Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] scale of FOSS projects

2008-05-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
[...] There is this cultural pressure on standards to be marketing tools. Because of the government and military context for GIS, this pressure is particularly intense for us. It starts to loop back on itself somewhat like this, http://frot.org/on_standards/statements.html Jo, Thanks for

RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Options for a Java Collaboration Mailing List

2008-05-17 Thread Landon Blake
Arnulf, I already submitted a request as requested by Tyler Mitchell. (That was actually a few days ago.) We can always use a Google Group (or something similar) but I thought it was a topic of discussion suitable for the OSGeo, as did others. About how long will it take SAC to make a decision?