[Board] updating about the foundation web page

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

On 2016/02/04 16:47, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Thank you for the help/inspiration - I was able to update the page - and
> added a "A new vision for OSGeo" as a birthday present to your existing
> blog post.
Thanks, Jody.
Great too see the new vision on the post.
There are a few minor edits still needed
in the message.

Wonder if we can be able to edit the web pages too.
I can login with but unable to edit the pages.

Venka

>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 3 February 2016 at 19:01, Venkatesh Raghavan <
> raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:
>
>> On 2/4/2016 11:06 AM, Jody Garnett wrote:
>>
>>> How about one of these:
>>> a) "educational outreach championing open education curriculum development
>>> covering participation and use of open-source geospatial"
>>>
>>> b) "educational outreach championing participation and use of open-source
>>> geospatial and the development of an open education curriculum"
>>>
>>> Longer but perhaps more clear?
>>>
>> b) sounds better to me, perhaps "curriculum" could be changed to
>> "contents".
>> Please, also consider third choice below;
>>
>> c) "educational outreach championing participation in the use of
>> open-source
>> geospatial and the development of an open education contents"
>>
>>
>> the two bullets below could be
>>>> - actively engage with the likeminded communities and organziations;
>>>> - enable communication and cooperation between OSGeo communities;
>>>>
>>>> concised as
>>>>
>>>> - actively engage with the likeminded communities and organziations
>>>>      to promote inter-community communication and collaborations;
>>>>
>> I see the logic in keeping it as two separate bullets.
>> "between" could be changed to "amongst" in the second bullet to
>> two or more communities.
>>
>> - enable communication and cooperation amongst OSGeo communities;
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Venka
>>
>>>> I agree the wording got too close for comfort between the two topics -
>>> perhaps because of the word communities.
>>>
>>> The first one "actively engage with the likeminded communities and
>>> organziations" ... is EXTERNAL where we are trying to engage with external
>>> organizations (OSM, ICA, LocationTech, Apache) using the tools we have
>>> available - membership, MOUs, joint events, shared initiatives ...
>>>
>>> The second one "enable communication and cooperation between OSGeo
>>> communities" .. is INTERNAL where we want communication between the tribes
>>> (Java,C,Python) and platforms (Win32,Linux,...).  Today the 'battle lines'
>>> are not expressed in terms of Java and C - but the goal of encouraging
>>> communication/collaboration remains.
>>>
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