[OSGeo-Discuss] Board candidate vision: Landon Blake

[Landon Blake]

Dirk:

You are correct. I overlooked those projects. Kinda embarrassing since I
helped Geoserver through incubation. Thanks for the correction. I still
think there is room for more cooperation among Java geo developers.

Landon


On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Dirk Frigne <dirk.frigne at geosparc.com>
wrote:

>  Landon,
> I don't understand your third point.
> IMHO following OSGeo projects are Java projects (if I don't miss any):
> - deegree
> - geomajas
> - geoserver
> - geotools
>
> D.
>
>
> On 26-08-14 17:45, Landon Blake wrote:
>
>  I wanted to share some comments on what I’d like to accomplish as an
> OSGeo Board Member. I have a bad habit of over committing, so I’m going to
> modestly limit my list of goals to the following:
>
> 1)      Work to help private companies and businesses that support the
> OSGeo software stack and other open source geospatial software. This
> includes increasing awareness about the software support services made
> available by these companies to customers and clients. It also includes
> making it easier for these private companies to support OSGeo activities
> and to receive recognition for this support.
>
> 2)      Work to further support OSGeo Labs. This includes identifying
> current hold-ups in our incubation and project approval process. I want to
> make it as easy as practical for projects to enter and graduate from
> incubation.
>
> 3)      Provide better coordination and organization of our open source
> Java geospatial community. Currently GeoTools is the only Java geospatial
> project in our software stack. I’d like to see greater cooperation among
> the Java advocates of OSGeo. This might include joint development of some
> standard libraries and packaging standards for the different platforms. I
> also think there is a tremendous opportunity to develop open source
> geospatial applications and libraries for Android.
>
> 4)      Organization house-keeping. This includes checking in with each
> committee to determine if it is functioning and if it has the resources it
> needs. Defunct committees will need a reboot. Committees that lack
> sufficient volunteer support or resources should be hibernated.
>
> However the election turns out, I hope to continue my work on the Journal
> and with OSGeo Labs.
>
>
>  Thanks.
>
>
>  Landon
>
>
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>
>
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