The board is aware of public perception and I trust it will be on the agenda for f2f meeting.
I think we can do a bit better than a statement - in our last board meeting Micheal Smith has volunteered to be our OSGeo representative to LocationTech. OSGeo is a member of LocationTech and we have been remiss in keeping communication going in an official capacity (by supplying a representative). We can issue a press release to that effect to have a publicly visible sign of communication/collaboration. Thank you for reassurance on the selection process Jeroen - all three were very strong bids. -- Jody Garnett On 16 December 2015 at 05:29, Jeroen Ticheler <jeroen.tiche...@geocat.net> 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> 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> > wrote: > >> >> >> > On Dec 16, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Pat Tressel <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 >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > 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 >
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