[OSGeo-Board] opening and organizing

[Chris Holmes]

Gary Lang wrote:
> 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.
Well, I'd say this is a sub project of the publicity and visibility 
committee.

> 
> 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"
Isn't this kind of thing what the integrated task trackers of collabnet 
are for?  So the visibility committee would make a task about where 2.0? 
  And it's up to them to keep the appropriate people in the loop?

Chris

> 
> 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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