[OSGeo Oceania] [Oceania-Board] Geospatial Council of Australia - thoughts?

[John Bryant]

Adam wrote:
>
> Awards - personally not my thing and (IMO) about the last thing a
> community org should focus on. I've just returned from a couple of
> years in Norway dealing with a community that is strongly cult of
> personality (rockstar/award/??) based, and it sucks. Where was the
> community discussion about awards in OSGeo Oceania?
>

I feel similarly. I think it's nice to recognise people's successes and
wins, but industry body awards feel like an echo chamber to me, reinforcing
in-group relationships. I've always admired OSGeo for its focus on reaching
the broader community, creating an inviting and open space where anyone can
participate regardless of affiliations.

The APSEA awards seem like particularly odd bedfellows for OSGeo Oceania...
despite the "Asia-Pacific" name, they're predominantly (entirely?)
Australian. Not making a criticism but it doesn't seem in step with OSGeo
Oceania's community.

Ohyeah, an MoU *has to be* public and reviewable by the community.
> OSGeo's MoU with OGC is a good example of this practice.
>

+1

On Thu, 30 Mar 2023 at 08:14, Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

> Oh, sorry – you mean VGI? That was me the academic speaking - Volunteered
> Geographic Information, e.g., OSM, or any other geo content (e.g.,
> Mapillary Cam data, or OpenDrone Map, or other) that is volunteered by
> people, as opposed to a “super” category - User Generated Content, which is
> any stuff that may be gathered from people out there, even unknowingly
> (some call this Coerced Geographic Content …)
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> Agreed with your other points – and this makes it quite tricky to write a
> good MoU 😊, but there is hope,
>
> M.
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> *From: *Adam Steer <adam.d.steer at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Thursday, 30 March 2023 at 10:05 am
> *To: *Martin Tomko <tomkom at unimelb.edu.au>
> *Cc: *OSGeo Oceania Board <oceania-board at lists.osgeo.org>, OSgeo -
> Oceania <oceania at lists.osgeo.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Oceania-Board] [OSGeo Oceania] Geospatial Council of
> Australia - thoughts?
>
> Hi Martin
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> Unfortunately unsurprising, I hope we can all work together to be better.
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> Noncompetition for grants is a great addition to an MoU, alongside
> preventing channeling of OSGeo, OSM, HOT etc (global) funds to non-open
> activities. Leading naturally to the principle of open data from
> open-branded activity; and hackathons resulting in PRs to existing projects
> rather than fork -> rebrand -> claim.
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> What does "VGC" expand to?
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> Cheers,
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>
> Adam
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