[Board] Geodata Committee inactive

[Jody Garnett]

Thanks again Suchith:

Can I ask you to pass on the https://staging.www.osgeo.
org/about/committees/public-geospatial-data-committee/ page to the email
list and ask for review.

--
Jody Garnett

On 8 January 2018 at 11:26, Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Thanks. I have volunteered myself as member for this committee and joined
> the mail lists etc. I send email yesterday to the list [1]. Hoping for
> response soon .
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
> Suchith
>
>
>
> [1]  https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/geodata/2018-January/001054.html
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> *From:* Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Jody Garnett <
> jody.garnett at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* 08 January 2018 17:54
> *To:* David Bitner
> *Cc:* board at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Board] Geodata Committee inactive
>
> 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
>
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