[OSGeo-Discuss] Many Question about the OSGeo

[Tyler Mitchell]

Hi Kai
Do you have a couple days for me to pull this all together for you?

Tyler

Tyler Mitchell
Executive Director
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
tmitchell at osgeo.org
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On 9-Feb-07, at 3:51 PM, Kai Behncke wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> for an article in a German Newspaper I have a couple of questions  
> about the
> OSGeo. The aim of that article is to give informations to a broader  
> public and
> to promote the OSGeo in a professional journal.Maybe you can help me?
>
> I need to produce an organigram, so:
>
> 1. Is it correct, that the "Board of Directors" is elected by the  
> 45 "charter
> members"?
>
> 2. Who is electing the 45 "charter members"? How do people get the  
> status as a
> "charter member"?
>
> 3.There are 9 committees.Everyone has a "chair-person". Who is  
> electing that
> "chair-person"?
>
> 4. What is the job of the Executive Director?
>
> I would write down some examples about what the OSGeo has done  
> practically.
> On the homepage it`s written:
>
> "The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal  
> support to the
> broader open source geospatial community."
>
> 5.Does that mean, that the OSGeo spends money ,for example, to  
> develop the
> code  of special OS-Software?
> 6.Which projects where sponsored concretely?
>
> 7.Is there somewhere an overview how much money the OSGeo spends  
> for what?
> Just to have an impression of the dimensions.
>
> 8.Can you give me some practical examples what the OSGeo has  
> concretely done?
> So that we can write down some "hard facts".
> Can you give me an example for the legal support?
>
> 9. Do you have a statistic how many hits the site https:// 
> www.osgeo.org/
> has per day, or maybe a statistic how many users are registered in  
> the various
> mailing lists of the OSGeo?
>
> Thank you very much in advance :-)
> Kai
>
>
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