[OSGeo-Discuss] a home for OSGeo hardcopy materials?

[Cameron Shorter]

With a globally distributed, tech savvy community such as ours, I think 
that we should avoid using paper for all but the essential legal documents.

Paper can't be machine processed, eg: searched, and requires valuable 
man hours to read and processed.

For evaluation forms, I suggest we use a web based system in future.

Dave Patton wrote:
> Jeff McKenna wrote:
>> Hello Dave,
>>
>> Yes in fact I have been compiling all conference documents through 
>> the years at: http://www.osgeo.org/conference/archives
>> Please send me all FOSS4G2007 documents, logos, reports, etc. so we 
>> can make sure they are placed on a server for future reference.
>
>> Dave Patton wrote:
>>> I'm sorting through the Workshop/Lab evaluation
>>> forms from FOSS4G2007, which we are going to
>>> have scanned into PDF documents. Although these
>>> aren't necessarily a good example, it made me
>>> wonder if OSGeo has a plan or mechanism in place
>>> to archive hardcopy documents?
>
> Jeff - that's good to know, but my question was
> about the hardcopies. For example, I see you have
> some evaluation form templates for 2004 & 2005
> on the server. I can send you the electronic copy
> of the Workshop/Lab evaluation forms we used for
> 2007, but that still leaves the question of what
> should happen to the actual evaluation forms.
>
> In this particular example, it's perhaps not a real
> issue, as we are going to have all the Workshop/Lab
> evaluation forms scanned to PDF, and those PDFs can
> be stored on the server. However, there might be
> situations where there is "actual paperwork" that
> OSGeo may want to keep(e.g. signed contracts, etc.).
>


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