[OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation

2008-06-13 Thread RAVI KUMAR
Hi All, some new blood is added to the OSGeo charter members, and now we are poised to get new board members too. If one can remember, there was a discussion on the geographical representation of the board members after the last election. It is pertinent to have a global representation of

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation

2008-06-13 Thread Jeroen Ticheler
Hi all, I have recently seen several discussions where the geographical representation sentiment, perceptions toward OSGeo being US or North America centric and so on and so forth get in (the way). So I could pick one randomly to react on. I'll pick this because of its title :-) We should

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Board nomination

2008-06-13 Thread RAVI KUMAR
Hi All, Its a pleasure to nominate this dedicated environmentalist on OSGeo board who is also probably one of the first to use GRASS GIS in India. Name : S. NARENDRA PRASAD, Ph.D Secretory , OSGeo India chapter Designation : Senior Principal Scientist Head Address :

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation

2008-06-13 Thread andrea giacomelli
one comment for Jorge, and one for Jeroen - and a half a suggestion (food for thought)... please see below... 2008/6/13 Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/6/13 Jeroen Ticheler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, .. So my call upon the community: forget about geographical

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Driving licenses for geofoss?

2008-06-13 Thread Silvia Franceschi
Ciao Andrea, If I may, I would suggest that we first wait to close out the test with one application. Getting through the process has exposed some interesting steps that took long in our experience. The same steps may be streamlined once we/somebody decided to replicate them on other

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Chickens, Boards and Export Restrictions

2008-06-13 Thread Paul Ramsey
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12-Jun-08, at 9:20 AM, Paul Ramsey wrote: - Putting our policy online (presumably copied from Apache shamelessly) in a findable location, to conform to the legal norms of our host nation. I'll have to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Driving licenses for geofoss?

2008-06-13 Thread andrea giacomelli
ciao Silvia - this is to respond to the second part of your mail: 2008/6/13 Silvia Franceschi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ciao Andrea, Last but not least, I also want to hear feedback from the first person who will get his/her license out of our test. Again, this will help in tuning things on

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation

2008-06-13 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 13-Jun-08, at 1:26 AM, Jorge Gaspar Sanz Salinas wrote: Hi I can't be more agree with we should seek the best people to represent the foundation, based on the merits and commitment with the usual free software values, rather than a geographic representation. Of course having elected people

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] The New Board to be and Global representation

2008-06-13 Thread Jeff McKenna
I see the annual FOSS4G conference as very important for meeting active OSGeo members from around the world. To me these meetings are directly related to the board to be and global representation. This year's South Africa conference (and the following one in Australia) will create many