On 8/5/2011 5:15 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
With a very encouraging list of nominees for the open board positions,
it might help (at least me!) if some could share their thoughts about
OSGeo and its future direction.
Sorry for my delay in responding, Tyler – I was traveling.
Like ot
I would like to thank Tyler Mitchell for nominating me, and I am honored to
be standing with a great group of candidates, all of whom have a longer
history of involvement with OSGeo than I do, I think. I have put in a lot of
hours as FOSS4G chair over the past year though, so am trying to catch up
Some Views:
Business initiatives and knack to push up OSGeo's reserves are for sure needed
among qualities..
But a Global vision for billions (not money but people) at the margins of the
developing world, makes it sustainable.
GIS Usage vs GIS Development (software), is different in different
On 2011-08-09, at 12:56 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Charter members should carefully consider whom to vote - the board
> should be
We probably each have our own list of the most important things to consider,
so I share mine as well. :) My votes will be less influenced by global
coverage or
Some FOSS4G workshops are filling up fast. If you've been holding out to get
registered, you might want to do it sooner than later in order to secure access
to the workshops you most desire. OpenLayers app development is sold out,
looks like Intro to PostGIS isn't far behind!
Tyler___
Survey (only 2 questions I think) re: datasets and industry you are in.
Tyler
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> From: GITA Education Committee
> Date: August 8, 2011 3:05:31 PM PDT
> To: tmitch...@osgeo.org
> Subject: GITA Education Commitee Datasets Survey
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I'm on vacation right now, so this will have to be short -- I'll write
something more up when I get home in a few days, but for now let me just make
some bullet points:
* Thank you to Aaron for the nomination. It's a privilege to be nominated, and
doubly so to be in company of so many other no
Dear All,
Firstly, it's an honour to be even nominated, so many thanks to Antony and
Saber for that!
I recently heard someone say that in terms of the overall information
technology "sphere", geospatial is such a small niche part that it's like a
pimple on IT's bottom. However, we've all heard th
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Alex Borrell wrote:
> I'd like OSGeo to increase its presence in not-developed areas in
> LatinAmerica (where I am :)), Asia and Africa.
Charter members should carefully consider whom to vote - the board
should be representative in terms of global coverage, softwa