We are a foundation to "support collaborative development of open source geospatial software, and promote its widespread use".
Not sure we won quite yet - we have a few projects in incubation that could are love and support :) And plenty more that would love to joint the party. -- Jody Garnett On 31 July 2015 at 10:49, Michael Gerlek <[email protected]> wrote: > I've stayed out of the pre-survey discussions on charter membership and > whatnot, but after taking the survey yesterday, I’m starting to think that > > > OSGeo has accomplished what it set out to do some years ago, and > as currently construed OSGeo will no longer serve a useful purpose. > > > Back when OSGeo was formed, open source GIS was a new area — islands of > people here and there, looking for ways to collaborate on relatively young > projects. Recall that hosting source code repositories was a big issue back > in the day — but now we have GitHub and the problem no longer exists. Open > source, and open source GIS, has reached mainstream acceptance, with lots > of projects and lots of communities. To the extent that OSGeo helped get us > to the broad level of practice we’re at today, we’ve won. > > OSGeo has always been about several different things: code development, of > course, but also advocacy, education, live DVDs, and more. Open source GIS > is now of a size that it is increasingly hard to keep all these interests > aligned and under one big umbrella. The domains of these interests areas > are large enough that they should perhaps now be looking to sustain > themselves as independent projects — not looking to OSGeo for sponsorship > or mentorship. > > Indeed, one of the things from the survey that brought me to this point > was the question about whether or not some outside party “taking over” > OSGeo was a concern or not… and, upon reflection, it turns out that I’m not > the least bit concerned: if OSGeo went away, all the various communities of > various sorts of open source GIS — MapServer users, LocationTech projects, > GeoForAll initiatives — would just keep on doing their own thing. > > Where can OSGeo add value? Overseeing the annual international conference? > Yes, that’s something that needs to have a home. Beyond that? I’m no longer > sure. > > > We won. It may now be time for OSGeo 1.0 to take its bows and exit the > stage, making room for an OSGeo 2.0 with a new charter aimed at the world > for 2016 and beyond. > > -mpg > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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