[MSF-Discuss] Foundation naming

[Pericles S. Nacionales]

Perry's hand is raised.

On Thursday 22 December 2005 19:25, Gary Lang wrote:
> 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.
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> The names we had before are below. I'd like to see some folks from
> Refractions, Intergraph, and other like-minded people there.
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> All those willing to be in Phoenix on Feb. 3 raise your hands.
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> Gary (raises hand)
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> The signers of the open letter:
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> 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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> From: discuss-bounces at lists.mapserverfoundation.org
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.mapserverfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Mike
> Davis
> Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 1:47 PM
> To: Frank Warmerdam (External)
> Cc: discuss at lists.mapserverfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [MSF-Discuss] Foundation naming
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> 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)
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> 	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.
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> Excellent idea, if only we all lived in the same town... :-)

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Pericles S. Nacionales
Conservation Biology Program
University of Minnesota
e-mail: naci0002 at umn.edu