Dear All I agree completely with Margherita. The most of people are asking themselves what it is happening. Please who was and is involved, please write the history of what has happened on a wiki page. When the plot is finalised the charter members vote. Maria
Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli Vice Rector for Como Campus - Politecnico di Milano Public Participation GIS: a FOSS architecture enabling field-data collection http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2014.887150#.UwPVuIVnibF ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications" - Co-chair - OSGeo Charter Member - ICA - OSGeo Advisory Board Member - SIFET Scientific Commitee Member Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALIA) Tel. +39-031-3327336 - Mob. +39-328-0023867 - fax. +39-031-3327321 e-mail1: <mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it> maria.brove...@polimi.it<mailto:maria.brove...@polimi.it> e-mail2: prorettr...@como.polimi.it<mailto:prorettr...@como.polimi.it> ________________________________ Da: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org <discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Margherita Di Leo <direg...@gmail.com> Inviato: giovedì 18 settembre 2014 10.13 A: Jachym Cepicky Cc: <discuss@lists.osgeo.org>; conference; osgeo-board List; Steven Feldman Oggetto: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Polling charter members Dear All, On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepi...@gmail.com<mailto:jachym.cepi...@gmail.com>> wrote: Just noting, discussion about relationship between LocationTech and OSGeo is here since 2012 (IIRC). That many people did not pain attention to it (actually including myself up to certain time), is not fault of OSGeo .. or LocationTech. It's just actually boring topic. We are community of (mostly) developers and users of FOSS4G (not conference, but software in this case). This sounds like politics .. who would pay attention? So, now we are here, things are happening, we can finally talk to whole community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good. If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position. If anyone is wondering why most charter members remained silent about the topic, here i can offer my 2 cents.. It is true that this is a long story, but it's hard to find all the elements needed for judgement. I'd ask those that have personally followed the steps, to kindly fill a wiki page with the most important facts. Another thing is that, for those that couldn't make it at FOSS4G, it is (I believe) not easy to understand on what exactly the community of charter members is being called to express their opinion. What does it mean "to cooperate" and what does it imply for the organizations involved? Is it a case by case cooperation what you're talking about? why it looks like is the FOSS4G event at stake here? Thanks for any pointers -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu<mailto:margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu> Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.
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