[Board] Advisory Board?

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi Cameron,

I fully agree with your pragmatic concerns.

For the record, I am neither in favor of nor against an advisory board 
at this point. I don't see a need for it myself, but am not against 
someone else spending their time/energy making a case for it and 
defining how it would work either. My suggestion about the sponsors was 
simply to make sure they are considered *if* we go that route.

Daniel


On 12-09-08 2:41 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
>
>


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