[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Polling charter members

Thu Sep 18 23:32:15 PDT 2014

Hey Jachym,

wasn’t Cameron referring specifically to what options we have to “professionalize” FOSS4G organising?

And you were talking more about OSGeo’s goals etc. ?

Also, I think it makes sense to create some content in a Wiki first, and use that content to create a questionnaire. It’s hard to create a good questionnaire from scratch if the solutions haven’t been discussed in detail and worked on by multiple people IMHO.

Best regards,
Bart

On 19 Sep 2014, at 08:02, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:

> I proposed to prepare Google forms for that in other thread. Could have IMHO more valuable output
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> On Sep 19, 2014 3:38 AM, "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'll volunteer to start a wiki collating options for the FOSS4G future, with sections that people can add comments into.
> I should have something up for review and contributions within 24 hours.
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> On 18/09/2014 7:04 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
>> Dear All
>> I agree completely with Margherita. The most of people are asking themselves what it is happening.
>> Please who was and is involved, please write the history of what has happened on a wiki page. When the plot is finalised the charter members  vote. 
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>> Da: discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
>> Inviato: giovedì 18 settembre 2014 10.13
>> A: Jachym Cepicky
>> Cc: <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>; conference; osgeo-board List; Steven Feldman
>> Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Polling charter members
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>> Dear All,
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>> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Just noting,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> If anyone is wondering why most charter members remained silent about the topic, here i can offer my 2 cents..
>> It is true that this is a long story, but it's hard to find all the elements needed for judgement. I'd ask those that have personally followed the steps, to kindly fill a wiki page with the most important facts. Another thing is that, for those that couldn't make it at FOSS4G, it is (I believe) not easy to understand on what exactly the community of charter members is being called to express their opinion. What does it mean "to cooperate" and what does it imply for the organizations involved? Is it a case by case cooperation what you're talking about? why it looks like is the FOSS4G event at stake here?
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>> Thanks for any pointers
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