<div dir="ltr">Dear Suchith, Jeff and all,<div>I would like to have some clarification, because due to my fault, I was not able to follow deeply close the events.</div><div>So please, apologize me for the questions. I also think this could help in clarifying some aspects to all others that are in my position.</div><div><br></div><div>I will list a list of event I remember on the Geo4All initiative, please correct if it is wrong.</div><div><br></div><div>- OSGeo signed a MoU with ICA to support Open Source Geospatial Education. </div><div>- The ICA-OSGeo labs initiative started and labs started to join.</div><div>- ISPRS joined to ICA and OSGeo and a MoU was signed also with the presidend of ISPRS</div><div>- Geo4All is the "nickname" used for the ISPRS-ICA-OSGeo labs initiative</div><div>- Suchith leads the effort, and together with other colleagues a number of important actions was initiated (thanks)</div><div><br></div><div>Now, Geo4All requires some funds to support its initiatives to translate the MoU in actions.</div><div><br></div><div>So, here my questions:<br></div><div>- Does a budget for Geo4All exists? </div><div>- ISPRS, ICA and OSGeo how they support the initiative, apart from having signed the MoU?</div><div>- Why Geo4All need a website hosted in Nottingham and is not using the OSGeo infrastructure, like the OSGeo committees (incubation, marketing, etc.)?</div><div>- How Geo4All differentiates from the educational committee? Shall we consider that committee dead and replaced by Geo4All?</div><div><br></div><div>As I already asked please apologize me for my lack of information.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Massimiliano</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-05-20 23:09 GMT+02:00 Suchith Anand <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">Suchith.Anand@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Jeff.<br>
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Could i also remind you to please add the agenda item "ICA-OSGeo lab budget items reallocation" to the OSGeo Board meeting.<br>
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I request that the OSGeo Board to keep the allocation same i.e $5k allocation for ICA/OSGeo Labs from OSGeo budget 2015 (though it was earmarked fully for student travel) ,but change this into two components to support Student travel awards of FOSS4G 2015 Seoul (1500 USD ) and our additional website developments of 5 days with a budget of 3500 USD to support developers at University of Southampton (webmasters) to assist with the setting up of pages to support the regional chairs and the development of other supporting tools,such as an online annual reporting form.<br>
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Details and further links of the community discussions on this at <a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-May/001561.html" target="_blank">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/ica-osgeo-labs/2015-May/001561.html</a><br>
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Please contact us for any information needed. Thanks.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Suchith<br>
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agenda: <a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-05-21" target="_blank">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2015-05-21</a><br>
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time:<br>
<a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2015&month=5&day=21&hour=14&min=0&sec=0%2015.00UTC" target="_blank">http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2015&month=5&day=21&hour=14&min=0&sec=0%2015.00UTC</a><br>
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(I believe this is a modified time, as agreed last meeting)<br>
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-jeff<br>
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