[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

[David William Bitner]

As the current chair or that committee, I'd love to see someone step in and
take the helm to rejuvenate things!

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> wrote:

> 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
>>
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