Jody, your response is perfect. I do get upset too often (or actually,
I take quite a lot, but eventually am set off). I apologize for this, I
will try to be better. I am slowly improving. But I could be better.
To get myself back on track, I decided a few minutes ago (mentioned on
the Board list) by doing some little things for OSGeo right now. And
you'll be happy to hear that one of them is Incubation-related: give a
push with the pycsw team for the next steps (code review etc), as I am
their mentor.
Thanks again for being the voice of reason Jody. Let's all do as Jody
says, and I am sure these tricky points will work themselves out.
-jeff
On 2014-09-15 4:57 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:
Well I don't like you get upset Jeff, you are correct that "patches"
speak louder than emails.
If I could put a plug in for the incubation committee - we would really
love some more volunteers. We have a couple projects waiting to "get in"
and all we need is a "mentor" to be a friendly voice/email contact.
The stuff we do at OSGeo can be very intimidating (starting a steering
committee - gasp!) or require sensitivity (trade mark conflict). Having
a mentor to email or Skype can be of great assistance.
--
Jody Garnett
On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jeff McKenna
<jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com <mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>>
wrote:
Why is there this sudden need to point out things like this? This
is the part that makes my heart drop. (and the underlying meaning
of the subject of this email) Instead of pointing out issues, maybe
those making these noises can spend that time on the marketing
committee, or tackling on the membership issue.
I personally have no problem with LocationTech, in fact I agree they
play a very important role for businesses. I do have a problem
however with pointing out problems with OSGeo and our baby, FOSS4G;
instead of pointing out problems, I feel those same people could be
diving into helping OSGeo grow and pick up the ball themselves.
-jeff
On 2014-09-15 2:56 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:
Why is this not true? I think you are misinterpreting here Jeff.
Membership in OSGeo is a single person. Yes this person can
belong to a company or run their own company, but membership is
still personal.
Bart
Sent from my iPhone
On 15 sep. 2014, at 19:45, Jeff McKenna
<jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com
<mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com>__> wrote:
On 2014-09-15 1:22 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote:
the members in OSGeo are individuals and the members in
Eclipse/LocationTech are businesses
Daniel this statement is not true, regarding OSGeo. OSGeo
members are made up of all walks of life, and many are
running private businesses all around the world. I have
visited their organizations/offices myself in my FOSS4G
travels throughout the years.
However I cannot change how you feel.
This part is unfortunate, these strong statements made
publicly, which I feel are made to divide our community.
Let me reinforce: our OSGeo community and our FOSS4G events
(of all sizes) are geared for everyone and anyone, with no
sole focus on one type of community. And as the President
of OSGeo, I am happy to represent all of the members, of any
kind :)
-jeff
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