[Board] Re: Title for opening plenary
Arnulf Christl
arnulf.christl at metaspatial.net
Fri Jun 10 10:08:30 PDT 2011
Folks,
I got the idea, makes sense.
The below abstract makes sense for our current board task anyway, so we
might consider this more as a home work for all of us. We should
formulate some answers in the next weeks. Maybe we should even schedule
for a deadline, as we know this is the best (if not only) way we
function. :-)
I'll try to whip up something more appropriate, but will need a few more
hours. Feel free to use anything general if you want to launch the web
site now.
Cheers,
Arnulf.
On 06/09/2011 10:36 PM, Peter Batty wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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
> >
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