<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>+1 </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> Board <<a href="mailto:board-bounces@lists.osgeo.org">board-bounces@lists.osgeo.org</a>> on behalf of Jody Garnett <<a href="mailto:jody.garnett@gmail.com">jody.garnett@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, December 11, 2015 at 6:23 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Polimi <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>>, <<a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Board] Motion: letter of support for proposal to Ministry of Education, University and Research in Italy<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;">+1 ( to endorse the letter as written on behalf of our foundation )<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 3:22 PM Polimi <<a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><div><pre><font face="UICTFontTextStyleTallBody"><span style="white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Dear OSGeo Board Members </span></font></pre><pre><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">together with colleagues of other italian universities we are writing a
proposal in answering the current call of the Italian Ministry of
University. We are proposing a reseach based of urban geo big data
(abstract already sent. The abstract was modified as Jody suggested putting "geospatial database" instead of "geodatabase" which can be misunderstood).</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The units involved are: </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Politecnico di Milano (PI) Maria Brovelli </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Politecnico di Torino, Piero Boccardo </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">La Sapienza University Rome, Mattia Crespi </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Padua University, Francesco Pirotti </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">CNR, Riccardo Lanari </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">ISPRA, Michele Munafò </span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">The project is based on open data and openGIS software. I wonder if, as
*OSGeo*, you may/want to provide an endorsement letter.
In case, I attached in my previous mail a draft where simply you say that the project is
of interest. Obviously feel free to modify or add what you want in the endorsement letter.</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Best regards.</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleTallBody;white-space:normal;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Maria</span></pre><br><div><b style="font-size:13pt;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">----------------------------------------------------</b></div><div><div><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="margin:0px"><div><b style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></b></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli<br>Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor<br>Politecnico di Milano</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"; OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET </span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)">Sol Katz Award 2015</span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><br></span></div></div><div name="divtagdefaultwrapper" style="margin:0px"><span style="background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0)"><font><font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><a>Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO</a> (ITALY)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt">Tel. <a href="tel:+39-031-3327336" target="_blank">+39-031-3327336</a> - Mob. <a href="tel:+39-328-0023867" target="_blank">+39-328-0023867</a> - fax. <a href="tel:+39-031-3327321" target="_blank">+39-031-3327321</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt">e-mail1: <a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:maria.brovelli@polimi.it" target="_blank">maria.brovelli@polimi.it</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><a>e-mail2</a>: <a href="mailto:prorettrice@como.polimi.it" target="_blank">prorettrice@como.polimi.it</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0pt"><br></p></font></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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