<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Mostly positive -- maybe a little wistful, but not intended to be negative.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I still see areas where OSGeo does (or could) add value, but I think the ideas of becoming a professional society or requiring people to pay dues are premature at best, until we can define what OSGeo’s charter and activities will be for the coming couple years.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If nothing else, Vasile’s survey is prompting people to think about this issues, and that’s what’s most important.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 1, 2015, at 2:44 AM, Andrea Giacomelli <<a href="mailto:pibinko@gmail.com" class="">pibinko@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Hi Michael - <br class=""><br class=""></div>1) Without knowing you in person, I can't say if your message is to be intended as with a "positive" tone, or with a bitter-sweet and slightly ironic tone ;)<br class=""><br class=""></div>Whichever way, I agree that any organization (starting even from small groups) periodically needs to stop and consider if its current state is in line with the external and internal conditions and -if not- try and understand if some form of change should be applied.<br class=""></div></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) the other consideration I appreciated is the one from Even Rouault: it is true that, as Joni Mitchell used to sing<br class=""><br class="">"Don't it always seem to go / That you don't know what you've got / ‘Til it's gone" (Big Yellow Taxi)<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">...a simple test would be for OSGEO activists (I mean guys who donate at least half a day per week of personal time -not paid time- to this) go on a "sabbatical leave" for, say, six months.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">then we see what happens ;)<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">best regards from Italy.<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Andrea Giacomelli<br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://www.pibinko.org/" class="">http://www.pibinko.org</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">2015-07-31 19:49 GMT+02:00 Michael Gerlek <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:mpg@flaxen.com" target="_blank" class="">mpg@flaxen.com</a>></span>:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I've stayed out of the pre-survey discussions on charter membership and whatnot, but after taking the survey yesterday, I’m starting to think that<br class="">
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OSGeo has accomplished what it set out to do some years ago, and as currently construed OSGeo will no longer serve a useful purpose.<br class="">
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