[MSF-Discuss] Foundation naming

[Dave McIlhagga]

Dave & DM Guys raise our hands.

(back to christmas / new years holidays now ...)

Dave



Stephen Lime wrote:
> Hand raised...
> 
> On Dec 22, 2005, at 7:25 PM, Gary Lang wrote:
> 
> 
>     Question: Are the signers of the open letter thought to be good
>     representatives of the MapServer community? If so, I’d like to
>     suggest that we reconstitute that meeting, and open it up to more
>     people. I propose that we meet on February 3.
>      
>     The names we had before are below. I’d like to see some folks from
>     Refractions, Intergraph, and other like-minded people there.
>      
>     All those willing to be in Phoenix on Feb. 3 raise your hands.
>      
>      
>     Gary (raises hand)
>      
>      
>     The signers of the open letter:
>     Steve Lime, Chair, MapServer Technical Steering Committee (MTSC)
>     Yewondwossen Assefa, MTSC Member
>     Howard Butler, MTSC Member
>     Daniel Morissette, MTSC Member
>     Perry Nacionales, MTSC Member
>     Frank Warmerdam, MTSC Member
>     Tom Burk, University of Minnesota
>     David McIlhagga, DM Solutions Group
>     Tyler Mitchell
>     Claude Philipona, Camptocamp SA and FOSS4G 2006 organizing committee
>     Gary Lang, Autodesk
>      
> 
> 
>     *From:* discuss-bounces at lists.mapserverfoundation.org
>     [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.mapserverfoundation.org] *On Behalf Of
>     *Mike Davis
>     *Sent:* Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:47 PM
>     *To:* Frank Warmerdam (External)
>     *Cc:* discuss at lists.mapserverfoundation.org
>     *Subject:* Re: [MSF-Discuss] Foundation naming
> 
>     I would like to enable smaller contributions, despite the fact that
>     the majority will probably come from larger coorperate sponsership. 
>     For instance I have a very small side business and would be very
>     interested in contributing an anual donation (roughly equivilant to
>     the maintainance fee of a certain Internet Mapping Software). 
>     Developing a way to recognize the contributions (financial or
>     technical) of smaller doners can really help keep interest up (just
>     ask PBS)
> 
> 
>         I really think we need to empower some people to get in a room
>         and come up with a coherent plan that they find reasonable, and
>         then bring that back to the community for comment.
> 
>      
>     Excellent idea, if only we all lived in the same town... :-)
> 
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