I agree it is a bit strange P Kishor: I helped organise a very small foss4g-au "unconference" in 2012 with Nathan.
A couple weeks ago Rob Emanuele asked if I could help out with foss4g-na - not sure what I will be doing yet. Rob is a passionate scala developer, and it is great to see that enthusiasm directed towards holding an event. I would rather make use of this time to hear tips and tricks for running a successful regional foss4g event. So if we are playing with a football, at least we are on the same team. Cheers, Jody Jody Garnett On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 2:42 PM, P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > My guess is, just as I do, most Charter Members find this entire thread > very alien. For us who don't go to FOSS4G, OSGeo means something completely > different (here is where I disagree with an earlier email—I think it was Jo > Cook—that folks know OSGeo products but not OSGeo). To suddenly hear of all > this chatter about FOSS4G being used as a football between OSGeo and > LocationTech (an org I heard about for the first time also in this thread) > is like waking up at night to find a bunch of strangers chatting in your > living room. > > Definitely, involving Charter Members would be a very sound and nice thing > to do. > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Steven Feldman <shfeld...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Before we get to the stage of polling charter members and local chapters, >> it would be helpful if more of the charter membership and local chapters >> chipped in with their opinions. Many seem to have been very quiet, i am >> sure they must have a view >> ______ >> Steven >> >> >> On 17 Sep 2014, at 20:00, conference-europe-requ...@lists.osgeo.org >> wrote: >> >> *From: *Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cann...@supsi.ch> >> *Subject: **Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Hacking OSGeo* >> *Date: *17 September 2014 19:22:24 BST >> *To: *P Kishor <punk.k...@gmail.com> >> *Cc: *OSGeo Discussions <discuss@lists.osgeo.org> >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > > -- > Puneet Kishor > Manager, Science and Data Policy > Creative Commons > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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