<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">This ' LocationTech and OSGeo collaboration ', appears to be some thing that the OSGeo Charter should involve and motivate opinion etc. Those at the helm may pl post a summary of the, 'storey so far'. <div id="yiv8298223418"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div id="yiv8298223418yui_3_16_0_8_1411024810920_4"><span id="yiv8298223418yui_3_16_0_8_1411024810920_11"></span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yiv8298223418yqt9990828533" id="yiv8298223418yqt78954"><div class="yiv8298223418yahoo_quoted" id="yiv8298223418yui_3_16_0_8_1411024810920_7" style="display: block;"> <div
class="yiv8298223418yui_3_16_0_1_1411024810920_8474" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div class="yiv8298223418yui_3_16_0_1_1411024810920_8475" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, September 18, 2014 2:23 AM, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky@gmail.com> wrote:<br clear="none"> </font> </div> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"> <div class="yiv8298223418y_msg_container">Just noting,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">discussion about relationship between LocationTech and OSGeo is here<br clear="none">since 2012
(IIRC). That many people did not pain attention to it<br clear="none">(actually including myself up to certain time), is not fault of OSGeo<br clear="none">.. or LocationTech.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">It's just actually boring topic. We are community of (mostly)<br clear="none">developers and users of FOSS4G (not conference, but software in this<br clear="none">case). This sounds like politics .. who would pay attention? So, now<br clear="none">we are here, things are happening, we can finally talk to whole<br clear="none">community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big<br clear="none">organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future<br clear="none">for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good.<br clear="none">If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Jachym<br clear="none"><br clear="none">2014-09-17 22:42 GMT+02:00 P Kishor <<a
rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:punk.kish@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:punk.kish@gmail.com">punk.kish@gmail.com</a>>:<br clear="none">> My guess is, just as I do, most Charter Members find this entire thread very<br clear="none">>
alien. For us who don't go to FOSS4G, OSGeo means something completely<br clear="none">> different (here is where I disagree with an earlier email--I think it was Jo<br clear="none">> Cook--that folks know OSGeo products but not OSGeo). To suddenly hear of all<br clear="none">> this chatter about FOSS4G being used as a football between OSGeo and<br clear="none">> LocationTech (an org I heard about for the first time also in this thread)<br clear="none">> is like waking up at night to find a bunch of strangers chatting in your<br clear="none">> living room.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Definitely, involving Charter Members would be a very sound and nice thing<br clear="none">> to do.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Steven Feldman <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:shfeldman@gmail.com">shfeldman@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Before we get to the stage of polling charter members and local chapters,<br clear="none">>> it would be helpful if more of the charter membership and local
chapters<br clear="none">>> chipped in with their opinions. Many seem to have been very quiet, i am sure<br clear="none">>> they must have a view<br clear="none">>> ______<br clear="none">>> Steven<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> On 17 Sep 2014, at 20:00, <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:conference-europe-request@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:conference-europe-request@lists.osgeo.org">conference-europe-request@lists.osgeo.org</a> wrote:<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> From: Massimiliano Cannata <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch" target="_blank" href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a>><br clear="none">>> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo<br clear="none">>> Date: 17 September 2014 19:22:24 BST<br clear="none">>> To: P Kishor
<<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:punk.kish@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:punk.kish@gmail.com">punk.kish@gmail.com</a>><br clear="none">>> Cc: OSGeo Discussions <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Puneet,<br clear="none">>> I agree with you, this is an "hot" decision that cannot be taken by a<br clear="none">>> small group of people without at least have heard about what the OSGeo<br clear="none">>> community think about.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> In this tread I have learnt a lot on LocationTech and on motivation that<br clear="none">>> pushed some OSGeo members to embrace also LocationTech. I can really feel<br clear="none">>> the desire to help and foster
geospatial open source software from those<br clear="none">>> guys.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> BTW, I also believe that FOSS4G is the OSGeo event.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> For this reason I believe that if OSGeo want to change things and share it<br clear="none">>> with LocationTech (not just let them organize it in the name of), we need a<br clear="none">>> deep OSGeo internal discussion at all level: Local Chapters, Charter<br clear="none">>> members,
Committees and finally the Board which has the responsibility to<br clear="none">>> vote on this.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> So, my proposal is:<br clear="none">>> 1) Have a formal proposal from LocationTech which explain terms of<br clear="none">>> collaboration, commitments and guarantees<br clear="none">>> 2) Publish publicly this proposal for a period (let's say 2 week) for<br clear="none">>> people to look into this proposal<br clear="none">>> 3) Call for a vote from charter members<br clear="none">>> 4) Call for a letter of position letter from each committee and local<br clear="none">>> Chapters<br clear="none">>> 5) Publish publicly the results<br clear="none">>> 6) Discuss it on the next board meeting and finally have a vote and a<br clear="none">>> letter of motivation from the Board<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br
clear="none">>> BTW, the FOSS4G-EUROPE website (<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://foss4g-e.org/">http://foss4g-e.org/</a>) states clearly at<br clear="none">>> the home page: "OSGeo's European Conference on Free and Open Source
Software<br clear="none">>> for Geospatial".<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> I hope this doesn't hurt anyone, and brings positive point of discussion.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> It is just my personal thought as a new board member, and sorry if I've<br clear="none">>> lost some best practice currently in place.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> Maxi<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">>> Discuss mailing list<br clear="none">>> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br clear="none">>> <a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank"
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