[OSGeo-Board] opening and organizing

[Gary Lang]

This is why I asked the question I did this morning. Every so often I
get an  email saying "I've started a committee" or "I've started this"
and so on. 

There's little coordination with us of many of these items. So even us
board members are having a tough time tracking everything. It is not
surprising that the public feels the same.

So what I want to do is list the projects we're working on and the
status of them. This is basic project management. If you want to do it
in the Wiki, great. 

Gary


-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Holmes [mailto:cholmes at openplans.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:01 PM
To: board at board.osgeo.org
Subject: [OSGeo-Board] opening and organizing

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