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

[Jody Garnett]

The board is aware of public perception and I trust it will be on the
agenda for f2f meeting.

I think we can do a bit better than a statement - in our last board meeting
Micheal Smith has volunteered to be our OSGeo representative to
LocationTech. OSGeo is a member of LocationTech and we have been remiss in
keeping communication going in an official capacity (by supplying a
representative). We can issue a press release to that effect to have a
publicly visible sign of communication/collaboration.

Thank you for reassurance on the selection process Jeroen - all three were
very strong bids.

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Jody Garnett

On 16 December 2015 at 05:29, Jeroen Ticheler <jeroen.ticheler at geocat.net>
wrote:

> Thanks Ian for this email! I fully support what you are writing. It is
> very much time to stop the negative sentiments around LocationTech, FOSS4G
> conference offers that had LocationTech as a partner and so forth.
> Constructive collaboration is all we need within OSGeo AND with others in
> the (geo-)community.
>
> I’ve heard negative sentiments about the FOSS4G 2017 selection process. As
> a member of the Conference Committee I would like to state here that I am
> convinced the LocationTech issue was not as decisive for most members as
> people outside the committee seem to think. It was an aspect discussed
> thoroughly, as were other aspects of the proposals.
>
> I hope the Face to Face meeting end of January by the OSGeo board hosted
> in our GeoCat office will be constructive and positive from all angles. But
> at this stage I also call upon the OSGeo Board to come forward with a
> statement that helps to unify the OSGeo community and give directions.
> There seems to be a vacuum in the leadership right now with Jeff’s sudden
> resignation that should be filled as soon as possible.
>
> Greetings,
> Jeroen
>
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> On 16 dec. 2015, at 12:29, Ian Edwards <iedwards.pub at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     *"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
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