[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4GNA - Someone is watching you :-o

[Ian Edwards]

    *"there seems to be a fairly strident Location Tech bashing going on"*

This negative "bashing" of other organisations has to completely stop
because it is having a massive negative impact on OSGeo.

We've recently lost a respected former board member (who has resigned his
charter member status) and the OSGeo president, both in relation to how
we've conducted ourselves in relation to other organisations in the
community.  These internal losses are not due to there being other
organisations in the geospatial world, nor how they are acting - but
instead our losses are due to how we ourselves are thinking and behaving.

OSGeo should positively support all elements of the geospatial community
including users, developers and also other organisations to the fullest and
best of our ability.  By doing this we become stronger (instead of weaker)
and will remain useful, relevant and of interest to the community who will
continue to invest their energy and efforts with us and recognise our
unique value and position.

In relation to LocationTech - similar divisions exist across the entire
Open Source world (take a look at LibreOffice and OpenOffice, or MariaDB
and MySQL).  The broard "FOSS4G" community (encompassing both OSGeo and
LocationTech) is not alone in facing this, and my hope is that OSGeo can
once again be a beacon to the rest of the open source world and show how
best to embrace these differences, understand the strengths and weakness in
both camps, and work together for the positive benefit of our diverse
community.


--
Ian Edwards

On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> > On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Pat Tressel <ptressel at myuw.net> wrote:
> >
> > If you want to point at a company as being the Evil Empire these days,
> you'd be more accurate pointing at Apple (cancelling licenses for Mac
> clones, suicides at Foxconn, restrictions on getting apps on iTunes,
> removing fitness tracker products from their stores because they might
> compete with the Apple Watch, etc. -- do a search for "apple anti
> competitive practices")
>
> You were doing fine until above. The rest of your post is indeed very
> relevant and useful and argues correctly for sanity instead of knee-jerk
> accusations (until the above assertions, of course).
>
> The point is, there seems to be a fairly strident Location Tech bashing
> going on, and it is getting to be tiring. Let's stick to keeping OSGeo a
> fun, useful champion of free and open geospatial without becoming
> anti-anything-free, partisan and possibly irrelevant.
>
> --
> Puneet Kishor
> Just Another Creative Commoner
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