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

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

+1. I agree with the views of Helena and Dimitris entirely.

Venka

On 2015/06/02 21:31, Helena Mitasova wrote:
> +1 - I completely agree with Dimitris - please keep in mind that in academia we have enormous load in terms of reporting, writing, reviewing, recommending etc. and the last thing we want to do is to add to the bureaucracy.
> Cameron, you might have missed the discussion that we had when setting up the current criteria, but please let us keep it simple -
> the board has just approved the first formal criteria, so let us give them some time to see whether they are sufficient
> and if there is a need we can formalize them further in future, but I don’t think there is a need for it now.
>
> I will be quite happy if we can have an up to date wiki table with active links and coordinates entered in correct order,
> with labs focusing their energy on development of educational material, research and outreach,
>
> Helena
>
>
>> On Jun 2, 2015, at 6:12 AM, Charles Schweik <cschweik at pubpol.umass.edu> wrote:
>>
>> +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> 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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>> Charlie Schweik
>>
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