[OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Helena Mitasova]

On Sep 14, 2009, at 11:40 PM, Howard Butler wrote:

>
> On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo  
>> over
>> the next 3 and 5 years.  I'd really like to hear thoughts on the  
>> matter
>> and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst
>> committees, projects, chapters and the board.
>>
>> It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming  
>> election to
>> get a sense of where other members are thinking these days.
>
>
> My measurement of success for OSGeo and priorities I hope it shares  
> in the next 3-5 years are the following three items:
> - Continued expansion of the local chapters.  Local chapters make  
> OSGeo real in the sense that mailing lists, websites, and an IRC  
> channel can't.
> - The conference continues uninterrupted for the next five years,  
> and we start to use it our central fundraising piece.
> - Cross-project collaboration, like the journal, osgeo4w, metacrs,  
> benchmarking, system administration, and geodata continues to be  
> fostered by us.  From my biased developer's perspective, these have  
> been OSGeo's biggest accomplishments along with the local chapter  
> development and consolidation of the conference.

+1 on these, including OSGeo Edu efforts as another example of  cross- 
project collaboration

Helena
>
> Howard
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