[Board] Re: Title for opening plenary

[Peter Batty]

I would second Tyler's comments. We are trying to attract quite a few new
folks to the conference and I think in the opening session we should focus
mainly on the things that are going well, the growth in usage of open
source, etc etc. Of course I think it's okay to say there are more things we
(OSGeo) would like to do, but I'd rather not say we don't address the needs
of larger organizations in industry and government ... I'm sure there is
more we could do there, but certainly our software does address the needs of
those large organizations and more and more are using it.

So overall I'd focus on summarizing progress and make it positive, and more
briefly raise questions that we should discuss during the conference about
areas where OSGeo could improve.

One other thing just to mention ... we now have Paul Ramsey in the third
slot in the opening session with a talk called "Why do you do that? An
exploration of open source business models", in case that factors into your
thoughts on what to cover or not cover.

Cheers,
    Peter.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Tyler Mitchell <tmitchell at osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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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