RE: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-10 Thread Suchith Anand
...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Markus Neteler [nete...@osgeo.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 8:56 AM To: OSGeo Discussions Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Alex Borrell wrote: > I'd like OSGeo to increase its pr

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-09 Thread Charlie Schweik
On 8/5/2011 5:15 PM, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: With a very encouraging list of nominees for the open board positions, it might help (at least me!) if some could share their thoughts about OSGeo and its future direction. Sorry for my delay in responding, Tyler – I was traveling. Like ot

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-09 Thread Peter Batty
I would like to thank Tyler Mitchell for nominating me, and I am honored to be standing with a great group of candidates, all of whom have a longer history of involvement with OSGeo than I do, I think. I have put in a lot of hours as FOSS4G chair over the past year though, so am trying to catch up

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-09 Thread Ravi Kumar
irectors of OSGeo.. please add more Global perspective. Ravi Kumar From: Tyler Mitchell To: OSGeo Discussions Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 3:00 AM Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo On 2011-08-09, at 12:56 AM, Markus

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-09 Thread Tyler Mitchell
On 2011-08-09, at 12:56 AM, Markus Neteler wrote: > Charter members should carefully consider whom to vote - the board > should be We probably each have our own list of the most important things to consider, so I share mine as well. :) My votes will be less influenced by global coverage or

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-09 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Alex Borrell wrote: > I'd like OSGeo to increase its presence in not-developed areas in > LatinAmerica (where I am :)), Asia and Africa. Charter members should carefully consider whom to vote - the board should be representative in terms of global coverage, softwa

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-08 Thread Alex Borrell
I'd like OSGeo to increase its presence in not-developed areas in LatinAmerica (where I am :)), Asia and Africa. Maybe we cannot achieve much in the economical, but there is a potential to grow the number of users. Support for small regional OSGeo conferences as a step to the main one (FOSS4G). Tra

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-06 Thread Tyler Mitchell
> On 2011/08/06 10:28, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: >> Thanks Eduardo. Indeed many of these are not even realised in North >> America, > There are many other things not "realized" in North America, > so the Tyler's "not even" does not make much sense to me. I agree Venka, that's was actually m

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-06 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
On 2011/08/06 10:28, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: Thanks Eduardo. Indeed many of these are not even realised in North America, There are many other things not "realized" in North America, so the Tyler's "not even" does not make much sense to me. Venka so they are very thought provoking for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-05 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
Thanks Eduardo. Indeed many of these are not even realised in North America, so they are very thought provoking for me. Tyler - Original message - > hi Tyler, > > Despite some thoughts below might not be new in north hemisphere, > there goes my Latin American user vision: > > #OSGeo i

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-05 Thread Cameron Shorter
On 06/08/11 07:15, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote: With a very encouraging list of nominees for the open board positions, it might help (at least me!) if some could share their thoughts about OSGeo and its future direction. As a potential director: * What important areas do you see OSGeo needi

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-05 Thread Eduardo Kanegae
hi Tyler, Despite some thoughts below might not be new in north hemisphere, there goes my Latin American user vision: #OSGeo is already inside the minds of power GIS users and GIS developers, we already know like things work and how/what to be done to work. Now maybe is the time to make OSGeo mor

[OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate's Thoughts on OSGeo

2011-08-05 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
With a very encouraging list of nominees for the open board positions, it might help (at least me!) if some could share their thoughts about OSGeo and its future direction. As a potential director: * What important areas do you see OSGeo needing to fix or strive for in order to grow? * What cha