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<p>Maria, OSGeo UN Committee, OSGeoLive team,</p>
<p>Great initiative, I'm very supportive.</p>
<p>I'm excited to see OSGeoLive engaged prominently in the criteria.
I think that OSGeoLive has the potential to be a great asset to
the education community and this is an excellent initiative to
fast track this.</p>
<p>Have you been talking with someone from the OSGeoLive team about
the practical implementation? (Angelos would be a good start).
There are a few things that I think need to be thought through:</p>
<p>* OSGeoLive is currently space constrained to our distribution
medium. Typically a 4 Gig or 8 Gig USB. Large teaching datasets
could cause us challenges. We have options to address this, but it
is something we should consider up front.</p>
<p>* OSGeoLive has remained a healthy project for 8 years in part
because we have ensured our cost of maintenance doesn't exceed our
volunteer capacity. We need to think through how can maintain any
material created, and how we can keep maintenance requirements to
a minimum.<br>
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Re: evaluation criteria:<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 29/3/18 10:45 pm, Maria Antonia
Brovelli wrote:<br>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Evaluation criteria:</span></p>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: decimal; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Proposer is </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an OSGeo Charter Member </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"></span></span></li>
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* I'd suggest this be changed to "has demonstrable experience within
the OSGeo community". One of our best technical contributors to
OSGeoLive, who regularly also gave great council, as well as writing
very good documentation, was someone who shunned titles and has
never signed up to be an OSGeo Charter member. (As I write this, I
think he'd be a good candidate for this project - if he could be
tempted). There are others like him. They shouldn't be excluded from
applying.<br>
On the other hand, there are some OSGeo Charter members who have
done little after joining. I believe creating a "honey-pot" will
lead to people applying for charter membership for personal benefit
instead of altruistic reasons.
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* I question the purpose of this? If you are trying to increase
young people applying, then an age break at 40 doesn't help the
struggling end of the age spectrum. (I'd be more inclined to make a
break at say 25).<br>
I think you will find older people, will self select themselves out
based on their typically higher pay grade.<br>
I'd be inclined to remove this criteria all together.<br>
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