Jody, On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 7:48 AM, Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...] > > Initiatives: > > - Website/rebranding - temporary initiative > - OSGeo-Live > > > - OSGeo European > > *[...]* > > Committees: > > - United Nations Committee > - GeoForAll > - Conference Committee > - OpenGeoScience Committee > - Marketing Committee > - Incubation Committee > - GSoC - is this a committee or initiative? > > GSoC is surely no committee: the "members" are not stable, volunteer mentors change from one year to another, there is no "less active" members as sometimes happens in committees; there is no much voting, admins are responsible for administrative stuff, mentors are responsible for their own mentoring activity; etc. I think the definition of initiative suits better. I'm not sure about the actual definition in use in OSGeo, but if OSGeo-Live is an initiative, I see similarities with GSoC: cross-project initiative, aiming at outreach and growing projects. Thank you -- Margherita Di Leo
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