Jeff Can you explain what the "Website Management Team" is intending to do? Is it a group of WordPress and hosting people who will keep the site running? Surely the content of the site should be the responsibility of the Marketing Committee?
Steven > On 21 Sep 2017, at 19:55, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Comments inline: >> Thank you Ben, this is absolutely correct: we have an amazing vibrant >> community, and we need a front-end website that fosters and promotes OSGeo >> projects (especially those in OSGeo incubation as well as OSGeo Community >> projects) and OSGeo initiatives such as the Summer of Code. Period. Full >> stop. This is what our community is good at, and why we are so desired >> today. From experience I can tell you that this struggle, that is being put >> forth here, will just separate our community (you can see it is already) and >> make the community weaker. > > I am not sure I see this as a struggle Jeff. > > Outreach will not weaken our community, it is literally what our community is > for - to advocate for open source. Our vision is: Empower everyone with open > source geospatial > > If our community focuses only ourselves we will not be meeting our objective. > >> Let us help our OSGeo community grow. Don't worry about competing >> organizations (trust me they are fine, they have big money for marketing and >> teams of people working on that), just focus on OSGeo and our wonderful >> community. > > I don't think anyone was worried about competing organizations having a hard > time :) > > We are worried about individuals that have only ever had a chance to hear > from proprietary software. We want these individuals to have a chance to hear > from us about a better approach to geospatial technology - specifically to > hear about our projects and the benefits of not only using open source but > being part of an open source community. > >> I am setting up an OSGeo "Website Management Team" now, to help bring the >> focus on the OSGeo community, manage the website (and WordPress theme), >> security, backups, content etc, and will propose this to OSGeo's Systems >> committee and OSGeo Board; for the longterm maintenance of the website. I >> imagine during this maintenance process we will be removing these >> unnecessary promotions, and focus on the OSGeo community (us). We'll leave >> promotion of other things for those with the big money ha, as they have the >> big funding for their products, as you mentioned. We will focus on the >> OSGeo community. > > Jeff we kind of got stuck on this one, the SAC motion to host the beta > website is waiting on your proposal. I assume you got busy with the CRO > responsibilities, do you know when you will be available with a proposal for > SAC to consider? > > I would kindly ask you to go over the though behind the website content - I > do not know specifically what you are referring to as unnecessary. If you are > talking about pivoting the website to focus on "us" rather than promotion and > outreach then I am really sad and feel like you have missed the point of the > exercise. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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