[OSGeo-Discuss] Polling charter members

[Steven Feldman]

Before we get to the stage of polling charter members and local chapters, it would be helpful if more of the charter membership and local chapters chipped in with their opinions. Many seem to have been very quiet, i am sure they must have a view
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Steven


On 17 Sep 2014, at 20:00, conference-europe-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> From: Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo
> Date: 17 September 2014 19:22:24 BST
> To: P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com>
> Cc: OSGeo Discussions <discuss at lists.osgeo.org>
> 
> 
> Puneet,
> I agree with you, this is an "hot" decision that cannot be taken by a small group of people without at least have heard about what the OSGeo community think about.
> 
> In this tread I have learnt a lot on LocationTech and on motivation that pushed some OSGeo members to embrace also LocationTech. I can really feel the desire to help and foster geospatial open source software from those guys.
> 
> BTW, I also believe that FOSS4G is the OSGeo event. 
> 
> For this reason I believe that if OSGeo want to change things and share it with LocationTech (not just let them organize it in the name of), we need a deep OSGeo internal discussion at all level: Local Chapters, Charter members, Committees and finally the Board which has the responsibility to vote on this.
> 
> So, my proposal is:
> 1) Have a formal proposal from LocationTech which explain terms of collaboration, commitments and guarantees
> 2) Publish publicly this proposal for a period (let's say 2 week) for people to look into this proposal
> 3) Call for a vote from charter members
> 4) Call for a letter of position letter from each committee and local Chapters
> 5) Publish publicly the results 
> 6) Discuss it on the next board meeting and finally have a vote and a letter of motivation from the Board
> 
> 
> BTW, the FOSS4G-EUROPE website (http://foss4g-e.org/) states clearly at the home page: "OSGeo's European Conference on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial".
> 
> 
> I hope this doesn't hurt anyone, and brings positive point of discussion.
> 
> It is just my personal thought as a new board member, and sorry if I've lost some best practice currently in place.
> 
> Maxi
> 
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