[OSGeo-Board] Potential for an Incubation Sprint / OSGeo meetup

[Dave McIlhagga (mobile)]

I share Gary's feelings on this. Having done many outreach discussions re. Open source over the years -- being able to point others in the industry to a real 'entity' in OSGeo is a huge step forward.

Once we get our act together re. Outreach materials (and we will!) This message will only get better and more powerful.

Interesting event -- a significant number of companies represented here who are adopting or are in serious consideration about open source. Some big players you might not expect. Message is key right now to win over those standing on the ledge wondering if they should jump. 

Dave
   

-----Original Message-----
From: "Gary Lang" <gary.lang at autodesk.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 22:41:42 
To:"Frank Warmerdam \(External\)" <warmerdam at pobox.com>,       "Jo Walsh" <jo at frot.org>
Cc:<board at board.osgeo.org>
Subject: RE: [OSGeo-Board] Potential for an Incubation Sprint / OSGeo meetup

Many people came up to us afterwards and said how enlightening the OS panel discussion was. Of possible interest: I think we went a ways towards convincing other companies like Autodesk that maybe, just maybe, they should be moving some of their work out into open source as well. I had two conversations tonight that gave me hope that the wheels are spinning at those companies.
 
 As long as the OSGeo continues to be seen in the current light, many things are possible.
 
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From:   Frank Warmerdam on behalf of Frank Warmerdam (External)
 Sent:   Tue 4/4/2006 9:10 PM
 To:     Jo Walsh
 Cc:     board at board.osgeo.org
 Subject:        Re: [OSGeo-Board] Potential for an Incubation Sprint / OSGeo meetup
 
 Jo Walsh wrote:
 > dear Board,
 >
 > I wanted to add an item to the agenda for this week; the possibility of
 > an OSGeo meetup for protagonists of the projects in Incubation in June.
 > Nothing is as momentum-building as getting people together face to face.
 
 Jo,
 
 I love the idea of an incubation sprint.  My concern would be that June
 is quite late for it.  My hope is that as many as half the projects might
 be out of incubation by then.  At one point you refer to a Incubation/Stack
 sprint.  What other ideas did you have that might be accomplished?
 
 If we were to have an incubation sprint, I think it would be important
 to lock everyone (all project reps) in a room for a couple days, with
 Rich, Daniel and perhaps some input from other interested parties to
 hammer out what it means to be a foundation project, and what degree
 of "foundationness" we want to try and attain in common.
 
 > But if this is an idea the rest of the Board would be interested in
 > supporting, then the main question I have would become more pragmatic:
 > Is there potential financial resource within OSGeo to support travel
 > expenses to more meetings this year? Would this be a balancing act at best?
 
 I think the foundation could bring forward modest resources to facilitate
 a face to face meeting if needed.
 
 > (I was interested to hear of 3 board members on the same panel today
 > at http://www.locationintelligence.net/agenda/: <http://www.locationintelligence.net/agenda/>  , I hope the advocacy
 > went well and that LI was a good thing for the Cause, I'd love to hear
 > more feedback about the crowd's reaction there, between the 3 of you
 > there must be a very convincing case for "Why Should the CXO Care
 > About Open Source Geospatial Products?")
 
 I too would be interested to hear one or more reports on how this went!
 
 Best regards,
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