[OSGeo-Board] opening and organizing

[Markus Neteler]

Chris,

+1 from me!

There is also
 http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Roadmap
which should be continuously populated.

Markus

On 3/7/06, Chris Holmes <cholmes at openplans.org> wrote:
> Hey all, so I've got a bit of feedback on OSGEO things.
>
> People are having a hard time figuring out a) what's going on, and b)
> how they can help out.
>
> The first feedback came by way of Tyler, who had no idea what the board
> has been up to.  We've been moving fast obviously, and making a lot of
> decisions, but no one else has really known what's going on.
>
> A nice thing to do would be perhaps a regular status update, on the
> activities of the board.  If that's a bit much, we could simply point to
> the minutes after each board meeting, just send an email after things
> get posted.
>
> The other feedback came by way of the GeoTools meeting today.  They were
> asking for a guided tour on irc to show them around.  I think a much
> better solution is to make a good page explaining such things.
>
> At a minimum I think we need links to the projects/committees to be
> involved in, the wiki (and how to sub to changes), and perhaps a howto
> on working with the collabnet infrastructure.  A basic 'getting started'
> page.  Ideally we could get it up soon and also send a 'welcome' message
> to our new members, point them at it as how they can get involved.
>
> I'd also like a place for members to post the paragraph about
> themselves.  Ideally one could just fill out their collabnet profile
> with a paragraph about themselves, but I see no way to do that (as seems
> to be the case with most things I'd like to do in collabnet).  I'm happy
> to throw up a wiki where members can update their information for now.
>
> I have a free evening, so I could spend some time on a couple of wiki
> pages.  But in general I think we need to write a bit more to the
> discuss list, no one seems to really know what's going on.
>
> best regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
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