[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Board] Your input needed for Nominations

2007-07-16 Thread Jo Walsh
hi Tyler, all, I recall last year the Board nominations + accompanying text were posted to the main discuss list, not just to the CRO figure . That seemed to spur people on to think about who they might want to see on the board. http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Board_Election_2007#Nominations now

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO OGC spec development

2007-07-16 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Hi all, Last week I attended the Open Geospatial Consortium Technical Committee (OGC-TC) meeting in Paris. For those not to familiar with this meeting, it consists of a series of Working Group (WG) meetings that mostly run around the development of specifications (or standards if you

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO OGC spec development

2007-07-16 Thread Raj Singh
Also remember that OGC has made its Mass Market Working Group discussion list public: http://mail.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/mass-market-geo This is the best way for non-members to get in on certain discussions, particularly the ones Jeroen mentions. That allows individuals to put

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO OGC spec development

2007-07-16 Thread Jody Garnett
Thanks for the update Jeroen - going to add one more to your list... Jeroen Ticheler wrote: With this email I would like to touch upon two issues that I think are relevant to OSGEO. I hope bringing this up can trigger some discussion on how OSGEO would best benefit from the OGC spec

[OSGeo-Discuss] Should old Project Steering Committee members be put out to pasture?

2007-07-16 Thread Cameron Shorter
One of your developers has been very active, contributed lots of code, advice, documentation but then their priorities change. They haven't got as much time for the project, or maybe the project grows and they can't keep up with increased email traffic. The developer still holds a lot of