Re-interating what I said on the OSGeo Live list with Jody:
Firstly, it is great to see OSGeo-Live being engaged at the OSGeo board
level and an interest being taken in helping set our direction.
However, one thing that makes me nervous is any gradual increase in
baseline tasks delegated to the OSGeo-Live core team, especially when we
have just gone through a de-scoping exercise within OSGeo-Live to bring
our level of effort back to our volunteer capacity.
If the OSGeo board is making decisions that effect projects such as
OSGeo-Live:
1. The effected projects should be involved in the decision
2. The decision should consider how the impact of the decision will be
resourced.
Warm regards, Cameron
On 20/6/17 4:02 am, Jody Garnett wrote:
I had a review of the upcoming live.osgeo.org <http://live.osgeo.org>
release, and noticed a couple things to update.
1) The live.osgeo.porg sponsorship list
<https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html> included both project
sponsors -- and OSGeo sponsors. The result was quite out of date. As
the board member keeping tabs on sponsors this was my responsibility
.. but I did not know live.osgeo.org <http://live.osgeo.org> was
keeping a list :)
2) More importantly the sponsors page has a section describing osgeo
foundation <https://live.osgeo.org/en/sponsors.html> which had not
been updated with our new mission / vision. Once again we updated
these statements as a board, but did not chase it down into
live.osgeo.org <http://live.osgeo.org>.
3) As incubation chair I asked if OSGeo live could update the branding
for OSGeo Projects and OSGeo Community Projects. This setup is in
keeping with the board decision to open the door to "innovation" last
year by providing an easier way for just-open-source projects to be
supported by the foundation).
4) I asked if live.osgeo.org <http://live.osgeo.org> could include the
new logo / color / font branding (it may be too late, but it does not
hurt to ask).
5) I also asked as a LocationTech member if additional cloud based
projects could be listed on osgeo live. They are an increasingly
important part of our open source ecosystem, but not listed on
live.osgeo.org <http://live.osgeo.org>.
I have joined the project mailing list to provide the above feedback
more directly, however I want to emphasis that it is not enough for us
to make decisions as a board - we need to reach out and communicate
those decisions.
With respect to the board decisions on mission/vision/community
projects are there any other areas we need to update?
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