[Webcom] Motion: Ian Edwards joins WebCom

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi Ian,

I strongly recommend that the OSGeo Project descriptions link directly 
to the OSGeo Project Overviews, for a few reasons:

1. Historically, our OSGeo pages have become dated and then irrelevant. 
So whatever we put in place should avoid this happening again. When 
creating a page, we should endeavour to ensure that the material is 
written in a "timeless" fashion, or we should commit to, or piggy back 
upon, an ongoing maintenance process. If you are to edit OSGeo-Live docs 
to create a new set of docs, then you are committing yourself (or 
someone else) to repeat this step with every OSGeo-Live release, 
otherwise the docs will become dated. Hence I suggest linking directly 
to OSGeo-Live.

2.One way for OSGeo to help build its various endeavours is through 
cross-promotion, and one form of cross promotion is for the OSGeo 
website to reference OSGeo-Live. This is a simple thing to introduce, 
and also something that would be valuable for OSGeo-Live, and hence 
valuable for all the people and projects who have contributed to 
building the OSGeo-Live Project Overviews.


On 29/07/13 22:52, Ian Edwards wrote:
> Hi Webcom,
>
> I'm pleased to join you all at the "public-presentation" end of OSGeo!
>
> To date I've only met Arnulf and Tyler in person, but hopefully that 
> may change at FOSS4G this September in the UK?
>
> Mid-next week I'm intending to start updating the current details on 
> the various OSGeo project pages more up to date. It was suggested by 
> Carmon Shorter that we simply use the OSGeo Live pages, but there have 
> been a couple of concerns that a) the main OSGeo site navigation would 
> be lost, b) some of the text in the project descriptions are specific 
> to OSGeo Live (not general to the projects themselves).
>
> However, the OSGeo Live pages are consistent and up to date. Therefore 
> for this round of updates I intend to be guided by the OSGeo Live 
> pages, but modify the content accordingly. Hopefully this will inform 
> a more suitable long term solution.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Ian
>
> Ian Edwards
> OSGeo UK
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com 
> <mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com>> wrote:
>
>     Folks,
>
>     This motion passes with support from Frank, Anne, Arnulf and Jeff.
>
>     I will work with Ian to get him setup for access.
>
>     Best regards,
>     Frank
>
>
>     On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:16 AM, Frank Warmerdam
>     <warmerdam at pobox.com <mailto:warmerdam at pobox.com>>wrote:
>
>     > Folks,
>     >
>     > Pursuant to the Ian's offer in another thread, this is a formal
>     motion to
>     > add Ian to WebCom and to grant him full admin access to Drupal, etc.
>     >
>     > Motion: Ian Edwards joins WebCom
>     >
>     > +1 Frank
>     >
>     > Best regards,
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