Comments inline: > Thank you Ben, this is absolutely correct: we have an amazing vibrant > community, and we need a front-end website that fosters and promotes OSGeo > projects (especially those in OSGeo incubation as well as OSGeo Community > projects) and OSGeo initiatives such as the Summer of Code. Period. Full > stop. This is what our community is good at, and why we are so desired > today. From experience I can tell you that this struggle, that is being > put forth here, will just separate our community (you can see it is > already) and make the community weaker. >
I am not sure I see this as a struggle Jeff. Outreach will not weaken our community, it is literally what our community is for - to advocate for open source. Our vision is: *Empower everyone with open source geospatial* If our community focuses only ourselves we will not be meeting our objective. Let us help our OSGeo community grow. Don't worry about competing > organizations (trust me they are fine, they have big money for marketing > and teams of people working on that), just focus on OSGeo and our wonderful > community. > I don't think anyone was worried about competing organizations having a hard time :) We are worried about individuals that have only ever had a chance to hear from proprietary software. We want these individuals to have a chance to hear from us about a better approach to geospatial technology - specifically to hear about our projects and the benefits of not only using open source but being part of an open source community. I am setting up an OSGeo "Website Management Team" now, to help bring the > focus on the OSGeo community, manage the website (and WordPress theme), > security, backups, content etc, and will propose this to OSGeo's Systems > committee and OSGeo Board; for the longterm maintenance of the website. I > imagine during this maintenance process we will be removing these > unnecessary promotions, and focus on the OSGeo community (us). We'll leave > promotion of other things for those with the big money ha, as they have the > big funding for their products, as you mentioned. We will focus on the > OSGeo community. > Jeff we kind of got stuck on this one, the SAC motion to host the beta website is waiting on your proposal. I assume you got busy with the CRO responsibilities, do you know when you will be available with a proposal for SAC to consider? I would kindly ask you to go over the though behind the website content - I do not know specifically what you are referring to as unnecessary. If you are talking about pivoting the website to focus on "us" rather than promotion and outreach then I am really sad and feel like you have missed the point of the exercise.
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