Hi Gert-Jan,
A lot of good topics have been brought up in the last few weeks, and a
lot of discussions have occurred, as you mentioned.
I feel the whole community recently 'took a breath' about all this.
Which of course was needed.
I wish I have all the answers for you, but I don't; to be honest, we are
all working together as a community through this. Take a glace at the
topics for the next Board meeting[1], and you can see there is lots on
our ('our' being everyone's) plate, so to speak. (you'll notice that I
had already had the 2016 topic on the agenda today, before you hinted at
this publicly)
I know for myself, on this coming Friday, Andrew Ross (LocationTech) and
I will meet for an hour to talk, which we both agree is a great thing
(as Jachym often tells me, talking is really good). And I realize that
this has nothing to do with me, but as Jachym mentioned, has everything
to do with what the community wants, what the OSGeo Charter Members
want, where the community wants to go with FOSS4G. Andrew and I will
talk, but no decisions will be made without the community's support of
course. Jachym's idea for a community survey is wonderful in this
regard, in my opinion.
I'm sorry for all the confusion lately, but as a few people pointed out
to me, these are all good things, good issues, and can really be called
'growing pains' (sometimes as we grow there are difficult things we may
face, and we will grow stronger as a result). I should note here that I
am not implying that LocationTech is difficult, opposite in fact, Andrew
has been very accommodating. The difficult thing is coming together as
a community and helping guide the foundation along the path, and making
sure everyone's needs are met. That LocationTech is here is a good
thing. That is for sure.
Our community will grow stronger from all this.
Sorry for the clichés. But I really feel this.
Yours,
-jeff
[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2014-10-16
--
Jeff McKenna
President, OSGeo
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
On 2014-10-01 1:30 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
I'm, about to port the survey into different survey system
to me, (and I already said it), the discussion is not about "to
locationtech or not to locationtech", but about osgeo itself, what do
we want, how do we want it, therefore the survey
just my < 0.02
Jachym
2014-10-01 18:04 GMT+02:00 Gert-Jan van der Weijden <gert-...@osgeo.nl>:
Hi all,
Last month there has been a lot of discussion on the subject whether or not
to collaborate with LocationTech in organizing the FOSS4G event (and if so,
under what conditions, and whats the goals of FOSS4G could and should be)
As the discussion spanned over at least 3 newsgroups it was not an easy one
to follow. (unless you're subscribed to all OSgeo-newsgroups, which I'm not)
The discussion seems to be over. However 2 monuments of this discussion
remain
1. A wiki page at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Conference_Options_2014
(assembled by Cameron Shorter)
2. A google doc based survey (by Jacky Cepicky)
Can someone explain to me (and others) what
a) the current status of the discussion is
b) where to find this status ;-)
c) what the road map for this discussion is. I guess the deadline is
february 2015, when the Request For Proposal for 2016 is due ;-)
Greetings,
Gert-Jan
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