I second Jachym and Peter.
>Peter Baumann:
>
>HI all,
>
>As there is a request for Charter Members to chime in, here my 2 cents:
>
>The issue on hand is highlighting excellently the need for effective and
>efficient decision procedures based on mandates.
>OSGeo has but embarked on establishing these, currently discussions are driven
>more by gut feeling than by ordered bylaws and procedures. The fact that there
>are projects in incubation for 4.5 years [1] and still not done underlines this.
>
>A grassroots mindset is good for gathering people initially, but to exercise
>impact at large we need efficient, agreed decision structures. With some of the
>last posts I see that we are embarking in this direction, and I very much
>applaude to that.
>
>HI all,
>
>As there is a request for Charter Members to chime in, here my 2 cents:
>
>The issue on hand is highlighting excellently the need for effective and
>efficient decision procedures based on mandates.
>OSGeo has but embarked on establishing these, currently discussions are driven
>more by gut feeling than by ordered bylaws and procedures. The fact that there
>are projects in incubation for 4.5 years [1] and still not done underlines this.
>
>A grassroots mindset is good for gathering people initially, but to exercise
>impact at large we need efficient, agreed decision structures. With some of the
>last posts I see that we are embarking in this direction, and I very much
>applaude to that.
Jachym Cepicky: >>So, now
>> we are here, things are happening, we can finally talk to whole
>> community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big
>> organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future
>> for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good.
>> If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position.
>> community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big
>> organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future
>> for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good.
>> If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position.
on the horizon I see 3 (already worked on) tasks of the OSGeo foundation:(a) service/infrastructure provider for foss4g projects,
(b) open minded community nucleus of foss4g spirit,
(c) business support for foss4gas OSGeo is happily growing :-) and has reached a "critical" size, well reviewed structures are needed to work on all or some of these tasks, alone or in cooperation with other organisations ... let's find OSGeo's position.bestHelmutOSGeo: wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Hellik>Peter Baumann:
>
>HI all,
>
>As there is a request for Charter Members to chime in, here my 2 cents:
>
>The issue on hand is highlighting excellently the need for effective and
>efficient decision procedures based on mandates.
>OSGeo has but embarked on establishing these, currently discussions are driven
>more by gut feeling than by ordered bylaws and procedures. The fact that there
>are projects in incubation for 4.5 years [1] and still not done underlines this.
>
>A grassroots mindset is good for gathering people initially, but to exercise
>impact at large we need efficient, agreed decision structures. With some of the
>last posts I see that we are embarking in this direction, and I very much
>applaude to that.
>
>cheers,
>Peter
>
>[1] http://rasdaman.org/wiki/OSGeo
>
>
>On 09/18/2014 09:59 AM, Ravi Kumar wrote:
>> This ' LocationTech and OSGeo collaboration ', appears to be some thing that
>> the OSGeo Charter should involve and motivate opinion etc. Those at the helm
>> may pl post a summary of the, 'storey so far'.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, September 18, 2014 2:23 AM, Jachym Cepicky
>> <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Just noting,
>>
>> discussion about relationship between LocationTech and OSGeo is here
>> since 2012 (IIRC). That many people did not pain attention to it
>> (actually including myself up to certain time), is not fault of OSGeo
>> .. or LocationTech.
>>
>> It's just actually boring topic. We are community of (mostly)
>> developers and users of FOSS4G (not conference, but software in this
>> case). This sounds like politics .. who would pay attention? So, now
>> we are here, things are happening, we can finally talk to whole
>> community, because of this IMHO *is* important topic - two big
>> organisations are trying to find a way, how to cooperate in the future
>> for better free and open source software for geospatial! This is good.
>> If for nothing else, then for clarifying OSGeo's position.
>>
>> Jachym
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