[OSGeo-Board] opening and organizing

[Gary Lang]

I was ambiguous. By "project" I meant Committees and the like, not
MapServer, GeoTools, etc.

So Committees are one sets of projects. Another would be stuff like
"Where 2.0 Approach".

This last one shows some of the problem - Nat Torkington called me this
morning and among other things asked me to speak at the conference, and
only by accident through our conversation discovered I was on the OSGeo
board. We should coordinate on Where 2.0 as one of the OSGeo projects.

There may be other things.

So what I'm looking to do and will do if no one else is, is to create a
table that shows fields such as:

"Task/Issue" "Owner" "Date Due" "Description" "Communication needed"

Etc.

Gary

 
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Holmes [mailto:cholmes at openplans.org] 
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 4:08 PM
To: board at board.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] opening and organizing

There's this: http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Committees

I wasn't planning on it.  If I have time I'll try.  I'm playing with 
table formatting right now.  Any ideas for what fields we want?

So far I have 'name', 'affiliations', and 'about'.  I'll put in lat/long

now.  Do we want email addresses here?  I don't want people getting 
spammed, and putting your email public can lead to that often.

Chris

Gary Lang wrote:
> So Chris, are you going to create a OSGeo Project list as part of your
> exercise?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Markus Neteler [mailto:neteler.osgeo at gmail.com] 
> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:05 PM
> To: board at board.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Board] opening and organizing
> 
> 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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