[Board] Objections? - California GIO Letter - Monday

[Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)]

Looking good to me.

Tyler

Brian Hamlin wrote:
> TO: Michael Byrne, GIO
> Office of the State Chief Information Officer
> RE: ARRA Broadband Mapping Architecture Comment
>
> Mr. Byrne -
>
> California is filing or has filed a State Plan for its implementation 
> of the ARRA Broadband Initiative mapping requirement.
>
> You may be pleased to know that the California Chapter of OSGeo is 
> taking the lead in the US for OSGeo multi-national, and intiating 
> dialog at the Federal level strongly affirming the need for Open Geo 
> Data and public access. Further, OSGeo is writing a one page white 
> paper on architectural considerations for repository and revision 
> control of broadband mapping geo data.
>
> It would be my pleasure to include your office in whatever way you 
> deemed appropriate. I believe that with a new Federal committment to 
> transparent government and public access to information coming from 
> the White House directly, that there is an increasing opportunity for 
> Open Source software and Open Standards geo data in the rapidly 
> approaching implementation of the ARRA Broadband mapping objectives.
>
> As you know, OSGeo is the leading, on-the-ground, open source 
> geospatial software development organisation worldwide. We are an 
> international nonprofit [US 501(c)3 pending] comprising more than a 
> dozen mature geospatial software projects built by more than 500 
> developers from the United States and around the world. As a 
> coalition, OSGeo holds a unique role in advocacy of open standarads 
> and open source, in a world where industry consolidation has produced 
> a very small handful of huge private firms, with the inevitable market 
> tensions associated with maintaining their positions.
>
> We believe that OSGeo is very much in line with the spirit and intent 
> of the push for transparent government and public access science. As 
> such there may be a special opportunity to raise the bar for the kind 
> of technology initiative as presented in the ARRA Broadband Initiative 
> now and in the future.
>
> sincerely
>
> Brian Hamlin
> OSGeo California Chapter
>
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