[OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo

[Jeff McKenna]

Jody, your response is perfect.  I do get upset too often (or actually, 
I take quite a lot, but eventually am set off).  I apologize for this, I 
will try to be better.  I am slowly improving.  But I could be better.

To get myself back on track, I decided a few minutes ago (mentioned on 
the Board list) by doing some little things for OSGeo right now.  And 
you'll be happy to hear that one of them is Incubation-related: give a 
push with the pycsw team for the next steps (code review etc), as I am 
their mentor.

Thanks again for being the voice of reason Jody.  Let's all do as Jody 
says, and I am sure these tricky points will work themselves out.

-jeff



On 2014-09-15 4:57 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
> Well I don't like you get upset Jeff, you are correct that "patches"
> speak louder than emails.
>
> If I could put a plug in for the incubation committee - we would really
> love some more volunteers. We have a couple projects waiting to "get in"
> and all we need is a "mentor" to be a friendly voice/email contact.
>
> The stuff we do at OSGeo can be very intimidating (starting a steering
> committee - gasp!) or require sensitivity (trade mark conflict). Having
> a mentor to email or Skype can be of great assistance.
> --
> Jody Garnett
>
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jeff McKenna
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     Why is there this sudden need to point out things like this?  This
>     is the part that makes my heart drop.  (and the underlying meaning
>     of the subject of this email) Instead of pointing out issues, maybe
>     those making these noises can spend that time on the marketing
>     committee, or tackling on the membership issue.
>
>     I personally have no problem with LocationTech, in fact I agree they
>     play a very important role for businesses.  I do have a problem
>     however with pointing out problems with OSGeo and our baby, FOSS4G;
>     instead of pointing out problems, I feel those same people could be
>     diving into helping OSGeo grow and pick up the ball themselves.
>
>     -jeff
>
>
>
>
>
>     On 2014-09-15 2:56 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
>
>         Why is this not true? I think you are misinterpreting here Jeff.
>
>         Membership in OSGeo is a single person. Yes this person can
>         belong to a company or run their own company, but membership is
>         still personal.
>
>         Bart
>
>         Sent from my iPhone
>
>             On 15 sep. 2014, at 19:45, Jeff McKenna
>             <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
>             <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>__> wrote:
>
>                 On 2014-09-15 1:22 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
>                 the members in OSGeo are individuals and the members in
>                 Eclipse/LocationTech are businesses
>
>
>
>             Daniel this statement is not true, regarding OSGeo.  OSGeo
>             members are made up of all walks of life, and many are
>             running private businesses all around the world.  I have
>             visited their organizations/offices myself in my FOSS4G
>             travels throughout the years.
>
>             However I cannot change how you feel.
>
>             This part is unfortunate, these strong statements made
>             publicly, which I feel are made to divide our community.
>
>             Let me reinforce: our OSGeo community and our FOSS4G events
>             (of all sizes) are geared for everyone and anyone, with no
>             sole focus on one type of community.  And as the President
>             of OSGeo, I am happy to represent all of the members, of any
>             kind :)
>
>             -jeff
>
>