[Board] Press release president's comments

[Arnulf Christl]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Arnulf Christl wrote:
>> Fellow boars,
>> please read this press release: 
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Press_Release_Board_2008
>>
>> I would like to extend my personal comment to say the following:
>>
>>
>> [BOF]
>> Arnulf Christl explains, "I'm pleased to be able to help in my new 
>> role as OSGeo President. I have three mail goals on my personal 
>> agenda, these include further supporting the emergence of local 
>> chapters and supporting them in organizing meetings and conferences 
>> that complement our global FOSS4G effort. The second area is to 
>> improve our support for businesses using and supporting Open Source 
>> Geospatial software. Our organization is now so strong and healthy 
>> that we need to tell the world about it in the lobby (pressure group 
>> work, etc. - please add some correct terminology). The third area is 
>> the most challenging one. It includes conciliating between the 
>> extremes of proprietary businesses that dominate the OGC and the other 
>> extreme of thorough volunteerism(?) that rules still exponentially 
>> growing OpenStreetMap. If at all then OSGeo is the organization 
>> capable of bridging this gap/gorge/chasm/."
>> [EOF]
> 
> Arnulf,
> 
> I think presening your three pronged vision is good, though some care
> should be taken in how it is presented, and I think some iterative
> wordsmithing may be appropriate.
> 
> I don't think we ought to name OGC as being dominated by proprietary
> businesses.  I think we can get across the idea of a range of community
> members from proprietary software vendors at one extreme, through to
> the volunteerism of communities like openstreetmap without saying something
> that might be construed as being a negative view of OGC.
> 
> If there is no other rapid negative comment, I'd suggest you push this
> into the wiki, and then we go through a bit of iterative editing there.
> 
> It's a bit unconventional to say something non-vacuous in a press release,
> but I suppose there is no reason we can't buck the trend.
> 
> Best regards,

All,
as you can imagine I like this approach. :-) 

Here you go:

http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Press_Release_Board_2008#New_President

Best regards, 
Arnulf.