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I'd like to belatedly add a +1 vote for Bruce as a mentor.<br>
<br>
As I've worked closely over the years with Bruce on both OSGeo
marketing activities and also in a professional sense on OSGeo
related work, I'd like to share a few insights into why Bruce would
make a excellent mentor.<br>
<br>
Bruce's commitment to the vast array of tasks he took on in making
FOSS4G 2009 a success has already been mentioned. He has also been
prominent in promoting OSGeo in the Australian and New Zealand area.<br>
<br>
What hasn't been mentioned is that Bruce's opinion counts in high
government decision making circles, partly due to his position as a
lead technical architect and manager, within a lead Australian
national agency responsible for monitoring weather, environment and
climate change (which is very important for our dry continent with a
lot to loose from climate change). Bruce was appointed to this role
due to his strong technical and management experience. You can
understand why he has been appointed to this job when you read some
of his emails to OSGeo lists, which usually combine insightful
discussion about both technical and business aspects of Open Source
software (in the Geospatial space).<br>
<br>
As such, I consider OSGeo lucky to have someone such as Bruce as a
champion, and also that he would make an excellent incubation
mentor.<br>
<br>
<br>
On 22/11/2011 4:05 PM, Bruce Bannerman wrote:
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style="font-size:11pt">That’s fine Daniel,<br>
<br>
I’m glad that we do have ‘a high bar’. Our desire in the end
should be to get quality projects coming out of Incubation.<br>
<br>
In addition, there is certainly nothing wrong with questioning
potential conflicts of interest. It is in fact a desirable
part of the process to have a clear statement from mentors, so
that appropriate assessments can be made.<br>
<br>
Bruce<br>
<br>
<br>
On 22/11/11 2:06 PM, "Daniel Morissette" <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="dmorissette@mapgears.com">dmorissette@mapgears.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span
style="font-size:11pt">On 11-11-21 06:11 PM, Bruce Bannerman
wrote:<br>
><br>
> @Daniel,<br>
><br>
> By way of background:<br>
><br>
> I am a former developer. However, it has been many
(>5) years since I<br>
> have cut code in anger. I have spent a number of years
in sysadmin,<br>
> solutions and enterprise architecture. In addition, I
have managed a<br>
> very diverse development team for the last few years.
I’m currently<br>
> managing a large and complex platform migration to RHEL
with significant<br>
> (>350) bespoke applications and associated
databases. I have a diverse<br>
> spatial background with qualifications, skills and
experience in<br>
> cartography, surveying, GIS, spatial and image
analysis. In all, I have<br>
> around 30 years experience in the spatial / IT domains.<br>
><br>
> Granted, I have not spent time on a specific OSGeo
Project. However, I<br>
> have been part of the OSGeo Community for over five
years and the<br>
> broader open source community for ten+ years. I do have
a good feel for<br>
> how OSGeo would like to run projects from the many
lists that I<br>
> subscribe to and participate in (e.g. Discuss); from my
two years<br>
> helping to organise FOSS4G-2009; and five years helping
to establish<br>
> OSGeo-AustNZ. I have also read and been inspired by Ken
Fogel’s<br>
> excellent book [1]. For the OSGeo bits that I haven’t
picked up yet<br>
> through my career, my time as a manager; and my time in
FOSS, I’m sure<br>
> that Jody will keep me honest and on the right track.<br>
><br>
<br>
Hi Bruce, and all,<br>
<br>
I guess it would have been easier if I just +1'd the
decision without<br>
asking any question, but since I raised the bar I feel that
I have to<br>
justify myself now for having expressed higher requirements
than the<br>
rest of the group, so here we go...<br>
<br>
(please do not read this as a rant... just an explanation of
a point of<br>
view)<br>
<br>
Hopefully you all realize that it is nothing about Bruce
personally, but<br>
more that as a rule of thumb I think that until one has been
involved in<br>
an OSGeo project for a while it is hard to understand the
reasons behind<br>
the way some things are done, and to properly relay those
reasons and<br>
ways to operate. BTW, I never suggested that a mentor had to
be a<br>
developer (others may have suggested that, but not me)... I
personally<br>
believe that any type of contributor (e.g. a docs
contributor, QA<br>
specialist, project manager or power user) could do a great
job too if<br>
they've been involved in a project for a while, hopefully as
contributor.<br>
<br>
My take is that the reason why we want mentors during
incubation is not<br>
just to have one sit on a mailing list, but to actually have
that person<br>
actively advise the project on the way to adjust their
processes to meet<br>
OSGeo's expectations. (Once again, I am not suggesting that
Bruce would<br>
"just sit on a mailing list"... this is my rule of thumb for
any<br>
mentor... and it's just mine since I don't think it's
documented anywhere)<br>
<br>
I didn't write -1, but +0... so it was not an objection, but
a weak<br>
support since I don't know Bruce personally and the main
arguments that<br>
I received in favor of him were related to his hard work on
the<br>
conferences, which while they demonstrate very strong
commitment to<br>
OSGeo, didn't demonstrate direct project involvement and
didn't fully<br>
meet my criteria for an *incubation mentor*.<br>
<br>
Of course if I had known you (Bruce) personally I would have
known about<br>
your strong IT background and would have had less questions.
After your<br>
response (thank you for taking the time to provide so much
details) I am<br>
confident that your exceptional commitment to OSGeo combined
with your<br>
IT experience will help you go through this exercise, and
Jody can<br>
fill-in for the rest if needed.<br>
<br>
Thank you for your offer to mentor and all your volunteer
work for OSGeo<br>
BTW. We need more people like you, and I hope my tough
questions are not<br>
discouraging anyone from getting involved.<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
--<br>
Daniel Morissette<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.mapgears.com/">http://www.mapgears.com/</a><br>
Provider of Professional MapServer Support since 2000<br>
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