[Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...

[Dirk Frigne]

Venka et All,

It was w board decision on the face2face meeting in Januari 2016 to
replace the Education committee by  Geo4All. This was mentionned in the
meeting. From the meeting notes:

MC: Recognize Geo4all is the new educational outreach of OSgeo
MS: seconded
Passed

Relationship with Geo4all

    The have decided for scenario 1B
https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GeoForAll_OSGeo_Relationship#Scenario_1B
    We are dissolving the disfunct education committee and establish
Geo4all as the new education outreach of OSGeo
    Geo4all needs to provide a contact personal

Regards,
D.

On 21/10/2016 01:27, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> Maxi, Cameron and all,
> 
> Perhaps the term "Education Committee" could be replaced with
> Geo4All as it represents the educational outreach project of
> OSGeo.
> 
> Mapbuilder which is listed as an Foundation project has
> retired [1] and and can be removed or shown
> "Past Project".
> 
> Regarding "Public Geodata Project", I expressed my views in
> the recent e-mail [2]. I would be happy to work together with
> anyone who would like to take up on forming the "Data4All"
> initiative with OSM, HOT and others in the Open Data
> community.
> 
> Best
> 
> Venka
> 
> [1]
> http://cameronshorter.blogspot.jp/2008/07/end-of-life-for-community-mapbuilder-we_29.html
> [2] https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2016-October/016812.html
> 
> On 10/21/2016 4:53 AM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Hi Maxi,
>>
>> I'm not sure our software incubation checklist is the correct criteria
>> to apply to "OSGeo Outreach Projects".
>>
>> -- 
>>
>> The education committee is a huge success story of OSGeo, attracting
>> educators from around the world who are promoting Open Source to
>> future generations. OSGeo should be promoting this community.
>>
>> OSGeo-Live likewise has hundreds of contributors, provides a easy way
>> for new users to find out about Open Source projects, and maintains a
>> high level of quality. It should be promoted. Note, we have considered
>> taking OSGeo-Live through graduation. Checklist here:
>>
>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Incubation_Graduation_Checklist
>>
>> One concern I have is that OSGeo-Live includes more projects than just
>> those incubated. A casual observer would naturally deduce that if
>> OSGeo-Live has reached incubation quality, then all included packages
>> should have also reached such quality. This assumption is incorrect
>> and should not be promoted by OSGeo, and is a reason for OSGeo-Live
>> not to be officially recognised as an OSGeo incubated project.
>>
>> -- 
>> The OSGeo Data Committee is a great idea, but has lost impetus. This
>> might be a candidate for dropping from the home page. Possibly we
>> should be pointing people to Open Street Map or similar.
>>
>> Warm regards, Cameron
>>
>> On 21/10/2016 12:20 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
>>> dear Board,
>>> in the OSGeo landing page (www.osgeo.org <http://www.osgeo.org>) in
>>> the "OSGeo projects" frame are listed the so called "Outreach Projects".
>>>
>>> To my understanding and knowledge these listed projects (Public
>>> Geospatial Data, Education and Curriculum, OSGeo Live) have not been
>>> nor incubated nor graduated.
>>>
>>> I'm therefore asking for clarification, and in the case my
>>> understanding is correct, to immediately remove these projects from
>>> the landing page.
>>>
>>> Two of them are actually committee, at the same level of the other
>>> OSGeo committee, that in my opinion should be equally promoted and
>>> listed togheter.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Maxi
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> *Massimiliano Cannata*
>>>
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>>>
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