<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>Interesting. Worth noting, OSGeo is a community of communities, where each individual open source project has fairly independent management, but that must meet a number of standards (</span><a href="http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/process.html" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/process.html</a>) <span style="font-size: 12pt;">in order to use the brand and shared resources of OSGeo. Some of the member projects are quite well supported, with paid developers (OpenLayers, PostGIS, etc).</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size:
12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Frederik Ramm <frederik@remote.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" <osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, March 4, 2013 3:59 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Osmf-talk] Policy, Strategy, Priorities etc - OSGeo example<br> </font> </div> <br>
Hi,<br><br> we often have discussions about "strategy", what OSMF should aim for, and so on.<br><br>OSGeo, which caters for Open Source geospatial software, runs the FOSS4G conference, and is in some ways similar to OSMF, has published an interesting document about their board priorities. I like the document; it is concise and clear, and certainly worth reading:<br><br>http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-March/011410.html<br><br>The document expands on their plan to remain a "low capital, volunteer focused organisation"; in our discussions we haven't used the terms "low capital" or "high capital" but I think their explanation makes perfect sense. I find it refreshing for them to affirm that they think the "low capital" path is better for them.<br><br>What they write about "supporting initiatives which support themselves", or about conferences and related events, describes the role in which I see OSMF as well.<br><br>Most of all, I envy
them for being able to produce a document of such high standard in a four hour board meeting (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2013-02-26) ;)<br><br>Bye<br>Frederik<br><br><br>-- Frederik Ramm ## eMail <a ymailto="mailto:frederik@remote.org" href="mailto:frederik@remote.org">frederik@remote.org</a> ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>osmf-talk mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org">osmf-talk@openstreetmap.org</a><br>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/osmf-talk<br><br><br> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> </div></body></html>