<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">I wanted to share some comments on what I’d like to
accomplish as an OSGeo Board Member. I have a bad habit of over committing, so I’m
going to modestly limit my list of goals to the following:</p>
<p class="" style>1)<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'"> </span>Work to help private companies and businesses
that support the OSGeo software stack and other open source geospatial software.
This includes increasing awareness about the software support services made
available by these companies to customers and clients. It also includes making
it easier for these private companies to support OSGeo activities and to
receive recognition for this support.</p>
<p class="" style>2)<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Work to further support OSGeo Labs. This
includes identifying current hold-ups in our incubation and project approval
process. I want to make it as easy as practical for projects to enter and
graduate from incubation.</p>
<p class="" style>3)<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Provide better coordination and organization of
our open source Java geospatial community. Currently GeoTools is the only Java geospatial
project in our software stack. I’d like to see greater cooperation among the
Java advocates of OSGeo. This might include joint development of some standard
libraries and packaging standards for the different platforms. I also think
there is a tremendous opportunity to develop open source geospatial
applications and libraries for Android.</p>
<p class="" style>4)<span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">
</span>Organization house-keeping. This includes
checking in with each committee to determine if it is functioning and if it has
the resources it needs. Defunct committees will need a reboot. Committees that
lack sufficient volunteer support or resources should be hibernated.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However the election turns out, I hope to continue my work
on the Journal and with OSGeo Labs.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Landon</p></div>