[OSGeo-Discuss] Status of discussion regarding FOSS4G collaboration with LocationTech and POCs

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Gert-Jan,

A lot of good topics have been brought up in the last few weeks, and a 
lot of discussions have occurred, as you mentioned.

I feel the whole community recently 'took a breath' about all this. 
Which of course was needed.

I wish I have all the answers for you, but I don't; to be honest, we are 
all working together as a community through this.  Take a glace at the 
topics for the next Board meeting[1], and you can see there is lots on 
our ('our' being everyone's) plate, so to speak.  (you'll notice that I 
had already had the 2016 topic on the agenda today, before you hinted at 
this publicly)

I know for myself, on this coming Friday, Andrew Ross (LocationTech) and 
I will meet for an hour to talk, which we both agree is a great thing 
(as Jachym often tells me, talking is really good).  And I realize that 
this has nothing to do with me, but as Jachym mentioned, has everything 
to do with what the community wants, what the OSGeo Charter Members 
want, where the community wants to go with FOSS4G.  Andrew and I will 
talk, but no decisions will be made without the community's support of 
course. Jachym's idea for a community survey is wonderful in this 
regard, in my opinion.

I'm sorry for all the confusion lately, but as a few people pointed out 
to me, these are all good things, good issues, and can really be called 
'growing pains' (sometimes as we grow there are difficult things we may 
face, and we will grow stronger as a result).  I should note here that I 
am not implying that LocationTech is difficult, opposite in fact, Andrew 
has been very accommodating.  The difficult thing is coming together as 
a community and helping guide the foundation along the path, and making 
sure everyone's needs are met.  That LocationTech is here is a good 
thing.  That is for sure.

Our community will grow stronger from all this.

Sorry for the clichés. But I really feel this.

Yours,

-jeff

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-10-16

-- 
Jeff McKenna
President, OSGeo
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna




On 2014-10-01 1:30 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> I'm, about to port the survey into different survey system
>
> to me, (and I already said it), the discussion is not about "to
> locationtech or not to locationtech", but about osgeo itself, what do
> we want, how do we want it, therefore the survey
>
> just my < 0.02
>
> Jachym
>
> 2014-10-01 18:04 GMT+02:00 Gert-Jan van der Weijden <gert-jan at osgeo.nl>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
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>> Last month there has been a lot of discussion on the subject whether or not
>> to collaborate with LocationTech in organizing the FOSS4G event (and if so,
>> under what conditions, and whats the goals of FOSS4G could and should be)
>>
>>
>>
>> As  the discussion spanned over at least 3 newsgroups it was not an easy one
>> to follow. (unless you're subscribed to all OSgeo-newsgroups, which I'm not)
>>
>>
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>> The discussion seems to be over. However 2 monuments of this discussion
>> remain
>>
>> 1. A wiki page at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Options_2014
>> (assembled by Cameron Shorter)
>>
>> 2. A google doc based survey (by Jacky Cepicky)
>>
>>
>>
>> Can someone explain to me (and others) what
>>
>> a) the current status of the discussion is
>>
>> b) where to find this status ;-)
>>
>> c) what the road map for this discussion is. I guess the deadline is
>> february 2015, when the Request For Proposal for 2016 is due ;-)
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Gert-Jan
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