[Ica-osgeo-labs] Defining criteria for REL membership

[Suchith Anand]

Dimitris ,

Thank you for these excellent points. (And thanks Charlie for the interesting article reference).

Yes, participation itself in a global network with excellent people is the biggest benifit for all (those active and those not that active). We need to find mechanisms to encourage  and help those not that active to be more involved and active.

I also agree that the very  simple reporting suggested is just for understanding the bigger picture of the community and encourage more collaboration opportunities but not to be used as a criterion to continue someone's participation ( in fact, we can use this opportunity to help those who need more support).  Cameron and others who have great experience with success of OSGeo Live can give us more ideas to help us.

Suchith

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From: ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [ica-osgeo-labs-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Charles Schweik [cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 11:12 AM
To: Dimitris Kotzinos
Cc: ica-osgeo-labs at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [Ica-osgeo-labs] Defining criteria for REL membership

+1

One of my favorite quotes by open source advocate Eric Raymond is below, and relevant:

'... the number of contributors (and, at second order, the success of) projects is strongly and inversely correlated with the number of hoops each project makes a contributing user go through.' [1]

[1] http://timreview.ca/article/645

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos <kotzino at gmail.com<mailto:kotzino at gmail.com>> wrote:
Dear all,

I followed the exchange of e-mails on "advancing" the requirements for
participating in the GeoForAll, beyond just checking for inactivity.
I think that we should try to keep things simple; actually I think that
one of the points of the unprecedented success and growth the network
has seen, is based on the fact that things have been kept simple and not
very demanding in terms of time. I think the important point is to keep
people interested and involved. The many good people that already
participate and are active guarantee the growth of the network. If
someone is not very active in my view should be encouraged and helped
(as Suchith suggested) and not be thrown out or e.g. in incubation. We
have to consider also how valuable such participation is for
universities from developing countries, both in terms of best practices
and materials.
For me the main benefit of participation, is ... participation itself in
a global network with excellent people submitting proposals like the
ones by Charlie or Maria and while as usual few people will drive the
initiatives the more that participate the better it is.
Needless to say that some simple reporting is more than welcome for
understanding the bigger picture of the community but not to be used as
a criterion to continue someone's participation. In practical terms we
can always poke people from time to time to understand if they want to
continue being part or not as Helena did now (thanks Helena).

So let's try to hit the 100 members mark!

Best regards to all,
Dimitris

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