[Board] resignation

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Bart,
same here. I value your input at the board level and also want to
suggest that you reconsider. Don't feeld pressured through, this is
just a suggestion. Landon found the right words.

Cheers,
Arnulf

Am 2014-09-17 07:01, schrieb 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 
> <mailto:a.ghisla at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 22:05:38 +0200 Jachym Cepicky
> <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com <mailto: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 -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla
> 
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