<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Adam wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Awards - personally not my thing and (IMO) about the last thing a<br>community org should focus on. I've just returned from a couple of<br>years in Norway dealing with a community that is strongly cult of<br>personality (rockstar/award/??) based, and it sucks. Where was the<br>community discussion about awards in OSGeo Oceania?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I feel similarly. I think it's nice to recognise people's successes and wins, but industry body awards feel like an echo chamber to me, reinforcing in-group relationships. I've always admired OSGeo for its focus on reaching the broader community, creating an inviting and open space where anyone can participate regardless of affiliations.</div><div><br></div><div>The APSEA awards seem like particularly odd bedfellows for OSGeo Oceania... despite the "Asia-Pacific" name, they're predominantly (entirely?) Australian. Not making a criticism but it doesn't seem in step with OSGeo Oceania's community.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Ohyeah, an MoU *has to be* public and reviewable by the community.<br>OSGeo's MoU with OGC is a good example of this practice.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1</div></div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 08:14, Martin Tomko <<a href="mailto:tomkom@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">tomkom@unimelb.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Oh, sorry – you mean VGI? That was me the academic speaking - Volunteered Geographic Information, e.g., OSM, or any other geo content (e.g., Mapillary Cam data, or OpenDrone Map,
or other) that is volunteered by people, as opposed to a “super” category - User Generated Content, which is any stuff that may be gathered from people out there, even unknowingly (some call this Coerced Geographic Content …)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Adam Steer <<a href="mailto:adam.d.steer@gmail.com" target="_blank">adam.d.steer@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, 30 March 2023 at 10:05 am<br>
<b>To: </b>Martin Tomko <<a href="mailto:tomkom@unimelb.edu.au" target="_blank">tomkom@unimelb.edu.au</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>OSGeo Oceania Board <<a href="mailto:oceania-board@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">oceania-board@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, OSgeo - Oceania <<a href="mailto:oceania@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">oceania@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Oceania-Board] [OSGeo Oceania] Geospatial Council of Australia - thoughts?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Unfortunately unsurprising, I hope we can all work together to be better.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:11pt">Noncompetition for grants is a great addition to an MoU, alongside preventing channeling of OSGeo, OSM, HOT etc (global) funds to non-open activities. Leading naturally to the principle
of open data from open-branded activity; and hackathons resulting in PRs to existing projects rather than fork -> rebrand -> claim.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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