[OSGeo-Board] FAQ feedback

[Rich Steele]

I made some edits to the FAQ as well.  Rather than summarize all of
them, I'll point you to the diff here (love that wiki):

http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php?title=OSGeo_FAQ&diff=1729&oldid=17
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One change I wasn't sure about was having the FAQ simply refer to 45
voting members, rather than the 21 + 24 process (which might be
confusing to newcomers to the site).  Since the voting closed today, my
thought was that we can finalize the "final interim" membership of 45
ASAP, and then simply refer to a list of those 45 members in the FAQ.
You will notice I added a placeholder for a link to the final membership
list.

If others disagree with this approach we can change it back.

And I agree with Chris that the FAQ looks great.  Nice job everyone.

-Rich 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Holmes [mailto:cholmes at openplans.org]
> Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 1:29 PM
> To: board at board.osgeo.org
> Subject: [OSGeo-Board] FAQ feedback
> 
> The FAQ looks great, really nice job on it.
> 
> I made a couple changes in the member questions, attempting to
emphasize
> more that anyone can become a part of it, that 'the members' are not
> just the voting members.  Please review in case you feel I worded it a
> bit strongly.
> 
> I made another random correction, changing suitable -> suitably.
> 
> But yes, this looks really good.  It would be really nice if we had
> this, along with the ability for new members to easily 'join' the site
> in time for the first press release, so that those who are driven to
the
> site by the press release can become a part of what we're doing, and
so
> we're seen as open from the very start.
> 
> So I'm +1 one on a motion to put the FAQ on the front page.  If others
> can review we can actually draw up that motion and put it up soon.
> 
> best regards,
> 
> Chris
> 
> --
> Chris Holmes
> The Open Planning Project
> thoughts at: http://cholmes.wordpress.com