[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: [Live-demo] OSGeo-Live lightening presentation now updated to 5.0

2011-09-21 Thread maning sambale
Thanks! I will use it for our first osgeo-ph meetup. On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: > I've updated the OSGeo-Live lightening presentation up to version 5.0. This > is a 30 to 40 minute presentation about all the applications on OSGeo-Live. > It also happens to be a very u

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-21 Thread Eli Adam
I thank the Board and all others for discussing this and encourage others to join in. It sounds like we will all have plenty of opportunity to contribute to the OSGeo vision and tasks. Arnulf asked for clarification on something that I wrote, >> From paying attention to Board traffic, it wa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-21 Thread Mark Lucas
Michael's response resonates with me the most so I'll start there (included below). I was against this decision and was unsuccessful at convincing others on the board to come around to my point of view. As the votes came around the table it was obvious the decision had been made - I basically

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-21 Thread Mark Lucas
Michael's response resonates with me the most so I'll start there (included below). I was against this decision and was unsuccessful at convincing others on the board to come around to my point of view. As the votes came around the table it was obvious the decision had been made - I basically

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-21 Thread Daniel Morissette
On 11-09-21 09:29 AM, Mr. Puneet Kishor wrote: Agree about the first and the second above, but disagree about the third (in a minor way). Yes, fundraising is something that requires a dedicated person or persona, which, unfortunately and ironically requires funds. Although, there are models f

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-21 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
Puneet wrote: > However, > please don't lump outreach there. Outreach is what we all do on a daily basis Good point, yes. I was trying for a short email, and maybe I made it too short. There are many different kinds of outreach, and many of us who are active in OSGeo do "outreach" as part of ou

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-21 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
Karsten, pleas accept my apologies if my reply was out of bounds. I appreciate you voicing your concerns and please continue to do just that. We need to communicate on this to get forward. If we had a few million funding sure it would be cool to have staff in every major country of the world. Righ

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-21 Thread Mr. Puneet Kishor
On Sep 21, 2011, at 2:59 AM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote: > I wrote recently that there three kinds of functions needed here: > administrative (bookkeeping, answering mail, etc), tactical (project > management, sys admin), and strategic (fundraising, outreach). The first > can be done by a mixture o

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-21 Thread Daniel Morissette
Thank you Frank, Arnulf and Michael for your answers to the questions so far. What you wrote matches my thinking as well so you save me from having to write another long answer. I might just add that as the new treasurer, my plan is to bring the finance committee back to life, try to get a bet

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo-Live lightening presentation now updated to 5.0

2011-09-21 Thread Cameron Shorter
I've updated the OSGeo-Live lightening presentation up to version 5.0. This is a 30 to 40 minute presentation about all the applications on OSGeo-Live. It also happens to be a very useful source of material for anyone heading back from foss4g who will be giving a presentation to co-workers abou

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-21 Thread Michael P. Gerlek
Arnulf and Frank have already spoken up, and I think they've captured the sentiment of Sunday's board decision well. To emphasize three points, if I may: * Our foundation has been financially backed by a small set of donors and the FOSS4G conference. We have lost ground on former source, and the

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Report from the OSGeo Board meeting

2011-09-21 Thread Seven (aka Arnulf)
On 09/20/2011 11:11 PM, karsten vennemann wrote: > Yes indeed I can only echo what Gary wrote in his email. Then please read Frank's and my answer and come back here to say whether this addressed your concerns or at least some of them. > I might get ahead of myself with too many assumptions here