[Board] Motion on Open lidar letter

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Thu Apr 23 06:11:18 PDT 2015


Thanks Maxi.

A first draft of the Board cover letter is at 
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter_Board_Cover It would be 
good for all Board members to take a look and edit that page if need be.

-jeff



On 2015-04-23 9:33 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
> Dear All,
> With 6 votes +1 and 3 votes +0 I declare the motion to support the
> letter on LiDAR open standard passed.
>
> The board will draft a support letter.
>
> Best,
> Maxi
>
>
>
> 2015-04-23 12:01 GMT+02:00 Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com
> <mailto:jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>>:
>
>     +0
>
>     With comment: -1 for the tone, +1 for the "idea" of the letter
>
>     Requesting and pointing at "one evil" does not bring solutions, only
>     builds walls. Therefore also not signing the letter as private
>     person. If someone else takes the power, I can only say: that this
>     is not my way.
>
>     Sorry for the delay
>
>     Jachym
>
>     čt 23. 4. 2015 v 7:15 odesílatel Massimiliano Cannata
>     <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch
>     <mailto:massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>> napsal:
>
>         My vote is +0,
>         I support the idea but not the tone of the letter.
>
>         Maxi
>
>
>         Il giorno gio 23 apr 2015 01:13 AM Cameron Shorter
>         <cameron.shorter at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.shorter at gmail.com>>
>         ha scritto:
>
>             I think all board members have now voted? Thankyou for your
>             support.
>             Massimo, as you raised this motion, do you wish to declare
>             its result?
>
>             Next actions:
>             * Declare result of motion (Massimo)
>             * Update the Open Letter wiki with cover letter. There is
>             proposed text
>             below. I'm happy to do this, unless someone else does it first.
>             * Send the Open Letter to key stakeholders (emails below).
>             Jeff, do you
>             wish to do that? Would you like any help?
>
>             Regards,
>             Cameron
>
>             On 23/04/2015 1:44 am, Vasile Craciunescu wrote:
>              > +1
>              >
>              > I totally agree with Jorge.
>              >
>              > Best,
>              > Vasile
>              >
>              > On 4/22/15 8:27 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
>              >> I do not enter in detail of your debate about media. I
>             can just say that
>              >> the board is slow because there is discussion on the
>             form of the letter
>              >> you prepared.
>              >>
>              >> At this point I officially make the motion to vote on
>             beard official
>              >> support of the letter on lidar standard as it is
>              >> athttp://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter
>             <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter>
>              >> <http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter>
>              >>
>              >> Maxi
>              >>
>              >> Hello Jeff and the OSGeo Board,
>              >>
>              >> Our next step is to deliver the Open Letter, as
>             suggested earlier in
>              >> this thread. (see below)
>              >>
>              >> We are waiting on an answer from the earlier proposal
>             for the OSGeo
>              >> Board to present this Open Letter. Is another 48 hours
>             enough time to
>              >> respond?
>              >>
>              >> The alternative is that some one else from the OSGeo
>             community delivers
>              >> this letter.
>              >>
>              >>> On 16/04/2015 9:52 pm, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>              >>>> Hi OSGeo Board,
>              >>>>
>              >>>> I request the board support an OSGeo Community
>             developed Open Letter
>              >>>> aimed at protecting open LiDAR standards.
>              >>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/LIDAR_Format_Letter
>              >>>>
>              >>>> Proposal 1: The OSGeo Board agree to include the
>             following statement
>              >>>> (or similar wording) into the letter:
>              >>>>
>              >>>> = Cover Letter from the OSGeo Board =
>              >>>>
>              >>>> The board of the [http://osgeo.org Open Source
>             Geospatial Foundation]
>              >>>> (OSGeo) is presenting this letter to the OGC, ESRI and
>             ASPRS. The
>              >>>> letter highlights concerns about fragmentation in
>             LiDAR standards
>              >>>> from many people within the OSGeo community. As
>             always, if there is
>              >>>> anything the OSGeo board can do to help, then please
>             let us know.
>              >>>>
>              >>>> Signed: <OSGeo Board Members>
>              >>>>
>              >>>> Proposal 2:
>              >>>> Once the letter has completed the signature phase, the
>             letter be
>              >>>> emailed from the OSGeo President to key people within
>             these
>              >>>> organisations:
>              >>>>
>              >>>> Mark Reichardt <mreichardt AT opengeospatial.org
>             <http://opengeospatial.org>
>              >>>> <http://opengeospatial.org>>, OSGeo President
>              >>>> David Danko <DDanko AT esri.com <http://esri.com>
>             <http://esri.com>>, ESRI's Senior
>              >>>> Consultant for GIS Standards
>              >>>> Stephen D. DeGloria < sdd4 AT cornell.edu
>             <http://cornell.edu> <http://cornell.edu>>,
>              >>>> President of the ASPRS
>              >> --
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