Dear OSGeo Directors, dear OSGeo members,
I wish to congratulate you with the newly refreshed board, welcoming new Directors and thankfully recognise past Director contribution.
I just attended FOSS4G-ASIA, exactly 20 years after the FOSS4G was created.
Things has changed since then... innovative (at that time) Open approach become the de-facto standard in software development and geospatial technologies became easy to use and widely adopted in all the disciplines.
In this context, I would like to ask our Board of Directors as elected community leaders to shape their vision for OSGeo in the next 5 years.
Apart from guaranteeing the daily business to allow the foundation to operate:
- What are the goals and objectives of OSGeo which make it relevant at global scale?
- Which challenges are we facing or expecting as a community and what are the actions to be taken?
- Which contribution can we, as a community, bring to the society to support global challenges?
- What is the work plan and instruments we may adopt?
Sorry for this long mail, but I feel that our leaders should guide us through a retrospective (what we did) and a perspective (what shall we do) to make our community flourish.
MAY THE FOSS BE WITH YOU ! ❤️
Maxi
