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[Stephan Holl]

Hello Silke, freegis-team,

Silke Reimer <moin at silke-reimer.de>, [20070620 - 22:18:54]

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Am Freitag, 15. Juni 2007 08:08 schrieb Jan-Oliver Wagner:
> > Hello Silke and others,
> >
> > sorry for being quite on this list. My free time is really
> > short these days.
> 
> Don't worry. This is OK since probably all of us already had the same
> problem in the past.
> 
> >
> > Am Donnerstag 14 Juni 2007 18:18 schrieb Bernhard Reiter:
> > > On Thursday 31 May 2007 18:24, Silke Reimer wrote:
> > > > > > 1) Do you think that this reorganization is helpful?
> > >
> > > there need to be a change to make this more approachable for sure,
> > > so I agree that there is a need to do something.
> > > Redoing the categories is an idea that can work,
> > > it probably depends on the details.
> > >
> > > We should get Jan to comment as he has done quite a bit
> > > of the categorisation work.
> >
> > A am all for a reorganization of the categories. And I welcome
> > Silke's proposal very much.
> >
> > I like the 'Standards' idea.
> 
> :-)
> 
> >
> > The final new list and structure of categories probably
> > can best be decidied during actually doing the re-categorisation.
> >
> > How about a meeting (IRL + IRC) where we jointly discuss the
> > categories and immediatly implement them? Perhaps a date in early
> > July is already doable? Who would be interested in spending a day
> > (or a night, depending on our start time and you time zone :-) for
> > this?
> 
> I think this is a good idea. I would like to take part. Probably I
> wouldn't like to spend a whole day but at least around 2 hours which
> should help to get a common understanding of how to do the
> re-categorisation. Afterwards each of us can continue alone.
> 
> Perhaps we should wait another week or so to get a list of all
> interested people and then decide for a good date to meet.

Shurely I like to offer some time to get that done. I am happy to
assist and take part of the upcoming meeting.

> > As preparation I could implement the "minor change" checkbox so
> > supress freegis-updates mails. The changelog is in little conflict,
> > so maybe the updates will still appear on the main page. I'll have
> > to look into this.
> 
> Fine.
> 
> > > Best for FreeGIS.org would be to find funding and seriously
> > > develop a plan to take it to the next level with 1/3 person
> > > maintaining it or so. :)
> >
> > How about transferring  FreeGIS to the GAV step by step?
> > The vast majority of entries/updates have been done by GAV members
> > anyway.
> > Initially I could think about a "Powered by GAV" logo on the site
> > to give a hint on this fact.
> > The donations could also go to the GAV, though it is not much so
> > far. GAV would need a paypal account of course.
> 
> In my opinion both ideas are very helpful. Perhaps it will be
> possible that the GAV finds enough sponsors to finance a 1/3 person
> at least for the certain time.

I am in favour of this. We need to discuss that on GAV-side though.

Best
	Stephan

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