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Dear All<br>
I agree completely with Margherita. The most of people are asking themselves what it is happening.<br>
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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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><b>Da:</b> discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org <discuss-bounces@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Margherita Di Leo <diregola@gmail.com><br>
<b>Inviato:</b> giovedì 18 settembre 2014 10.13<br>
<b>A:</b> Jachym Cepicky<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>; conference; osgeo-board List; Steven Feldman<br>
<b>Oggetto:</b> Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Polling charter members</font>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear All,
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Jachym Cepicky <span dir="ltr">
<<a href="mailto:jachym.cepicky@gmail.com" target="_blank">jachym.cepicky@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Just noting,<br>
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discussion about relationship between LocationTech and OSGeo is here<br>
since 2012 (IIRC). That many people did not pain attention to it<br>
(actually including myself up to certain time), is not fault of OSGeo<br>
.. or LocationTech.<br>
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It's just actually boring topic. We are community of (mostly)<br>
developers and users of FOSS4G (not conference, but software in this<br>
case). This sounds like politics .. who would pay attention? So, now<br>
we are here, things are happening, we can finally talk to whole<br>
community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big<br>
organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future<br>
for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good.<br>
If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position.<br>
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<div style="">If anyone is wondering why most charter members remained silent about the topic, here i can offer my 2 cents..</div>
<div style="">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?</div>
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<div style="">Thanks for any pointers</div>
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