[OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo

[Massimo Di Stefano]

Hi All,

I agree with you i think we need a "local chapter" policy, to  
redistribute knowledge and organizational experience through the LC,  
helping ourselves to organize hack meetings and local conferences.

I think we also need to focus on an "educational strategy" to promote  
FOSS inside university departments.
A lot of people uses proprietary sw for their works not because they  
think
the proprietary software is better than the FOSS, but simply because  
they learned a proprietary application during their study and continue  
using them without considering other sw.

(cracking sw is too easy and in my experience  I see teachers even  
apply cracks or password cracked apps to their students)

So i hope to see in the next 5 years, OSGeo will improve in this  
direction, giving the right weight to an educational strategy.

Regards,

Massimo.
Il giorno 28/set/09, alle ore 18:17, Christopher Schmidt ha scritto:

> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:40:17PM -0500, 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.
>
> I was going to write a post in response to this, but after reading
> Howard's, I realize I hardly need to: essentially, his opinions and  
> position
> mirror mine 100%.
>
> Best Regards,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
> Web Developer
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