[Board] Anything for discussion here?

[Michael P. Gerlek]

The article Jo cited sparked (incited?) a lot of commentary in blogville.  Much of the discourse got derailed by the tactical issue of whether Git should be allowed - the bigger issue is really, what do foundations have to offer up at the strategic level?

 

More discussion here:

  http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2011/11/koha-tells-us-we-need-foundations/index.htm

  http://webmink.com/2011/11/30/foundations-babies-and-bathwater/

 

Definitely things to think about for our F2F!

 

-mpg

 

From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jo Cook
Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 7:07 AM
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Subject: [Board] Anything for discussion here?

 

Hi All,

 

I guess that most people caught this article a couple of weeks ago: http://www.mikealrogers.com/posts/apache-considered-harmful.html

 

It got me wondering about the way that foundations need to change with time, and whether we should be taking on board any of it with regards to OSGeo. Disclaimer- I'm not asking because I think we're going down the same lines, I'm genuinely just using the article as a springboard for discussion. 

 

My two pence worth- the point about lowering of barriers to entry is an interesting one. Projects don't necessarily need someone big  to provide infrastructure these days, they can do it in an adhoc way- so in that world, what does OSGeo do for the projects? What should we be doing? 

 

I think we have a wider remit in some ways- in that we're trying to provide educational materials and foster local chapters- I don't imagine Apache does a lot of that these days!

 

Anyhow, just wondering out loud really- further thoughts appreciated!

 

All the best

 

Jo


 

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