[OSGeo-Board] so quiet...

[Tyler Mitchell]

My thoughts exactly.  I'm ready to debrief you at the next board
meeting.  Is it possible to set a regular monthly date for meeting?
I've been fairly disconnected for a week and a half with travelling,
but things are now starting to settle down.
I'll pull together an email summary today of some main points.

Tyler

On 12/5/06, Gary Lang <gary.lang at autodesk.com> wrote:
> I was thinking the same thing.
>
> Going over all of this would make for a good board meeting.
>
> Gary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jo Walsh [mailto:jo at frot.org]
> Sent:	Mon 12/4/2006 6:45 PM
> To:	board at board.osgeo.org
> Cc:	
> Subject:	[OSGeo-Board] so quiet...
>
> dear all,
>
> It's been so quiet, that I had to check the mail archives to be sure I
> hadn't been bounced off this list or the discuss list... ;)
>
> Is no news good news? Is this an inevitable seasonal lull?
> (At < 8 hours daily daylight at 51N, waking up is hard to do...)
>
> I get the sense that most of core OSGeo activity is being channeled
> through VisCom these days. I appreciated mpg's last status update of
> VisCom activity to the discuss list. This is all good, but it does
> kind of bypass the more hackerly contingent, people used to 'value'
> being more quantifiable in project activity, download rates etc -
> involvement in a project combining "scratching an itch" and public
> reputation and the scope for more interesting future projects...
>
> Tyler, I hope you've enjoyed your first month in your position as ED.
> I'd love to see a braindump from you about how you feel it's going,
> where you could use support, where you see opportunities for growth
> and collaboration within OSGeo that could be more actively pursued,
> where you see things that really ought to be fixed or re-examined.
>
> Something else I would be interested in seeing is milestones - again,
> that's hard to separate out from the quantifiable - the stuff we can
> get now like website traffic, users and user activity on the wiki;
> the stuff we can get in the nearish future like card-carrying members,
> sponsorship interest and influx etc. But it would be good to have some
> more structured way of thinking about the future, promises to hold
> ourselves (as Board members or as the membership in general) to.
>
> best wishes,
>
>
> jo
>
>
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