[Webcom] Motion: Ian Edwards joins WebCom

[Ian Edwards]

Hi Cameron,

I've always been +1 agreeing with you on this. In fact it's the reason I
joined WebCom.

But there have been some quiet counter arguments voiced off list. Is WebCom
happy to vote on this so that we can progress to a solution? Or does this
need approval higher up?  Chris - what are your thoughts?
On 29 Jul 2013 23:01, "Cameron Shorter" <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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>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
>> >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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>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>> I set the clouds in motion - turn up   | Frank Warmerdam,
>> warmerdam at pobox.com
>> light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam
>> and watch the world go round - Rush    | Geospatial Software Developer
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