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

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Venka:

I have heard a few time about the perceived lack of diversity on the board.  The latest elected charter members I think reflects a change there (it would be nice if someone could run some statistics on that) -- beyond that, can you make some specific suggestions as to how we might address your concerns?

-mpg


> -----Original Message-----
> From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Venkatesh Raghavan
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 6:34 PM
> To: board at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Board] Some food for thought from Directions magazine ahead of our board meeting
> 
> Chris and all,
> ....
> On 2012/01/05 20:21, christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:
> > 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.
> I agree with your statement about OSGeo's message being
> poorly delivered. The delivery could be improved by having an
> OSGeo Board that is representative of the wider community
> (Academia, Government, intergovernmental organizations,
> charitable foundations, etc). 88% of current OSGeo Board
> members own or work for private geospatial businesses in the
> northwestern hemisphere and the remaining 12% in the
> northeastern hemisphere.
> 
> I think that formulation of a broader vision for the
> OSGeo Foundation requires a more  unbiased representation
> of the community in the OSGeo Board. Recent requests for more (direct)
> involvement of Charter Members in the OSGeo decision making process need
> to be considered seriously. FOSS4G Conference, the present OSGeo flagship
> was born before OSGeo came into existence. GeoServer and OpenLayers
> are among the few new thing that has happened after OSGeo was born.  Let us
> celebrate (and learn from) these new successes and deeply introspect on
> the panacea for some of our shortcomings.
> 
> Best
> 
> Venka
> 
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