Hi All,
I agree with you i think we need a "local chapter" policy, to
redistribute knowledge and organizational experience through the LC,
helping ourselves to organize hack meetings and local conferences.
I think we also need to focus on an "educational strategy" to promote
FOSS inside university departments.
A lot of people uses proprietary sw for their works not because they
think
the proprietary software is better than the FOSS, but simply because
they learned a proprietary application during their study and continue
using them without considering other sw.
(cracking sw is too easy and in my experience I see teachers even
apply cracks or password cracked apps to their students)
So i hope to see in the next 5 years, OSGeo will improve in this
direction, giving the right weight to an educational strategy.
Regards,
Massimo.
Il giorno 28/set/09, alle ore 18:17, Christopher Schmidt ha scritto:
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 10:40:17PM -0500, Howard Butler wrote:
On Sep 14, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:
Hi everyone, a recent chat I was asked about our vision for OSGeo
over
the next 3 and 5 years. I'd really like to hear thoughts on the
matter
and pool a few of the ideas together for further discussions amongst
committees, projects, chapters and the board.
It's also a good way for the board nominees in the upcoming election
to
get a sense of where other members are thinking these days.
My measurement of success for OSGeo and priorities I hope it shares
in
the next 3-5 years are the following three items:
- Continued expansion of the local chapters. Local chapters make
OSGeo
real in the sense that mailing lists, websites, and an IRC channel
can't.
- The conference continues uninterrupted for the next five years,
and we
start to use it our central fundraising piece.
- Cross-project collaboration, like the journal, osgeo4w, metacrs,
benchmarking, system administration, and geodata continues to be
fostered by us. From my biased developer's perspective, these have
been
OSGeo's biggest accomplishments along with the local chapter
development
and consolidation of the conference.
I was going to write a post in response to this, but after reading
Howard's, I realize I hardly need to: essentially, his opinions and
position
mirror mine 100%.
Best Regards,
--
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer
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