Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [xbbn] How Do We Reboot a Spirit of Cooperation & Collaboration? A Little Help, Please!

2025-02-10 Thread Miles Fidelman via Discuss
Hi Andras, I've been thinking a lot about USENET - though I've been thinking about using IPFS as a backbone.  Replication, write-only communications, eventually consistent. The real issue, though isn't platform, as process - I think we need something like the RFC process, and a structured co

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [xbbn] How Do We Reboot a Spirit of Cooperation & Collaboration? A Little Help, Please!

2025-02-10 Thread Miles Fidelman via Discuss
Well, that's the problem - folks are organizing around political matters, to rally, to protest - but not to act. Seems to me we need something more like the green committees that cropped up after Earth Day - and proceeded to start cleaning up rivers, launch recycling problems.  Perhaps a coali

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo in GSoC 2025] Call for Project Ideas - GSoC 2025 | Deadline - Feb 10, 2025

2025-02-10 Thread Ashish Kumar via Discuss
Dear All, This is a gentle reminder to submit the project ideas for OSGeo's participation in Google Summer of Code 2025. So far, we have received the ideas submission from 2 projects: - GRASS: https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_GSoC_Ideas_2025 - pgRouting: https://github.com/pgRouti

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] How Do We Reboot a Spirit of Cooperation & Collaboration? A Little Help, Please!

2025-02-10 Thread SERGIO ACOSTAYLARA via Discuss
Hello. Yes, these are difficult times for communication (when paradoxically we are hyper connected...). At OSGeo we try to keep the flame of collaboration and the defense of the commons alive. But it is not easy. It is a continuous struggle, and today it is even more difficult because those who