Attached a message from Paul Ramsey concerning
the foundation meeting.
Helena
(cc grasslists and Paul Ramsey)
I think that there was the time shift problem between Europe and
Northern America - Paul posted the message on Friday while
I saw it only later (and posted it here with delay).
My intention is to participate in the meeting.
Markus
On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 03:54:52PM -0500, Helena Mitasova wrote:
Markus, I don't see you (or anybody else for GRASS) - it is sad to see
GRASS omitted.
Will you be able to go?Helena
On Jan 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>Attached a message from Paul Ramsey concerning
>the foundation meeting.
>
>
>From: Paul Ramsey <pramsey@refractions.net>
>Date: January 13, 2006 12:32:10 PM EST
>To: discuss@lists.mapserverfoundation.org, freegis-list@intevation.de,
>MAPSERVER-USERS@LISTS.UMN.EDU
>Cc: Subject: [MSF-Discuss] "Geospatial Foundation" Meeting
>
>
>Dear Community Members,
>
>In order to help move along the process of starting an "open source
>geospatial foundation" there will be a face-to-face meeting in
>Chicago, Westin O'Hare, on February 4, 2006, hosted by Autodesk. In
>conceiving of this meeting, we have tried (and will continue to try)
>to follow these principles:
>
>- Inclusion. Members from a number of different open source projects
>have been invited (see the list so far below) and Autodesk has offered
>to pay the travel costs of some of these invitees in order to ensure
>they can attend if they cannot afford it otherwise. Anyone else is
>also welcome to attend physically or virtually (see below).
>
>- Transparency. The agenda for the meeting will be public, and will be
>revised based on comments and input prior to the meeting. The minutes
>of the meeting will also be public. Planning materials (backgrounders,
>attendee lists, agenda) for the meeting on will be on a public site.
>The whole meeting will be transcribed into IRC in real time, and IRC
>users will be able to participate via an interlocutor at the meeting.
>
>The following are some general goals for the meeting (subject to
>revision/addition/subtraction), which should provide enough certainty
>that present investments into the starting of the foundation are not
>wasted on concepts that people are not interested in for the long term
>future.
>
>- Agreement in principle on a mission statement or short charter.
>
>- Agreement in principle on a governance model for the foundation.
>Deciding whether the foundation should "look like" Eclipse, or Apache,
>or The Open Group, or some other model entirely.
>
>- Agreement in principle on a founding Board of Directors. A founding
>BoD can start to make concrete decisions on things like a name, logo
>and branding, domains, and so on.
>
>- Agreement in principle on an acceptable short list of foundation
>names, to be subjected to further legal research.
>
>In general, the goal is to establish enough solid agreement on basic
>issues that a founding BoD can proceed confidently in managing the
>details in getting the foundation up and running.
>
>The proposed agenda follows:
>
>a. Opening statements and introductions
>b. Q/A ? ~20 min - from IRC, email
>c. Foundation Goals ? what should they be? What should the name
>be?
>d. Q/A ? ~20 min - from IRC, email
>e. Foundation Operations ? the givens (governance, legal
>protection, IPR, licenses, funding, community management)
>f. Q/A ? ~20 min - from IRC, email
>g. Foundation charter, tentative board membership, and action
>plan established
>h. Q/A ? 20 min - from IRC, email
>i. Breakout groups: Governance, Legal Issues, Community
>Management, Funding
>j. Breakout groups regroup and present their findings
>k. Results will be gathered and enumerated for the creation of a
>draft document rolling up the decisions and next steps.
>
>The minutes of this meeting will be published on the web site within a
>few days after the meeting adjourns. We will then work hard to publish
>the final results of the meeting within two weeks of the meeting.
>
>An attorney who has worked with the creators of Mozilla and other
>foundations to establish non profits for housing an open source
>foundation will be present. Establishing an open source foundation is
>now almost formulaic in Silicon Valley, and we would like to take
>advantage of those formulas.
>
>The participants in the meeting thus far are:
>
>Brian Behlendorf (O'Reilly & CollabNet)
>Chris Holmes (GeoServer/Open Planning Project)
>Claude Philipona (FOSS4GIS Conference/Camptocamp)
>Dave McIlhagga (Mapserver/DM)
>Frank Warmerdam (OGR/GDAL)
>Gary Lang (Tux/Autodesk)
>Gary Sherman (QGIS)
>Gordon Luckett (User/Autodesk)
>Howard Butler (MapServer/UIowa)
>Mark Lucas (OSSIM)
>Paul Ramsey (PostGIS/uDig/Refractions)
>Pericles Nacionales (Mapserver/UMN)
>Robert Bray (Tux/Autodesk)
>Rich Steele (Tux/Autodesk)
>Paul Spencer (Ka-Map/DM)
>Steve Lime (Mapserver)
>Tom Burk (Mapserver/UMN)
>Tyler Mitchell (O?Reilly Author, long-time MapServer Foundation
>advocate)
>
>We therefore have room for more on-site attendees. If you are
>interested in attending to represent one of these communities as a
>user or you want to propose adding a project to this list, please send
>an email to:
>
> chicago <at> mapserverfoundation.org
>
>When we reach 25 on-site attendees, we will be at our budget limit for
>this meeting and have reached a size that we feel comfortable
>managing. Everyone else can participate through the virtual mechanisms
>described above.
>
>Everyone wants to ensure the foundation has a long and successful
>future, and we know that this requires getting lots of input up front,
>so the organization starts out heading in the right direction. We hope
>that many of you can join us in Chicago, and that the rest will join
>us virtually as well to take part in this process.
>
>We will soon start posting Chicago location information (a hotel near
>the airport is the goal) and information for discussion publicly. We
>will use www.mapserverfoundation.org as the hosting place for virtual
>connection information, discussion documents, agenda modifications,
>and other documents associated with the foundation until such time as
>the name of the foundation is chosen and a site dedicated to it has
>been established.
>
>Paul Ramsey
>Gary Lang
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Helena Mitasova
Dept. of Marine, Earth and Atm. Sciences
1125 Jordan Hall, NCSU Box 8208,
Raleigh NC 27695
http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/