[Openstreetmap] Organizing the OSM community and funding a bit better (Was: no dots)

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Lars Aronsson]
> I would suggest you as chief technologist and Tom Carden as
> chairman.  Petter could be treasurer and I could volunteer as
> secretary, if there are no other suggestions.

I am not unwilling to contribute making such thing happen, but I
believe it is a better route to piggy-back on an existing organization.

I'm already the leader of Norwegian Unix Users Group, a active Debian
developer, technical coordinator of the Skolelinux project a board
member of the skolelinux foundation (SLX Debian LAbs), trying to get a
privacy assosiation up and running here in Norway, involved in the
patent discussion and working on free map projects.  I do not really
expect to have much time to work on setting up or running a new
organization.  Especially when I suspect it isn't really needed.

Did anyone consider the new Open Source Geospatial Foundation as a
organization to piggy-back on?  It seem to be right up our ally. :)

See for example
<URL:http://industry.slashgeo.org/industry/06/02/05/1319219.shtml?tid=35>
and <URL:http://industry.slashgeo.org/industry/06/02/06/213205.shtml>
for info on this foundation.