[OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Open Source Users Charter

[Daniel Morissette]

Hi Steven,

I see no problem with putting a "How to be a good OSGeo Citizen" in the 
wiki, that could be a great way to evolve the document by drawing from 
ideas of multiple people on this topic.

The reason for the "I'm not sure" in my previous email was mostly that I 
feel that getting consensus in the community about making this a formal 
statement of OSGeo could be complicated because there may be differing 
views when we get on that kind of topics (encouraging return from users 
vs letting the code be fully free of any expectations).

So my point was simply that I do agree with you on trying to encourage 
users to return something for the long term viability of the software 
they use, and short of getting consensus in the community to publish the 
"perfect" statement which could be tough, if more articles like yours 
are spread around then the message may be even stronger than a formal 
statement from OSGeo and require less efforts.

Daniel


On 14-07-15 3:50 AM, Steven Feldman wrote:
> Daniel
>
> If we get to a version that the community broadly supports can it go on
> the OSGeo wiki? I thought anyone could (just about) could post on the
> wiki and others can amend or even delete.
>
> Does the appearance of something on the wiki mean that it is official
> OSGeo policy? If so what is the process for making such policy, a board
> vote?
>
> I hope that my post gets enough feedback to indicate whether there is
> community interest in the idea
> ______
> Steven
>
>
> On 14 Jul 2014, at 22:59, board-request at lists.osgeo.org
> <mailto:board-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>> *From:*Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com
>> <mailto:dmorissette at mapgears.com>>
>> *Subject:**Re: [Board] [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source Users Charter*
>> *Date:*14 July 2014 20:50:31 BST
>> *To:*discuss at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
>> *Cc:*OSGeo-Board <board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:board at lists.osgeo.org>>
>>
>>
>> I like your article too. Not sure if/how we could make this an
>> official OSGeo statement, but I'm definitely a big +1 on seeing more
>> blog articles like this!
>>
>> Daniel
>


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