[Board] updating about the foundation web page

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Hi Ian,

On 2016/02/06 18:01, Ian Edwards wrote:
> Hi Venka,
>
> Could you try logging in again and visiting a standard page to see whether
> you now get an 'edit' option at the top of the page (e.g. try the
> committees page [1])?

Many thanks. I could login and also made few edits on
http://www.osgeo.org/node/1672

Best

Venka

>
> The following users should now have access :Endofcap, Jive, Anitagraser and
> Venkat
>
> Frank and Alex have both suggested that the other users need to log in
> successfully a first time (using their OSGeo LDAP account) before the
> username is registered in drupal [2].  Once registered we can update
> permissions for editing. This should apply to: Helena, Vasile, Maxi71,
> Msmitherdc and Dirkf
>
> Ian
>
> [1] http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/committees.html
> [2] https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1611
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan <
> raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:
>
>> 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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