Frank,<br><br>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.<br><br>
David<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Warmerdam</b> <<a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
David William Bitner wrote:<br>> At the last meeting of the Geodata Committee, we talked about refining<br>> the mission of the Public Geospatial Data Project. In order to assist<br>> this process, I have created a wiki (
<br>> <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project_Update_Mission">http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project_Update_Mission</a>)<br>> with a list of statements under four categories: Purpose, Tasks,
<br>> Beliefs, and Hurdles. I would like to encourage everyone to please look<br>> at the lists of statements and to add any statements they can think of<br>> to each of the lists. In addition, please voice your support or
<br>> opposition to those statements you feel most strongly about (don't feel<br>> the need to vote for every statement).<br><br>David,<br><br>I find it interesting that your tasks do not include advocacy to encourage
<br>free distribution of data, nor work on devising/vetting/promoting/educating<br>around appropriate licenses for free geodata. I originally thought of those<br>two things as the core of the geodata committee mission.<br>
<br>I think these fall within the aegis of the geodata committee. It might be<br>that no one is particularly interested in pursuing them, in which case they<br>could be considered "inactive" responsibilities but I don't think they
<br>should disappear altogether.<br><br>Collecting, processing and offering free geodata via various services is<br>also of interest, but I think we have seen that this can proceed reasonably<br>well without a committee to guide it. In fact, it has pretty much had to
<br>go underground in order to avoid "Too much wanking keeps things from<br>getting done."<br><br>/me comments from the sidelines...<br><br>Best regards,<br>--<br>---------------------------------------+--------------------------------------
<br>I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, <a href="mailto:warmerdam@pobox.com">warmerdam@pobox.com</a><br>light and sound - activate the windows | <a href="http://pobox.com/~warmerdam">http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
</a><br>and watch the world go round - Rush | President OSGeo, <a href="http://osgeo.org">http://osgeo.org</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>************************************<br>David William Bitner