Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-17 Thread RAVI KUMAR
Hi Kishor, nice to know you are going for the last Dasehris of this summer. Please do visit OSGeo India at Hyderabad and Pune. Cheers Ravi Kumar Venkatesh Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: P Kishor wrote: ... > > Now I go back to my remaining mangoes of the season here in the still > hot Luckn

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-17 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
P Kishor wrote: ... Now I go back to my remaining mangoes of the season here in the still hot Lucknow, India. Just back form India, myself. Hope you have time to look up the OSGeo folks in India (Hyderabad, Pune). Venka ___ Discuss mailing list Disc

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-17 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Hi Frank Frank Warmerdam wrote: I've yet to return to some of the interesting email since I went away on the challenges in the developing world (though many of them - at a glance - seems similar to the challenges we face in the developed world). Think are reffering to the e-mail from our

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-16 Thread Tim Bowden
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 20:54 -0700, Dave Patton wrote: > P Kishor wrote: > > > I believe pegging Board-membership to geography is a good thing > > > I also believe that while one can contribute as much while being an > > ordinary member as opposed to a charter or a Board member (I became a > > cha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-16 Thread P Kishor
On 8/17/07, Dave Patton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > P Kishor wrote: > > > I believe pegging Board-membership to geography is a good thing > > > I also believe that while one can contribute as much while being an > > ordinary member as opposed to a charter or a Board member (I became a > > charter

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-16 Thread Dave Patton
P Kishor wrote: I believe pegging Board-membership to geography is a good thing I also believe that while one can contribute as much while being an ordinary member as opposed to a charter or a Board member (I became a charter member only a couple of months ago), Board membership could be an i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-16 Thread P Kishor
Thanks everyone for weighing in (even though I am responding only to Frank's email here). Any discussion is better than no discussion. That said, I actually respectfully disagree with most all of you. I believe pegging Board-membership to geography is a good thing, and it does not naturally extrap

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-16 Thread Frank Warmerdam
P Kishor wrote: Hi all, I would love hear from others about what they think of geography-based Board seats. Please weigh in. Puneet, I'm coming to this late. It is my opinion that "hard coding" specific numbers of board seats from specific geographic locales is not a great idea for some of t

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-13 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 13-Aug-07, at 2:55 PM, Dave McIlhagga wrote: One of the benefits of the open source model is it breaks down the artificial geographic barriers among it's participants. Open Source is about quality of contributions from wherever they may come around the world. On a parallel idea... open

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-13 Thread Landon Blake
er interfaces, and support for global or "foreign" unit and coordinate systems. The Sunburned Surveyor -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave McIlhagga Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; OSGeo Discus

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-13 Thread Dave McIlhagga
One of the benefits of the open source model is it breaks down the artificial geographic barriers among it's participants. Open Source is about quality of contributions from wherever they may come around the world. As much as we all would like to see maximum geographic representation in O

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-13 Thread Steve Lime
The original post used geography as an initial example but also mentioned there are most certainly other balances that could make more sense - Steve >>> On 8/13/2007 at 1:26 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11-Aug-07, at 7:51 AM, P Kish

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-13 Thread Paul Ramsey
I think it's a terrible idea, unless we really consider geography to be the true organizing principle behind OSGeo. Why not project-based board seats? Or language? Ethnicity? How about all three! We can have a matrix board. First, is there a problem: is our board representation bad rela

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-13 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
On 11-Aug-07, at 7:51 AM, P Kishor wrote: On 8/10/07, Steve Lime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all: Perhaps this has been discussed before, but... Given the apparent desire to maintain geographic diversity amongst OSgeo leadership perhaps in the future we might consider regionally based boa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-13 Thread P Kishor
Hi all, I would love hear from others about what they think of geography-based Board seats. Please weigh in. PS: If anyone is CDG tomorrow morning at 8.20a local time, page me, but make sure to wear your OSGeo swag so I can recognize you... I'll be there for two hours waiting for my flight to DEL

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-11 Thread P Kishor
On 8/10/07, Steve Lime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all: Perhaps this has been discussed before, but... Given the apparent > desire to maintain geographic diversity amongst OSgeo leadership perhaps in > the future we might consider regionally based board seats. This is absolutely the most won

[OSGeo-Discuss] Board Geographic Diversity

2007-08-10 Thread Steve Lime
Hi all: Perhaps this has been discussed before, but... Given the apparent desire to maintain geographic diversity amongst OSgeo leadership perhaps in the future we might consider regionally based board seats. That is, you have representatives from: North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, South/Cen