[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

[Jeff McKenna]

Yes indeed, we are on the same team here.  Since you mentioned my name, 
I tried very hard to make relationships with so many communities 
(remember, at some point I was told that OSGeo was being too inclusive, 
reaching out to too many groups); so it is hard to please everyone.  For 
sure there is more to do, and OSGeo's OpenData committee needs love, 
needs more passionate voices, as I hear in your voice.  Maybe Jachym you 
could kick-start that committee?  Sometimes committees need a little 
nudge, to get things moving again.  Call a meeting of the data 
committee, create an agenda, and set some tasks (it's a good way to get 
things going again).

-jeff

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



On 2016-10-17 8:22 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
> I'm just trying to put my memories together - I'm glad, we are all on
> the same board. I try to push open  (geo)data topic as well, in or out
> of OSGeo
>
> J
>
> po 17. 10. 2016 v 13:17 odesílatel Jeff McKenna
> <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>>
> napsal:
>
>     Hi Jachym,
>
>     I have given talks on OSGeo and open data.  I am sorry to hear that you
>     believe I said that about the foundation.  I do believe we've discussed
>     this in face-to-face board meetings before, so maybe that is where you
>     heard this?  I remember a discussion of adding open data into our
>     foundation's mission statement, which I believe we did.
>
>     -jeff
>
>
>     --
>     Jeff McKenna
>     President Emeritus, OSGeo
>     http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
>
>
>
>     On 2016-10-17 6:37 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>     > Hi Sanghee,
>     > I was told some months ago (and I believe, it was Jeff), that we
>     > (OSGeo.org) are solely software foundation - therefore we do not care
>     > about open data
>     >
>     > maybe things have changed?
>     >
>     > J
>     >
>     > po 17. 10. 2016 v 5:08 odesílatel Sanghee Shin <shshin at gaia3d.com
>     <mailto:shshin at gaia3d.com>
>     > <mailto:shshin at gaia3d.com <mailto:shshin at gaia3d.com>>> napsal:
>     >
>     >     Dear all,
>     >
>     >     Can anybody share presentation file about the OSGeo and open data,
>     >     if any? I’m invited to give a keynote talk at ‘Open Data in Action
>     >     Conference’[1] in Korea and I don’t want to make the file from the
>     >     scratch.
>     >
>     >     FYI, OSGeo Korea[2], R Korea[3], Open Data Institute(ODI)
>     Seoul[4],
>     >     Open Knowledge(OK) Korea[5] will co-host the event on 15th Nov
>     near
>     >     Seoul. The main theme of the conference is ‘Experiment on Open
>     Data
>     >     based Society.’ Anybody who has similar interest can join this
>     >     conference.
>     >
>     >     Kind regards,
>     >     신상희
>     >
>     >     [1]http://event.r-kor.org/
>     >     [2]http://www.osgeo.kr/
>     >     [3]http://r-kor.org/
>     >     [4]http://seoul.theodi.org/
>     >     [5]http://okfn.kr/
>     >     ---
>     >     Shin, Sanghee
>     >     Gaia3D, Inc. - The GeoSpatial Company
>     >     http://www.gaia3d.com