Hi Arnulf! What a great resource! This is exactly what is needed to allow everyone who is interested in OSGeo to promote its case. I'm grateful for the collection of definitions and concepts because I was asked to give a seminar on FOSS software during a local conference here in Uppsala. Why I, a simple FOSS user was asked? Well, that's related to the "Use cases for FOSS-GIS in universities" thread - there are simply no other people around who use FOSS software in GIS.
Cheers, Henning PS: I suggest "consolidate" instead of "bundle" in 1. under Education and long term outreach. Arnulf Christl (OSGeo) wrote: > Hi All, > I have started a new page in a tentative try at defining Advocacy for OSGeo. > http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Advocacy > > Please feel free to add, remove, discuss at will. > > I imagine something like: http://www.freebsd.org/advocacy/ with links and > general information, gallery, etc. As we do not want to start yet another > workgroup we do this in the Visibility and Promotion Committee (who the > f*** gave it this name?) in short VisCom. > > We (VisCom) will try to pick up a few threads that have been started in > the past and looked promising but then have been abandoned due to pending > "real" work. I would be very interested in getting a little unreal again > and actively position OSGeo mission and brand in the market. We have > already done a good job by just being there but this could be done more > actively. > * http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/WebCom_OSGeo_Site_Focus > * http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Open_Source_Training_Providers > etc. many more > > Be prepared to do things if you suggest them (this is a try a preventing > more great ideas spring into life and then wither away because "OSGeo" did > not pick them up). > > If you are interested please consider joining the VisCom mailing list: > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/viscom-dev > > Best regards, > > > -- Henning Lorenz Uppsala University Department of Earth Sciences Villavägen 16 752 36 Uppsala Sweden phone: +46 (0)18 471 23 24 mobile: +46 (0)733 622 655 fax: +46 (0)18 50 11 10 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG-key: http://blackhole.pca.dfn.de:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=Henning+Lorenz _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss