[Board] OSGeo involvement in οfficial project

[Cameron Shorter]

Maria,
Could you please write down a suggestion for what you think these
guidelines should be. I'm not sure there is anyone on the board who has
a clear understanding of what should be in such guidelines. I'd
appreciate being able to tap into your experience putting together
proposals to help guide us.

On 13/03/14 18:50, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
> Probably if the Board defines rules and guidelines for participating/advisoring/endorsing the problem "why endorsing him/her and not me" can be solved. The same for the second question.
> Thanks! 
> Maria
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> Da: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> Inviato: mercoledì 12 marzo 2014 22.00
> A: board at lists.osgeo.org
> Oggetto: Re: [Board] OSGeo involvement in οfficial project
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> On 2014-03-12, 8:24 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos wrote:
>> 2/ participating or sometimes even endorsing competitive projects on an
>> official capacity (e.g. as OSGEO) can create all sorts of troubles on
>> "why endorsing him/her and not me" or at a later stage "who handles the
>> money and who gets"paid" from the money" that come through these sources.
>>
> Thanks Dimitris, I was raising this issue (OSGeo endorsing/certifying
> certain projects and not others) in earlier offline discussions.  I do
> like however the mention of local chapters, and how it should be up to
> them (they know the local community, the local private companies,
> organizations) to decide how to endorse certain projects.  It probably
> shouldn't all come down to a guy sitting at a desk in a remote fishing
> village ;)
>
> -jeff
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