[Board] Advisory Board?

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Mark,

I like your idea to engage companies such as Digital Globe.  In fact I
recently had a discussion with Mike Smith from the US Army Corps of
Engineers to possibly contact larger geo companies to share resources
for testing and data.  At that time we/I were dreaming of someone like
ESRI providing infrastructure (software/machines) to do
testing/benchmarking - but this is very similar to someone like Digital
Glob providing data sets (imagine the benefit to making GDAL and our
software projects grow).

I'm a strong +1 on your idea.

-jeff



On 12-09-06 1:05 PM, Mark Lucas wrote:
> I recently visited Digital Globe in Longmont Colorado and reconnected
> with their team.  They are in the process of acquiring GeoEye and they
> are the predominant collector of commercial satellite imagery in the
> world.  With the combine assets they sit on, if memory serves me
> correctly, something like 12 Billion square miles of collected imagery.
>  Their worldview sensor will introduce high resolution spectral bands.
> 
> I was in several discussions about open source software, OSGeo, and
> remote sensing in general.  They are interested in potentially providing
> imagery data sets for testing, evaluation, and to derive new application
> areas.  It was clear that they would like to engage with us to make some
> of these efforts happen
> 
> I believe Dr Walter Scott is in the process of joining the OGC board.
>  I've know him for over a decade, here is a writeup:
> 
> http://www.afcea.org/events/stratcom/11/documents/scottwalter.pdf
> 
> Should we consider establishing an OSGeo Advisory board made up of
> leaders in the industry that might help advance our cause?
> 
> Like to hear what everyone thinks of the idea.
> 
> Mark
> 
>