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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The names we had before are below. I’d like to see some folks from
Refractions, Intergraph, and other like-minded people there.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>All those willing to be in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Phoenix</st1:City></st1:place>
on Feb. 3 raise your hands.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3
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(raises hand)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The signers of the open letter:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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line-height:16.5pt'><font size=1 face=Arial><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Steve Lime, Chair, MapServer Technical Steering Committee
(MTSC)<br>
Yewondwossen Assefa, MTSC Member<br>
Howard Butler, MTSC Member<br>
Daniel Morissette, MTSC Member<br>
Perry Nacionales, MTSC Member<br>
Frank Warmerdam, MTSC Member<br>
Tom Burk, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Minnesota</st1:PlaceName></st1:place><br>
David McIlhagga, DM Solutions Group<br>
Tyler Mitchell<br>
Claude Philipona, Camptocamp SA and FOSS4G 2006 organizing committee<br>
Gary Lang, Autodesk<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
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discuss-bounces@lists.mapserverfoundation.org
[mailto:discuss-bounces@lists.mapserverfoundation.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Mike Davis<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, December 22, 2005
1:47 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Frank Warmerdam (External)<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b>
discuss@lists.mapserverfoundation.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [MSF-Discuss]
Foundation naming</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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I really think we need to empower some people to get in a room<br>
and come up with a coherent plan that they find reasonable, and <br>
then bring that back to the community for comment.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Excellent idea, if only we all lived in the same town... :-) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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