Ian Turton wrote:
ChrisH and I have spent the day in Chicago discussing the new OSGEO
foundation - (see http://logs.qgis.org/geofoundation/ for the irc logs).
Basically we have raised 23 members (those of us who were here) and
elected a board of 5 (inc Chris H) who will then nominate 20 more
members and then elect 4 more board members from the whole membership.
There is concern that Java is under represented and keen interest in
GeoTools joining. It would be really good if we could discuss this at
the irc this week and that people could read at least the end of the
logs to see whats happening.
There would be no downside I can see and lots of up. I expect Chris
and Jody can add more details and we can all try to answer any questions.
We should do better then that Ian, lets start a wiki page and revise it
to answer peoples questions as we go :-) One nice thing was the honest
concern that we in the Java community do so much, and the concern was we
take part accordingly.
The details of participation are easy at this stage, talk to the
community and sign up. They are going to base their standards according
to which projects decide to join. We are not the only group going back
to the community here (MapServer is going to run things over on their
email list). My impression is we have have around two weeks.
I lurked on IRC and compared notes to our recent meeting ( legal -
check, license - check, marketting - check, version control - check,
website - check, and so on .... ). The one thing on our shopping list
that did no go over well was the idea of accessing the OGC/ISO standards
as a group.
This is still something that we can do ourseleves. I did mention GeoAPI
- response was mostly viewed as being too busy, and OGC controled ...
I will start out with the first question Ian: I am also not sure if we
need to be a legal entity ourselves in order for the foundation to
represent us. We have minuets but no bankaccount as far as I know....
Jody
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