<html><head></head><body>Hi Maëlle,<br><br>You obviously have my support, but I think you could facilitate decision making on this by explaining what such a partnership would imply for OSGeo.be, i.e. what would we commit to.<br><br>Have a nice day,<br>Moritz<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Am 11. Mai 2021 02:02:00 MESZ schrieb Maelle Vercauteren <mavercau@ulb.ac.be>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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</div>Dear all,<br><br>Dear board members,<br><br>It's been a long time since we had any contact... I am therefore delighted that we will soon have this GA to get back together.<br><br>In this context, I was wondering if OSGeo-be would be interested in collaborating with us (ULB / DGES / IGEAT / ANAGEO) as part of our long (6 months) training in free GIS.<br>Given the short time to have your official agreement (ideally today May 11th), I have added the members of the board and the promoter of our training in cc.<br><br>Indeed, we will soon send our application to the call from ARES-CCD to renew this training. It has existed since 2008 and is intended for an audience of French-speaking professionals from developing countries involved in development cooperation (mainly members of the administration, university and local NGOs in sub-Saharan Africa). Participating as a non academic partner would imply to organize together one or a few activities (debate, seminar, geo-dev, map galleries, ... and ideally a dedicated session in the FOSS4G-be) for our trainees on a development theme. The details do not have to be decided now. There are certainly many possible options.<br><br>In this context, <b>we would like to know if you would agree that OSGeo.be is mentioned as a non-academic partner for our new certifying training in free GIS that would be organized at the ULB from 2022 to 2026 (if our funding is renewed) ?</b><br><br>If so, it would simply be necessary to mention a member of the association (eg the president ;-)) as a non-academic partner.<br>Unfortunately, the call ends very soon so we would need a decision before the GA.<br>It would be awesome if we could get feedback from some of the board members before Wednesday 12th.<br><br>If you do not have time to respond quickly but are open to a more formal collaboration, we could add a short sentence explaining that discussions on this topic are ongoing ;-)<br><br>Thanks a lot and sorry for the late request, <br></div><div>Maë//e</div></div><br><br clear="all"></div></blockquote></div></body></html>