[Board] Re: Title for opening plenary

[Tyler Mitchell]

The lightning talk style overview "state of OSGeo" talk I gave before went over well.  A bunch of encouraging stats, a few challenges a few goals to aim for  - keeping it light made it easy even for folks who don't care about OSGeo to learn a bit and sit through the talk too.  I would tend to leave the heavier discussions for the AGM where everyone enjoys discussing the deeper challenges and direction.

Just my thoughts,
Tyler

On 2011-06-09, at 8:24 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:

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> Peter Batty wrote:
>> Hi Arnulf, sorry for the short notice but I wondered if you could give me a
>> title for your talk in the opening session. I guess "The State of OSGeo"
>> would be an option, but let me know what you prefer. And perhaps a short
>> abstract, a couple of sentences would be fine. If there's any way of getting
>> this to me tomorrow (Thursday) that would be much appreciated.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>>    Peter.
> 
> Hi Peter,
> "The State of OSGeo" if fine.
> 
> One idea might be to present the OSGeo "business plan" for 2012? We do
> not have it yet but we will have one in time for FOSS4G.
> 
> 
> Board,
> I include you to give your opinion. This is a first idea for my FOSS4G
> keynote as president of OSGeo and I would like to get broad feedback and
> not do something specific of my own (this will happen automagically
> during the talk anyway... :-) This is really on short notice so please
> hit reply and then take a minute to consider and comment.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> Now - what abstract could that be? I'll give it a spontaneous try:
> 
> OSGeo has come of age. The structure of the foundation is clear and our
> mission and goals are defined. We have achieved what we set out to do,
> everything runs smoothely. Sure - lots of things can still be improved
> and there is a never ending stream of great new ideas but all in all we
> are headed in the right direction and - humbly - doing a great job.
> 
> Now what? This is a question that an organisation as a system cannot
> answer on its own. It needs to be worked out by the community supporting
> the organization. And this community is getting diverser by the day. The
> initial focus was set by the developers of well known FOSS4G projects,
> mostly supported by small companies and power users. Over the past years
> more and more interest was signalled by larger organizations, both from
> the public sector and industry. But OSGeo has not yet formed itself to
> be able to address their needs. One question we may (or must) ask
> ourselves is whether we want to address the needs of these larger
> organizations. Nota Bene: this is not people anymore but full fledged
> systems and thus asks a lot of different things of us.
> 
> This presentation will show several paths to evolve OSGeo and intends to
> trigger some thought in you (the attendees of this conference) as to
> what you want OSGeo to become. We are a collective of experts in a small
> but deep niche, the geospatial domain. And everyone is watching us as
> the relevance of location - Geo - and Open Source is becoming more and
> more obvious for so many processes.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Too long? Think a different message would make more sense? Feel free to
> amend, hack, cirticize or just take it as is.
> 
> Best regards,
> Arnulf
> 
> - --
> Nothing makes sense, except we make it.
> http://www.metaspatial.net
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