[Board] Open Source and Open Standards White Paper

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

Folks,
as discussed on IRC we have further developed the article on Open Source 
and Open Standards:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:Open_Source_and_Open_Standards

It would be great if you could give it a pass and maybe hit edit and add 
a comma, fix a typo or change wording that you think needs a change (if 
only to indicate that you have read it - please... :-). For the official 
public text we might not need the introduction naming Carl and me as 
authors and the mentioned texts. I would be happy if it just said the 
OGC and OSGeo Foundation did this collaboratively.

If you are fine with it please indicate that you will support a motion 
along this line:

"I (Arnulf) motion to accept the text on "Open Source and Open 
Standards" Version 1.0 as a White Paper to be published jointly with the 
OGC. I recommend to revisit this document in a yearly manner and update 
as seen needed. "


Ideally we could get replies and edits from board members until the end 
of the week, so that we can vote on this motion over the weekend and be 
done with it beginning of next week.

No harm if you vote a -1 immediately, just indicate what it is that 
makes you think we should not go ahead.

Thanks for your contribution.

Have fun,
Arnulf.

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