educational strategy: +1 for this, and I think much of it is needed in the developing world. OSGeo educating through local chapters to evangelise and bring all users of GIS to understand our phylosophy is a good thrust for the future too. Ravi Kumar
--- On Mon, 28/9/09, Massimo Di Stefano <massimodisa...@yahoo.it> wrote: > From: Massimo Di Stefano <massimodisa...@yahoo.it> > Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Next 5 years for OSGeo > To: "OSGeo Discussions" <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> > Date: Monday, 28 September, 2009, 11:14 PM > Hi All, > > I agree with you i think we need a "local chapter" policy, > to redistribute knowledge and organizational experience > through the LC, helping ourselves to organize hack meetings > and local conferences. > > I think we also need to focus on an "educational strategy" > to promote FOSS inside university departments. > A lot of people uses proprietary sw for their works not > because they think > the proprietary software is better than the FOSS, but > simply because they learned a proprietary application during > their study and continue using them without considering > other sw. > > (cracking sw is too easy and in my experience I see > teachers even apply cracks or password cracked apps to their > students) > > So i hope to see in the next 5 years, OSGeo will improve in > this direction, giving the right weight to an educational > strategy. > > Regards, > > Massimo. > Il giorno 28/set/09, alle ore 18:17, Christopher Schmidt ha > scritto: > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > From cricket scores to your friends. Try the Yahoo! India Homepage! http://in.yahoo.com/trynew _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss