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+1 Arnulf (OSGeo President Emeritus) On 16.12.2015 14:29, Jeroen Ticheler wrote: > Thanks Ian for this email! I fully support what you are writing. It > is very much time to stop the negative sentiments around > LocationTech, FOSS4G conference offers that had LocationTech as a > partner and so forth. Constructive collaboration is all we need > within OSGeo AND with others in the (geo-)community. > > I’ve heard negative sentiments about the FOSS4G 2017 selection > process. As a member of the Conference Committee I would like to > state here that I am convinced the LocationTech issue was not as > decisive for most members as people outside the committee seem to > think. It was an aspect discussed thoroughly, as were other aspects > of the proposals. > > I hope the Face to Face meeting end of January by the OSGeo board > hosted in our GeoCat office will be constructive and positive from > all angles. But at this stage I also call upon the OSGeo Board to > come forward with a statement that helps to unify the OSGeo community > and give directions. There seems to be a vacuum in the leadership > right now with Jeff’s sudden resignation that should be filled as > soon as possible. > > Greetings, Jeroen > > ____________________________________________________ ** ** *** * * > *Try GeoCat* * * Bridge© *** * An extension to ArcGIS© to instantly > publish data and metadata on GeoServer, MapServer, PostGIS and > GeoNetwork. * * See http://geocat.net <http://geocat.net/> for more > details. * > > Jeroen Ticheler GeoCat bv Veenderweg 13 6721 WD Bennekom The > Netherlands Tel: +31 (0)6 81286572 http://geocat.net > > <http://www.oxfamnovib.nl/en-home.html?language=engels> > <http://www.oxfamnovib.nl/en-home.html?language=engels> >> On 16 dec. 2015, at 12:29, Ian Edwards <iedwards....@gmail.com >> <mailto:iedwards....@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> /"there seems to be a fairly strident Location Tech bashing going >> on"/ >> >> This negative "bashing" of other organisations has to completely >> stop because it is having a massive negative impact on OSGeo. >> >> We've recently lost a respected former board member (who has >> resigned his charter member status) and the OSGeo president, both >> in relation to how we've conducted ourselves in relation to other >> organisations in the community. These internal losses are not due >> to there being other organisations in the geospatial world, nor how >> they are acting - but instead our losses are due to how we >> ourselves are thinking and behaving. >> >> OSGeo should positively support all elements of the geospatial >> community including users, developers and also other organisations >> to the fullest and best of our ability. By doing this we become >> stronger (instead of weaker) and will remain useful, relevant and >> of interest to the community who will continue to invest their >> energy and efforts with us and recognise our unique value and >> position. >> >> In relation to LocationTech - similar divisions exist across the >> entire Open Source world (take a look at LibreOffice and >> OpenOffice, or MariaDB and MySQL). The broard "FOSS4G" community >> (encompassing both OSGeo and LocationTech) is not alone in facing >> this, and my hope is that OSGeo can once again be a beacon to the >> rest of the open source world and show how best to embrace these >> differences, understand the strengths and weakness in both camps, >> and work together for the positive benefit of our diverse >> community. >> >> >> -- Ian Edwards >> >> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Puneet Kishor >> <punk.k...@gmail.com <mailto:punk.k...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Pat Tressel <ptres...@myuw.net >>> <mailto:ptres...@myuw.net>> wrote: >>> >>> If you want to point at a company as being the Evil Empire these >>> days, you'd be more accurate pointing at Apple (cancelling >>> licenses for Mac clones, suicides at Foxconn, restrictions on >>> getting apps on iTunes, removing fitness tracker products from >>> their stores because they might compete with the Apple Watch, >>> etc. -- do a search for "apple anti competitive practices") >> >> You were doing fine until above. The rest of your post is indeed >> very relevant and useful and argues correctly for sanity instead of >> knee-jerk accusations (until the above assertions, of course). >> >> The point is, there seems to be a fairly strident Location Tech >> bashing going on, and it is getting to be tiring. Let's stick to >> keeping OSGeo a fun, useful champion of free and open geospatial >> without becoming anti-anything-free, partisan and possibly >> irrelevant. >> >> -- Puneet Kishor Just Another Creative Commoner >> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing >> list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >> >> _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing >> list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org> >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > - -- Arnulf Christl (Director) The metaspatial Institute Certification: Open Source - Open Data - Open Standards http://www.metaspatial.net/en/institute -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlZxrUYACgkQXmFKW+BJ1b1kqgCfdWcZB3cqVQFpLsWpifOFUCd6 fo4AnA+6VNzo0P/Ns343nG7q3FgjbjbO =E2fa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss