[Board] Board Meeting July first

[Jeff McKenna]

Arnulf,

If OSGeo is to be associated with this document, I believe there is a 
missing section: as the OGC has specific sections such as "The OGC's 
position regarding open source software", we should also include a 
section on OSGeo, such as "How OSGeo promotes open standards", and/or 
"How OSGeo promotes open source software", and/or "How OSGeo promotes 
open data".

-jeff



Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:
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> Board,
> the next regular board meeting is on Thursday (1st of July) this week. I
> have added an agenda [1], please feel free to add items. Also observe
> the timing, we start at 17:00 UTC.
> 
> One potential motion needs up front work to be done. The OGC plans to
> publish a White Paper on Open Standards and Open Source. They asked me
> whether I could help with the Open Source perspective which I did. Over
> the last weeks we jointly prepared the paper and I feel confident that
> it is good to go now. The result of this work can be found in the
> attached document. In preparation for this meeting I ask you to read and
> comment or edit the attached document. It is not intended for broader
> dissemination just yet which is why I did not send this mail to Discuss
> or Standards.
> 
> Please go through this paper and consider in what role you would like to
> have OSGeo appear / associate with it. OGC would be happy to publish
> this document as a joint White Paper which would give it most authority
> with the intended audiences. OSGeo could also just be mentioned as a
> reviewer or collaborator or any other form you consider useful.
> 
> It would be great to have discussions *before* the actual board meeting
> on this list so that we can proceed to have a motion on the floor to
> vote on.
> 
> Please let this list know if you *cannot* make it to the next meeting as
> we will need quorum to go ahead. Summer time and associated leaves are
> already looming ahead...
>