[Board] Some food for thought from Directions magazine ahead of our board meeting

[Jo Cook]

> If there's anything that's unfortunate, it's that the OSGeo mission has
> either been
> so poorly understood or so nebulous that OpenGeo and OSGeo don't have
> differentiation in the eyes of people who are familiar with the industry.
> That
> is an issue that should be fixed. But to snipe at the choice of a domain
> name as a
> primary cause for this is in poor taste. OpenGeo is run by a non-profit
> organization;
> this was the entire original *intent* for .org domains, this isn't even a
> case where a
> corporation is mis-using the TLD in its original sense, so let's
> concentrate on
> real issues instead -- issues like the fact that OSGeo's message is so
> poorly
> delivered that it's not distinct from the commercially-targeted offerings
> that OpenGeo
> has.
>
> -- Chris
>
> I totally agree with Chris here. From an outsiders perspective, none of
the headlining news to come out of OSGeo recently (eg post FOSS4G) has been
good, no wonder people are wondering what's going on. Worrying about the
distinction between OSGeo and OpenGeo is a distraction at best, and has a
lot more to do with our failings at pushing forward any kind of positive
message recently, rather than anything OpenGeo have done. I think we need
to concentrate on the email that Peter sent round, and focus on some
constructive things that we can discuss (and who knows, even agree on and
more forward) at the F2F.

Jo
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