[Board] Advisory Board?

[Cameron Shorter]

I'm hesitant of setting up an "advisory board" due to the practicalities 
associated with it.
In particular:

1. How would you determine who is on the board? Will we allow anyone who 
volunteers to be part of the board? If so, we already have such a board 
- it is called the OSGeo discuss list.

2. If we decide to be selective about the "Advisory Board" then we could 
point to the existing OSGeo Board, or maybe existing OSGeo Charter 
members, or event "OSGeo Advocates". But I'm concerned about the level 
of engagement that you would get from each of these groups.

3. And what would be the level of time commitment expected from the 
"Advisory Board"? To be valuable, there will likely be a reasonable time 
commitment. And the experienced OSGeo members we have access to already 
have competing time commitments.

4. Alternatively, if we want non-trivial time commitments from 
experienced OSGeo members, then payment should be considered. This would 
align with OSGeo acting as a recruitment company, which I think is 
beyond the mandate of OSGeo. Instead, I believe such recruitment should 
be done outside of OSGeo.

Hence, I suggest that we avoid setting up an "advisory board" and make 
use of our existing communities instead.

On 08/09/12 07:11, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Just another tought, but if we consider setting up an advisory board, 
> we may also want to think about how we could involve our sponsors more 
> in this as well. If they are ready to put some of their money in 
> OSGeo, then they are probably good candidates for an advisory board too.
>
> Daniel
>
> On 12-09-06 12:05 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
>>
>>
>>
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