On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:40:17PM -0500, Howard Butler wrote: > > On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: > >> Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo over >> the next 3 and 5 years. I'd really like to hear thoughts on the >> matter >> and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst >> committees, projects, chapters and the board. >> >> It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming election >> to >> get a sense of where other members are thinking these days. > > > My measurement of success for OSGeo and priorities I hope it shares in > the next 3-5 years are the following three items: > - Continued expansion of the local chapters. Local chapters make OSGeo > real in the sense that mailing lists, websites, and an IRC channel can't. > - The conference continues uninterrupted for the next five years, and we > start to use it our central fundraising piece. > - Cross-project collaboration, like the journal, osgeo4w, metacrs, > benchmarking, system administration, and geodata continues to be > fostered by us. From my biased developer's perspective, these have been > OSGeo's biggest accomplishments along with the local chapter development > and consolidation of the conference.
I was going to write a post in response to this, but after reading Howard's, I realize I hardly need to: essentially, his opinions and position mirror mine 100%. Best Regards, -- Christopher Schmidt Web Developer _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss