Collecting some thoughts...

On 12/09/2010 17:00, [email protected] wrote:
OSGeo-women has been created as a chapter, similar to local chapters.
> The final aim is to promote participation of women in OSGeo
groupings, like most others, are entirely artificial

I signed up, despite some misgivings which i outlined here:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Talk:Women_Chapter#Thoughts_about_this_sort_of_thing

In essence, "That the root causes are not about women but about all of us, and not about software but about society..."

Where to, OSGeo?
members and partners in the broad sense can give money...
new revenue stream from events or other new products.
> How much OSGeo should care and work for FOS data, FOS education
> OSGeo should encourage going beyond the baseline,
> but that should not be in its main mission.

I had a ramble at the board list on vaguely this topic:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2010-September/003566.html

In essence, cross-subsidy of time commitment with other organisations who do have a more focused mission about different related subjects (geodata and foss4g in education, or open standards and open government)

love,


jo
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