Dirk I do not have clear position on the European local chapter formation,
so I have some questions that hopefully will help me to better understand.
- Why on specific mailing list there has not been any discussion?
- Which type of governance you want to give? What is the by law of this new
association?
- Will you create European local chapter charter members? How do they pose
regarding those of OSGeo ?
- What is the role of local national chapters ? Do you have a list of
contacted existing european chapters and their official answer or position?
Existing European chapters will be under the European one or by side as
parallel independent entities?
- what is the relationship with FOSS4G europe and the conference committee,
if any? What kind of FOSS4G this possible europen local chapter is
pursuing? High cost and 5 star ( US style ) or low costs and 3 star ( Como
style) ?
These are some of the questions i wuould need to be answered to take a
position on this proposal....
If i missed something and answers to theese questions were already
answered, please be so patiant to point me to these answers.
Best
Maxi
Il 02/Ago/2016 15:23, "Dirk Frigne" <dirk.frigne@geosparc.com> ha scritto:
Dear board members,
In preparation for the board meeting next Thursday I added a new agenda
point and copied tree points of the previous meeting agenda to the list.The new point is a status about the role OSGeo could play as
participating organisation for GEO [1]. This is a follow up from the
meeting 2016-04-14 where we discussed the potential partnership between
GEO and OSGeo.about GEO in short: Established in 2005, GEO is a voluntary partnership
of governments and organizations that envisions “a future wherein
decisions and actions for the benefit of humankind are informed by
coordinated, comprehensive and sustained Earth observations and
information.”I had a conf call July 13 with Barbara Ryan and Paulo De Salvo about a
potential partnership.The main activity is brokering in Geo-Data, and they need a lot of Geo
software. I proposed to become a partnering organisation. The role for
OSGeo should be the advocacy within the GEO organisation to promote
OSGeo software.A partnership has no cost involved. They ask if we can attend and be
represented on the yearly conference [2] (this year November 9-10 in St
Petersburg), we should be able to ask some of our members who is already
attending the conference, if possible. ESA is a PO an OGC also. If we
could people in these organisations who could represent both ...
But I think it is important we (OSGeo) are represented in this
organisation.If we agree with such a partnership I can try to find a solution for the
participation of the general meeting and GEO could go on with their part
of the acceptance protocol.For the other agenda points:
- F2F meeting date at FOSS4G Bonn
I send out a doodle, please fill in so we can make a decision on the
board meeting.- Official expression of interest forming a European Chapter
I replied on all questions or remarks that where raised. So we should be
able to vote for the recognition of the new LOC.- OSGeo AGM at Bonn
Already covered in mails earlier today. I think this point is ready to
be executed in Bonn, as Jody stated.greetings,
Dirk[1] http://www.earthobservations.org/index.php
[2] http://www.earthobservations.org/meetings.php--
Yours sincerely,ir. Dirk Frigne
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