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<p>Perhaps this is related to Helena's OSGeo Edu posting , but more efforts towards outreach to the Elementary, Middle, and High School ( pre-college) educational communities. Working with them to set up pre-packaged lessons involving geographic concepts in which you can give the student a CD/DVD with project data and software that they could use at home on their Windows/Mac/Linux box. Not just basic viewing, but some analysis as well.<br>
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On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Howard Butler wrote:<br>
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> On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:<br>
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>> Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo <br>
>> over<br>
>> the next 3 and 5 years. I'd really like to hear thoughts on the <br>
>> matter<br>
>> and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst<br>
>> committees, projects, chapters and the board.<br>
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>> It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming <br>
>> election to<br>
>> get a sense of where other members are thinking these days.<br>
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> My measurement of success for OSGeo and priorities I hope it shares <br>
> in the next 3-5 years are the following three items:<br>
> - Continued expansion of the local chapters. Local chapters make <br>
> OSGeo real in the sense that mailing lists, websites, and an IRC <br>
> channel can't.<br>
> - The conference continues uninterrupted for the next five years, <br>
> and we start to use it our central fundraising piece.<br>
> - Cross-project collaboration, like the journal, osgeo4w, metacrs, <br>
> benchmarking, system administration, and geodata continues to be <br>
> fostered by us. From my biased developer's perspective, these have <br>
> been OSGeo's biggest accomplishments along with the local chapter <br>
> development and consolidation of the conference.<br>
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+1 on these, including OSGeo Edu efforts as another example of cross- <br>
project collaboration<br>
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Helena<br>
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> Howard<br>
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