[MSF-Discuss] Foundation naming

[Gary Lang]

Question: Are the signers of the open letter thought to be good
representatives of the MapServer community? If so, I'd like to suggest
that we reconstitute that meeting, and open it up to more people. I
propose that we meet on February 3.

 

The names we had before are below. I'd like to see some folks from
Refractions, Intergraph, and other like-minded people there.

 

All those willing to be in Phoenix on Feb. 3 raise your hands.

 

 

Gary (raises hand)

 

 

The signers of the open letter:

Steve Lime, Chair, MapServer Technical Steering Committee (MTSC)
Yewondwossen Assefa, MTSC Member
Howard Butler, MTSC Member
Daniel Morissette, MTSC Member
Perry Nacionales, MTSC Member
Frank Warmerdam, MTSC Member
Tom Burk, University of Minnesota
David McIlhagga, DM Solutions Group
Tyler Mitchell
Claude Philipona, Camptocamp SA and FOSS4G 2006 organizing committee
Gary Lang, Autodesk

 

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.mapserverfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Mike
Davis
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:47 PM
To: Frank Warmerdam (External)
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Subject: Re: [MSF-Discuss] Foundation naming

I would like to enable smaller contributions, despite the fact that the
majority will probably come from larger coorperate sponsership.  For
instance I have a very small side business and would be very interested
in contributing an anual donation (roughly equivilant to the
maintainance fee of a certain Internet Mapping Software).  Developing a
way to recognize the contributions (financial or technical) of smaller
doners can really help keep interest up (just ask PBS) 

	
	I really think we need to empower some people to get in a room
	and come up with a coherent plan that they find reasonable, and 
	then bring that back to the community for comment.

 

Excellent idea, if only we all lived in the same town... :-) 


 

 

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