[OSGeo-Discuss] RE: Defining an OSGeo Ambassador role

[Dimitris Kotzinos]

Dear all,

following up on Michael's e-mail, I have to say that I find the idea of 
having OSGEO ambassadors very useful and I think that we should keep it 
to a limited number of people (maybe about a dozen as a maximum) 
geographically spread all over the globe.

Moreover, I would like to take the opportunity to put forward some 
additional concerns.
I have followed in this list some (sometimes fierce) discussions about 
managerial issues of the OSGEO (e.g. the discussion on the decision to 
have no Executive Director, the discussion on the responsibilities for 
the Beijing conference and so on). I am still missing the discussion (at 
the discussion list) of a more complete and coherent plan on how we 
think OSGEO should go on for the next couple of years.
I think that having Ambassadors or not should be part of a greater plan 
on how we think OSGEO should handle (sometimes practical) issues like 
its representation in events, its public face, the conferences we want 
to put together (and how) and so on ...
Thus my request is to discuss the whatever plan as a whole and not as 
individual ideas.

My apologies for opening up again a discussion that might already be 
obsolete :)

Best regards,

Dimitris Kotzinos