[Board] Geodata Committee inactive

[Jody Garnett]

Doubling back to this topic - the board decided not to dissolve the
committee but instead seek new volunteers.

Has the search been successful? If so we review the committee mandate with
new members.

--
Jody Garnett

On 7 November 2017 at 13:31, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks David, will add it to next meetings agenda.
>
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On 7 November 2017 at 13:16, David William Bitner <bitner at dbspatial.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Jody,
>>
>> The entirety of the Geodata presentation was "The Geodata Committee is
>> inactive".
>>
>> Many of the original goals of the Geodata Committee which included
>> hosting data, providing advocacy, initial prototyping things like Open
>> Aerial Map never really took off as the volunteer load was quite
>> substantial.
>>
>> I think it would be entirely reasonable to dissolve the committee. I have
>> asked several times over the last decade if there was anyone else who had
>> energy to give things a jump start and have had no takers. Probably a sign.
>>
>> -Bitner
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 2:55 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> David can I ask for clarification, I am sorry mins were not taken for
>>> the AGM meeting so I do not have notes from your presentation.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On 5 November 2017 at 22:42, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The discussion list provided the following note from David Bitner:
>>>>
>>>> *Jody,*
>>>>
>>>> *I did present at the AGM to say that the Geodata Committee is indeed
>>>> inactive.*
>>>>
>>>> *David*
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> David would you like us to make a motion to dissolve the committee, or
>>>> as chair you could inform us it is no longer active.
>>>> --
>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ************************************
>> David William Bitner
>> dbSpatial LLC
>> 612-578-9553 <(612)%20578-9553>
>>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/attachments/20180108/e28c6055/attachment.htm>