[Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] Polling charter members

[Cameron Shorter]

I'll volunteer to start a wiki collating options for the FOSS4G future, 
with sections that people can add comments into.
I should have something up for review and contributions within 24 hours.

On 18/09/2014 7:04 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
> Dear All
> I agree completely with Margherita. The most of people are asking 
> themselves what it is happening.
> Please who was and is involved, please write the history of what has 
> happened on a wiki page. When the plot is finalised the charter 
> members  vote.
> Maria
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> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
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> Public Participation GIS: a FOSS architecture enabling field-data 
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> *Da:* discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> <discuss-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Margherita Di Leo 
> <diregola at gmail.com>
> *Inviato:* giovedì 18 settembre 2014 10.13
> *A:* Jachym Cepicky
> *Cc:* <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>; conference; osgeo-board List; Steven 
> Feldman
> *Oggetto:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Polling charter members
> Dear All,
>
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Jachym Cepicky 
> <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com <mailto:jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Just noting,
>
>     discussion about relationship between LocationTech and OSGeo is here
>     since 2012 (IIRC). That many people did not pain attention to it
>     (actually including myself up to certain time), is not fault of OSGeo
>     .. or LocationTech.
>
>     It's just actually boring topic. We are community of (mostly)
>     developers and users of FOSS4G (not conference, but software in this
>     case). This sounds like politics .. who would pay attention? So, now
>     we are here, things are happening, we can finally talk to whole
>     community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big
>     organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future
>     for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good.
>     If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position.
>
>
> If anyone is wondering why most charter members remained silent about 
> the topic, here i can offer my 2 cents..
> It is true that this is a long story, but it's hard to find all the 
> elements needed for judgement. I'd ask those that have personally 
> followed the steps, to kindly fill a wiki page with the most important 
> facts. Another thing is that, for those that couldn't make it at 
> FOSS4G, it is (I believe) not easy to understand on what exactly the 
> community of charter members is being called to express their opinion. 
> What does it mean "to cooperate" and what does it imply for the 
> organizations involved? Is it a case by case cooperation what you're 
> talking about? why it looks like is the FOSS4G event at stake here?
>
> Thanks for any pointers
>
>
> -- 
> Best regards,
>
> Dr. Margherita DI LEO
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