<div dir="ltr">Hi Maria,<div>These are good questions, and a positive outcome of this email thread would be to refine our OSGeo Priorities [1] to provide guidelines to answer these types of questions.</div><div><br></div><div>
OSGeo's strength is our community of volunteers and our collective quality of projects.</div><div>As we are volunteers with very little budget, we usually are not in a position to support projects financially, and we are not in a position to commit our volunteers to specific tasks of helping a project.</div>
<div><br></div><div>What we can do is note:</div><div><i>Project XXX aligns with OSGeo principles (as per board priorities), and makes use of / extends OSGeo projects. The OSGeo Board notes the potential value of this project and recommend that this project should be encouraged.</i></div>
<div><i>Projects which have followed similar principles have attracted OSGeo volunteers and attracted co-sponsorship, and the OSGeo Board would like to encourage uptake of this project.</i></div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Board_Priorities">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Board_Priorities</a></div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p>as I happen sometimes to be invoved in applications for some european or national projects, I'm wondering if OSGeo wants to be involved in such appplications (and consequent projects) and in which way (partnership, advisory board membership, supporting
with an endorsement, nothing at all). Horizon2020 has started and in my opinion this could be an occasion at least of visibility also for OSGeo. I'm not speaking about possible involvement of single members of OSGeo, that's another story.<br>
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<p>I realize that I'm asking that on a privileged point of view (Politecnico is one of the best technical university in Europe) and therefore there could be a reciprocal interest for both the parts and that, on the opposite, you have to be cautios because
obviosly you have to deal with a great variety of possible situations.</p>
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<p>Thanks for considering this question, if you believe it fits the interests of OSGeo also.</p>
<p>Best.<br>
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<p>Maria Brovelli</p>
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