[OSGeo-Standards] What terms should go into an OSGeo Glossary?

[adam steer]

Hi Cameron, Ron, standardsfolks

I think its fantastic to look at how OGC and ISO ’speak geo’ and if not
unify, at least have some common ways of translation. Sound familiar? It
is! The same old pattern, a bit like OGC standard-dom or pep8 (I can’t
relate to ISO standards because I don’t have bandwidth to head there…)

I’d also like to see ‘do-ocracy' defined differently. This version:

Do-ochracy: The principle where the person who volunteers to do the work
gets to decide how it gets done.

…to me looks like 'say-ocracy’.

A do-ocracy looks to me like a system whereby the person who volunteers to
do work curates the work into existence taking into account the manifold
points of view within the OSGeo ecosystem, winning some ideological battles
and losing others along the way, and stepping back / allowing others to
take the reins if there are blockages or bandwidth issues. In that spirit
howvabout:

Do-ocracy: the principle where the person who volunteers to do work for an
organisation works toward the completion of that work taking into account
the diversity of views and values of the organisation

…which (IMO) covers ‘doing’ in terms of both personally doing, and
‘curating’ as in coordinating work if not doing personally.

Regards,

Adam

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