[Board] Re: Support

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:44 AM, Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>>> Perhaps the place of a charitable Foundation is to help create interest
>>> and to support initiative where it is lacking, wherever in the world that is?
>>
>> +1 +1
>
> It's all in what you think the meaning of the word "support" is.
> OSGeo can't use it's money to create interest from nothing, there has
> to be enough interest there in the first place that the money is
> actually useful.
>
> What concrete actions would manifest OSGeo "support" for folks in Europe?

Paul,

as jo said: mental support. Say-that-it-a-good-idea. Like this.
I am not asking money or such from OSGeo.
Just that OSGeo should have as mission to stimulate interest
and share ideas.

Markus