Crap - I guess this means I better set up another incubation committee meeting :)
There was a great talk at foss4g about burnout (anyone got a link?). I always try and respect the volunteers I am working with ... Rant: Please remember that YOU are a volunteer you are working with, respect your time appropriately. -- Jody Jody Garnett On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jeff McKenna <[email protected] > wrote: > Jody, your response is perfect. I do get upset too often (or actually, I > take quite a lot, but eventually am set off). I apologize for this, I will > try to be better. I am slowly improving. But I could be better. > > To get myself back on track, I decided a few minutes ago (mentioned on the > Board list) by doing some little things for OSGeo right now. And you'll be > happy to hear that one of them is Incubation-related: give a push with the > pycsw team for the next steps (code review etc), as I am their mentor. > > Thanks again for being the voice of reason Jody. Let's all do as Jody > says, and I am sure these tricky points will work themselves out. > > -jeff > > > > On 2014-09-15 4:57 PM, Jody Garnett wrote: > >> Well I don't like you get upset Jeff, you are correct that "patches" >> speak louder than emails. >> >> If I could put a plug in for the incubation committee - we would really >> love some more volunteers. We have a couple projects waiting to "get in" >> and all we need is a "mentor" to be a friendly voice/email contact. >> >> The stuff we do at OSGeo can be very intimidating (starting a steering >> committee - gasp!) or require sensitivity (trade mark conflict). Having >> a mentor to email or Skype can be of great assistance. >> -- >> Jody Garnett >> >> On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Jeff McKenna >> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> wrote: >> >> Why is there this sudden need to point out things like this? This >> is the part that makes my heart drop. (and the underlying meaning >> of the subject of this email) Instead of pointing out issues, maybe >> those making these noises can spend that time on the marketing >> committee, or tackling on the membership issue. >> >> I personally have no problem with LocationTech, in fact I agree they >> play a very important role for businesses. I do have a problem >> however with pointing out problems with OSGeo and our baby, FOSS4G; >> instead of pointing out problems, I feel those same people could be >> diving into helping OSGeo grow and pick up the ball themselves. >> >> -jeff >> >> >> >> >> >> On 2014-09-15 2:56 PM, Bart van den Eijnden wrote: >> >> Why is this not true? I think you are misinterpreting here Jeff. >> >> Membership in OSGeo is a single person. Yes this person can >> belong to a company or run their own company, but membership is >> still personal. >> >> Bart >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 15 sep. 2014, at 19:45, Jeff McKenna >> <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>__> wrote: >> >> On 2014-09-15 1:22 PM, Daniel Morissette wrote: >> the members in OSGeo are individuals and the members in >> Eclipse/LocationTech are businesses >> >> >> >> Daniel this statement is not true, regarding OSGeo. OSGeo >> members are made up of all walks of life, and many are >> running private businesses all around the world. I have >> visited their organizations/offices myself in my FOSS4G >> travels throughout the years. >> >> However I cannot change how you feel. >> >> This part is unfortunate, these strong statements made >> publicly, which I feel are made to divide our community. >> >> Let me reinforce: our OSGeo community and our FOSS4G events >> (of all sizes) are geared for everyone and anyone, with no >> sole focus on one type of community. And as the President >> of OSGeo, I am happy to represent all of the members, of any >> kind :) >> >> -jeff >> >> >> _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >
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