Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Does Open Source need a supervisory government body?

2008-01-26 Thread Bruce . Bannerman
IMO: Thanks Ivan, Agreed. While government can certainly incubate, sponsor and contribute to projects. My personal opinion is that they are better run by 'the community'. If the project is good enough, it should get sufficient supporters and hopefully be picked up by a 'central authority' li

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Does Open Source need a supervisory government body?

2008-01-26 Thread Bruce . Bannerman
IMO: Thanks for the comments Michael, As I said in my post, I was being deliberately provocative with choice of subject heading. Yes it is certainly possible that I've missed the intent of the author's comments. It is only a small portion of an excellent document. However, I also have a v

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job Postings / Job Wanted

2008-01-26 Thread Mateusz Loskot
Michael P. Gerlek wrote: +1 to Frank (as usual...) -- the more overhead we put into this, the less likely it will be sustainable. Pick a mailing list -- either Discuss or a new one -- and I think we've already got at least two volunteer moderators. +1 and I'm willing to offer some time to be a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Job Postings / Job Wanted

2008-01-26 Thread Lorenzo Becchi
wow, the thing is getting bigger... I18n, is a great idea but I still feel that a set of mailing list can do honestly the dirty job. I volunteer, hopefully I'll not be the only one, to moderate the first English mailing list. ciao Lorenzo Tim Bowden wrote: On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 18:50 +0100