Puneet, I agree with you, this is an "hot" decision that cannot be taken by a small group of people without at least have heard about what the *OSGeo community* think about.
In this tread I have learnt a lot on LocationTech and on motivation that pushed some OSGeo members to embrace also LocationTech. I can really feel the desire to help and foster geospatial open source software from those guys. BTW, I also believe that FOSS4G is the OSGeo event. For this reason I believe that if OSGeo want to change things and *share* it with LocationTech (not just let them organize it in the name of), we need a deep OSGeo internal discussion at all level: Local Chapters, Charter members, Committees and finally the Board which has the responsibility to vote on this. So, my proposal is: 1) Have a formal proposal from LocationTech which explain terms of collaboration, commitments and guarantees 2) Publish publicly this proposal for a period (let's say 2 week) for people to look into this proposal 3) Call for a vote from charter members 4) Call for a letter of position letter from each committee and local Chapters 5) Publish publicly the results 6) Discuss it on the next board meeting and finally have a vote and a letter of motivation from the Board BTW, the FOSS4G-EUROPE website (http://foss4g-e.org/) states clearly at the home page: "OSGeo's European Conference on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial". I hope this doesn't hurt anyone, and brings positive point of discussion. It is just my personal thought as a new board member, and sorry if I've lost some best practice currently in place. Maxi 2014-09-17 19:14 GMT+02:00 P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com>: > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Jeff McKenna < > jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote: > >> I am also pondering of suggesting to the Board, later when we get to that >> point, of possibly querying the Charter Members, in a "referendum" of >> sorts. Not sure, I'm just speaking openly here. > > > > > Please do. As I gently indicated in an earlier email, all these > discussions are very new to me, so it is reasonable to assume they are new > to many other Charter Members around the world as well. Given that most of > this thread seems to be driven by FOSS4G, a conf I have little fondness for > anymore, the conversation sounds very alien to me. Esp. so since it hints > at changing the nature of OSGeo. > > Getting the input of Charter Members worldwide will be noisy and > difficult, but that is how communities are. Whoever wants to provide an > input should have a visible and welcome opportunity to do so. Plus, it will > be a good chance to "use" the Charter Members for something other than just > voting, for a change ;) > > > -- > Puneet Kishor > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- *Massimiliano Cannata* Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica Responsabile settore Geomatica Istituto scienze della Terra Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana Campus Trevano, CH - 6952 Canobbio Tel. +41 (0)58 666 62 14 Fax +41 (0)58 666 62 09 massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch *www.supsi.ch/ist <http://www.supsi.ch/ist>*
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