Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo and Open Data?

2016-10-20 Thread Adam Steer
Hi, speaking as: - a new player in the OSgeo world - a person occupying a desk in an agency tasked with publishing data (fulfilling Gert-Jan’s point 3) …and repeating other voices here - I see some form of data advocacy as really useful in OSgeo world, in particular in uptake of data sources fo

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...

2016-10-20 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Maxi, Cameron and all, Perhaps the term "Education Committee" could be replaced with Geo4All as it represents the educational outreach project of OSGeo. Mapbuilder which is listed as an Foundation project has retired [1] and and can be removed or shown "Past Project". Regarding "Public Geodata

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Not graduated OSGeo project...

2016-10-20 Thread Cameron Shorter
Hi Maxi, I'm not sure our software incubation checklist is the correct criteria to apply to "OSGeo Outreach Projects". -- The education committee is a huge success story of OSGeo, attracting educators from around the world who are promoting Open Source to future generations. OSGeo should be

[OSGeo-Discuss] Not graduated OSGeo project...

2016-10-20 Thread Massimiliano Cannata
dear Board, in the OSGeo landing page (www.osgeo.org) in the "OSGeo projects" frame are listed the so called "Outreach Projects". To my understanding and knowledge these listed projects (Public Geospatial Data, Education and Curriculum, OSGeo Live) have not been nor incubated nor graduated. I'm t