[gdal-dev] Renaming of GDAL Advisory Board

[Frank Warmerdam]

+1 Frank

On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 12:36 PM Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com>
wrote:

> +1
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On 2021-06-04 12:24, Even Rouault wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > We just had a meeting with NumFOCUS staff, and they suggested we should
> > rename the GDAL Advisory Board to something else. The issue is with the
> > Board term which is a legal term and may implicate that it is a deciding
> > body, which it is not. They suggested Council, Committee, as potential
> > alternatives. As committee is already used for the PSC, I think "GDAL
> > Advisory Council" could be a good fit.
> >
> > If there's no opposition to this, I'll change all references to it on
> > the GDAL website (RFC 80, sponsorship prospectus), and ask for the
> > related mailing list to be renamed/recreated.
> >
> > Other news: the Fiscal Sponsorship Agreement document, which will make
> > us officialy a NumFOCUS sponsored project, is now in the signing loop.
> >
> > Even
> >
>
>
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