[Board] Board Meeting July first

[Howard Butler]

"In many respects, open source software and proprietary software are similar in the ways they are developed and used.  "  -- How they're used?  sure.  How they're developed? Hell no.  The whole point of open source software is that its development model provides advantages to developers.

The entire section that feebly attempts to characterize open source and proprietary software development should be ditched.  Deep linking and quoting of other, more nuanced and complete descriptions of the landscape is going to provide much more accurate detail and give the reader places to go to find out more.

The part about OSM is dead wrong.  The ODbL exists *because* the licensing concepts of open source software cannot apply.

projects2 -- typo

"For example, OpenLayers moved from Metacarta to Nokia, and Metacarta and Nokia have quite different ideas about the meaning of the OpenLayers Copyright." 

1) what does this mean?
2) how does it have any bearing on this paper?
3) The *license* of OpenLayers makes Nokia's ideas about open source moot

What is the point of this paper?  To inform the members of OGC?  I find it quite mushy and weak (and factually inaccurate in a number of places), but I am most definitely not the intended audience.  

On Jun 28, 2010, at 6:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:

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> Arnulf.
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> Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote:
>> 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...
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Arnulf.
>> 
>> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2010-07-01
>> 
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