[Geodata] Geodata Mission

[David William Bitner]

Frank,

My hopes are that people will add all those things to the lists.  What I put
there was in no way shape or form supposed to be complete, but rather a
starting point to bring in other ideas or viewpoints.

David

On 11/18/07, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> David William Bitner wrote:
> > At the last meeting of the Geodata Committee, we talked about refining
> > the mission of the Public Geospatial Data Project.  In order to assist
> > this process, I have created a wiki (
> >
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project_Update_Mission
> )
> > with a list of statements under four categories: Purpose, Tasks,
> > Beliefs, and Hurdles.  I would like to encourage everyone to please look
> > at the lists of statements and to add any statements they can think of
> > to each of the lists.  In addition, please voice your support or
> > opposition to those statements you feel most strongly about (don't feel
> > the need to vote for every statement).
>
> David,
>
> I find it interesting that your tasks do not include advocacy to encourage
> free distribution of data, nor work on
> devising/vetting/promoting/educating
> around appropriate licenses for free geodata.  I originally thought of
> those
> two things as the core of the geodata committee mission.
>
> I think these fall within the aegis of the geodata committee.  It might be
> that no one is particularly interested in pursuing them, in which case
> they
> could be considered "inactive" responsibilities but I don't think they
> should disappear altogether.
>
> Collecting, processing and offering free geodata via various services is
> also of interest, but I think we have seen that this can proceed
> reasonably
> well without a committee to guide it.  In fact, it has pretty much had to
> go underground in order to avoid "Too much wanking keeps things from
> getting done."
>
> /me comments from the sidelines...
>
> Best regards,
> --
>
> ---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
> warmerdam at pobox.com
> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
> and watch the world go round - Rush    | President OSGeo, http://osgeo.org
>
>


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