<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>I agree with Maxi. I see no reason not to support this letter. And I agree with Bart, we would support any group advancing open source geospatial, even if they were competing.</div><div><br></div><div>Mike</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">----</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Michael Smith</font></font></div><div><div>OSGeo Foundation Treasurer</div><div><a href="mailto:treasurer@osgeo.org">treasurer@osgeo.org</a></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Jachym Cepicky <<a href="mailto:jachym.cepicky@gmail.com">jachym.cepicky@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday, April 13, 2015 at 5:08 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Massimiliano Cannata <<a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a>>, Bart van den Eijnden <<a href="mailto:bartvde@osgis.nl">bartvde@osgis.nl</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> OSGeo Board <<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Board] request for letter of support for Jan Hartmann (UvA)<br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">Guys, I believe Jeff will have some input to this topic,<br><br>but in the past, there were different points of views of European board members and america-based board members.<div><br></div><div>And I would like to read the Jeff's and Michael's opinion to this, because I feel, they have more fine sense for those kinds of supporting letters then we in Europe have</div><div><br></div><div>J</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">po 13. 4. 2015 v 10:13 odesílatel Massimiliano Cannata <<a href="mailto:massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch">massimiliano.cannata@supsi.ch</a>> napsal:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">From my point of view there is no issue.<div><br>Whoever asks for a support letter which could help in gain funds to develop, promote, advance FOSS4G should be supported by OSGeo.<div>No exclusion, even if two people are bidding in "competition", they could always ask for a letter each and I don't see any conflict.</div><div><br></div><div>I strongly believe that We, as the foundation, should always support fund raising as one of our primary objective and only verify that the proposal is in line with our CoC and mission</div><div><br></div><div>Maxi</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">Il giorno lun 13 apr 2015 alle ore 08:31 Bart van den Eijnden <<a href="mailto:bartvde@osgis.nl" target="_blank">bartvde@osgis.nl</a>> ha scritto:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Jachym,<div><br></div><div>in this case Jan’s “competition” is only research institutes from other (non-geo) disciplines, so personally I don’t see the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>Do you still see an issue given the above?</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bart</div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 13 Apr 2015, at 07:10, Jachym Cepicky <<a href="mailto:jachym.cepicky@gmail.com" target="_blank">jachym.cepicky@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><p dir="ltr">Hi,</p><p dir="ltr">Sorry about remaining still. Maybe you already addressed this. But AFAIK the policy is, not to explicitly support anybody's grants/project proposals, because of once you would have to support one project over another, which could cause us a lot of troubles..</p><p dir="ltr">?</p><p dir="ltr">J</p><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 8, 2015, 09:59 Bart van den Eijnden <<a href="mailto:bartvde@osgis.nl" target="_blank">bartvde@osgis.nl</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi board,<div><br></div><div>I’ve been contacted by Jan Hartmann from the University of Amsterdam to see if OSGeo can write a letter of support for a large non-profit proposal he is putting together, details are here:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Uva_letter_of_support" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Uva_letter_of_support</a></div><div><br></div><div>The proposal is due May 18th so would be great if we can vote on it in this week's board meeting.</div><div><br></div><div>TIA.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Bart</div></div>______________________________<u></u>_________________<br>
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