[OSGeo-Board] Board Nomination email (please review)

[Gary Lang]

A meta question:

a) who is keeping track of all of these committees?
b) who is tracking their progress
c) do we have a list of these projects that we've agreed to set up and
pursue?

If board people send me a list of the projects/committees they're
working on, I'll roll them up and we can start tracking them.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Warmerdam [mailto:fwarmerdam at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Frank
Warmerdam (External)
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 7:38 AM
To: board at board.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] Board Nomination email (please review)

Arnulf Christl (CCGIS) wrote:
>> To contact people I would like a full membership list with contact
>> info.  (Screw lat/long coordinates, if we can't even collect a list
of
>> email address for members!)  Where will this list live?
> 
> In a WFS-T - what a question. :-) We need to get a machine that is
fast
> fast fast has bandwidth to spare and is fully sponsored. Then it takes
us
> one day to throw the whole SDI stack on it and get the list running as
it
> would be worth for an os*GEO* Foundation. Something like the GRASS,
> Mapbender, or PostgreSQL user maps that has been sent around. Open it
to
> members (later when we have conneted permissions with CN to ever
member,
> sponsor and friend).

Arnulf,

I would like the foundation to be provisioned with two or three boxes
outside of collabnet that we can use for a testing environment, and also
for "demonstrator" types of stuff.  I had been putting off pushing for
this for the time being since we had lots of other things to worry
about,
but perhaps we could look at that relatively soon.

Does the board have any thoughts on when we would like to address adding
a testing environment and other outside-collabnet system resources?  I
would be inclined to start a "systems committee" to be responsible for
admining such machines, But there are a bunch of questions with regard
to
selecting a vendor, being able to make payments and so forth that would
need to be addressed before we can do this properly.  I'm not sure if
this is the right time for this or not.

I'm not so sure I am in a rush to have members in a WFS-T though I'm not
adverse to that either.

> Those voting members who don't enter their lan/lots within one week
after
> publishing are expelled from the community for imcompetent/lazyness or
> something like that. 

I'll assume there is some hyperbole in this.

Best regards,
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