[Board] resignation

[Landon Blake]

Bart:

I'd recommend you take a few days before you make a final decision about
your resignation. I've been in your situation before...and I resigned from
a board position with a volunteer organization. After things cooled off, I
regretted my quick decision.

It sounds like your opinion on the board is valuable, especially if it is a
minority opinion. You really need to stay on the board to represent the
OSGeo members that share your feelings about how to move forward.

I hope you will reconsider and decide to stay on with the board.

Landon

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:31 AM, Anne Ghisla <a.ghisla at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 22:05:38 +0200
> Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I agree on this. Jeff (and others), I really see no point on fighting
> > anyone. You can not prohibit people to talk each other, that is one of
> > foss4g tasks and scope. And I always try to put people together,
> > rather then splitting them. I wish, I could talk to some of the ESRI
> > guys more :-( but I managed to talk to people about locationtech
> > topic. Bart, things are happening. OSGeo tries to define it's
> > position to locationtech, things are moving now, we are on it. And we
> > will see, as I always say.
>
> Board, all,
>
> I agree with Jachym, things are moving.
> However, not everyone in OSGeo agrees on this movement. There are
> different opinions, that I recognise as valid, but are not similar
> enough to let OSGeo take one clear direction.
>
> This is also due to the openness of the question. OSGeo as a Foundation
> can take the decision, either to refuse/delay collaboration, and keep
> managing its activities (in a broad sense) by itself. Otherwise, it can
> decide for collaboration with other groups on common goals.
>
> I think that both ways are possible, but require different efforts, and
> lead to different results. This is the big question that I see hidden
> behind much of the last discussions, within Board and on Discuss thread.
>
> As Jachym and others, I am in favour of experimenting collaboration
> with LocationTech about co-organisation of an event, then decide
> about a long-term cooperation.
> I feel it is an opportunity that is available to OSGeo, that deserves a
> try. If we see that this (or other) collaboration dilutes OSGeo spirit
> too much, then we can decide to improve it, and if not possible, to
> step back, and/or try to collaborate on other topics.
>
> On a bigger scale, there are also some weaknesses of OSGeo (finance?
> promotion?..) that can be improved by moving from volunteer
> contributions into a more structured, managed way. Again, it is an open
> question: it is perfectly acceptable to keep things going as now. It
> depends on what expectations OSGeo (as a community, in the broader
> sense) has on OSGeo (as an infrastructure, a set of services, a player
> in geospatial domain, etc). This is a broad question that requires more
> than a Board meeting to be answered.
>
> [ps: Steven and Jo were faster than me in summarising the situation,
> but I send this mail anyway.]
>
> Best,
>
> Anne
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