[Board] Press release president's comments

[Frank Warmerdam]

Arnulf Christl wrote:
> 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.
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Arnulf,

I've applied a few edits, but I'm concerned I may have butchered your
intent for the third point.  I adapted it as:

"""
The third area is the most challenging one. It includes bridging between the 
extremes of proprietary businesses and the other extreme of thorough 
volunteerism found in projects like OpenStreetMap - the exponentially growing 
Wiki style map creator project. If it is possible, then OSGeo is the 
organization capable of bridging this gap.
"""

In dropping the mention of OGC I may have made the proprietary extreme
too vague and the volunteerism side is "over heavy" with the specific OSM
example and an explanation of what that is.

Was you intent to find a way of having activities within OSGeo that
run the gamut from predominantly proprietary businesses (presumably with
some open source aspect), through the "middle ground" of commercial businesses
built on open source (ie. for example consultings and integrators like
WhereGroup and DMSG) though to the volunteer/hobbiest activities found in
projects like OSM (and I might add typical of at least some contributions
to projects like GRASS)?  That is, to find a way for folks with these
widely divergent goals and needs to operate within our environment?

Or perhaps you meant to bridge this gap even outside OSGeo (ie. helping
proprietary businesses with no interest in open source?)

Best regards,
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