly)
> developers and users of FOSS4G (not conference, but software in this
> case). This sounds like politics .. who would pay attention? So, now
> we are here, things are happening, we can finally talk to whole
> community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big
> organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future
> for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good.
> If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position.
>
> Jachym
>
> 2014-09-17 22:42 GMT+02:00 P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>:
> > My guess is, just as I do, most Charter Members find this entire thread
> very
> > alien. For us who don't go to FOSS4G, OSGeo means something completely
> > different (here is where I disagree with an earlier email--I think it
> was Jo
> > Cook--that folks know OSGeo products but not OSGeo). To suddenly hear of
> all
> > this chatter about FOSS4G being used as a football between OSGeo and
> > LocationTech (an org I heard about for the first time also in this
> thread)
> > is like waking up at night to find a bunch of strangers chatting in your
> > living room.
> >
> > Definitely, involving Charter Members would be a very sound and nice
> thing
> > to do.
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Before we get to the stage of polling charter members and local
> chapters,
> >> it would be helpful if more of the charter membership and local chapters
> >> chipped in with their opinions. Many seem to have been very quiet, i am
> sure
> >> they must have a view
> >> ______
> >> Steven
> >>
> >>
> >> On 17 Sep 2014, at 20:00, conference-europe-request at lists.osgeo.org
> wrote:
> >>
> >> From: Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>
> >> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo
> >> Date: 17 September 2014 19:22:24 BST
> >> To: P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> >>
> >>
> >> Puneet,
> >> I agree with you, this is an "hot" decision that cannot be taken by a
> >> small group of people without at least have heard about what the OSGeo
> >> community think about.
> >>
> >> In this tread I have learnt a lot on LocationTech and on motivation that
> >> pushed some OSGeo members to embrace also LocationTech. I can really
> feel
> >> the desire to help and foster geospatial open source software from those
> >> guys.
> >>
> >> BTW, I also believe that FOSS4G is the OSGeo event.
> >>
> >> For this reason I believe that if OSGeo want to change things and share
> it
> >> with LocationTech (not just let them organize it in the name of), we
> need a
> >> deep OSGeo internal discussion at all level: Local Chapters, Charter
> >> members, Committees and finally the Board which has the responsibility
> to
> >> vote on this.
> >>
> >> So, my proposal is:
> >> 1) Have a formal proposal from LocationTech which explain terms of
> >> collaboration, commitments and guarantees
> >> 2) Publish publicly this proposal for a period (let's say 2 week) for
> >> people to look into this proposal
> >> 3) Call for a vote from charter members
> >> 4) Call for a letter of position letter from each committee and local
> >> Chapters
> >> 5) Publish publicly the results
> >> 6) Discuss it on the next board meeting and finally have a vote and a
> >> letter of motivation from the Board
> >>
> >>
> >> BTW, the FOSS4G-EUROPE website (http://foss4g-e.org/) states clearly at
> >> the home page: "OSGeo's European Conference on Free and Open Source
> Software
> >> for Geospatial".
> >>
> >>
> >> I hope this doesn't hurt anyone, and brings positive point of
> discussion.
> >>
> >> It is just my personal thought as a new board member, and sorry if I've
> >> lost some best practice currently in place.
> >>
> >> Maxi
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >> Discuss at lists.osgeo.org
> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
> >
> >
> >
> >
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