[OSM-talk] OSM Foundation voting

[SteveC]

* @ 23/06/06 01:16:35 PM erjohan at gmail.com wrote:
> On 6/23/06, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> >> One of Steve's old emails said (paraphrasing) "what harm can the 
> >committee do
> >> when the foundation has no assets?".  Conversely, what good are we 
> >expecting
> >> the foundation to do, that makes it important for people to join and 
> >vote?
> >>
> >> We're waiting for the manifesto!
> 
> A manifesto is a good idea.
> 
> >
> >Having watched the progress of http://www.osgeo.org/ over it's
> >foundation I have to ask the question. Why can't OSM cooperate with
> >OSGeo and just become another OS project with the high caliber projects
> >that have already combined there?
> 
> 
> What I understood about the goal from the founding IRC meeting was:
> 1. Make a credible way to contribute money to the project
> 2. A way to pay people/pay for hardware and let people see where the
> money is going.
> 3. Have a structure that can take responsibilty for the project, not
> relaying on Steve.
> 
> Perhaps OSGeo can do this for us, but not I'm not certain.

4. We don't really use many of the OSGeo tools/standards
5. They seem to be stuck in Committee Land


Etienne is away till next week and imi has internet problems so I can't
give a time right now but expect an IRC meeting to thrash things out
next week.

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/