[Osmf-talk] Policy, Strategy, Priorities etc - OSGeo example

[Mikel Maron]

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 (http://www.osgeo.org/incubator/process/process.html) 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).
 
* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron


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> From: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
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>Hi,
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>   we often have discussions about "strategy", what OSMF should aim for, and so on.
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>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:
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>http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/discuss/2013-March/011410.html
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>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.
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>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.
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>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) ;)
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>Bye
>Frederik
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