<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Loomio motion is now live:<div><a href="https://www.loomio.org/d/iG1oVeQ7/request-for-board-to-sign-enabling-fair-data-commitment-statement">https://www.loomio.org/d/iG1oVeQ7/request-for-board-to-sign-enabling-fair-data-commitment-statement</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Angelos</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 5:27 PM Jeff McKenna <<a href="mailto:jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com">jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Peter,<br>
<br>
I have added this as an agenda item at the next regularly scheduled <br>
Board meeting, on 6 September <br>
(<a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-09-06" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-09-06</a>).  Would you mind <br>
attending this IRC meeting in person?<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
-jeff<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
On 2018-08-07 6:38 AM, "Peter Löwe" wrote:<br>
> Hello Board,<br>
> <br>
> thanks for the feedback so far regarding the proposal to have OSGeo officially sign the online commitment statement of the Enabling FAIR Data project (<a href="http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/commitment-to-enabling-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/commitment-to-enabling-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/</a>).<br>
> <br>
> AFAIK there is currently no hard deadline for the signing of the commitment statement, so the Board can discuss the topic with ample time.<br>
> <br>
> The projects goal is to permanently establish the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) as a step towards Open Science. From this point of view, open source software, like the graduated OSGeo projects) are considered a part of scientific _data_, which is/should be provided via well curated data repositories (i.e. software repository infrastructures as required by the OSGeo incubation process).<br>
> <br>
> More info about the project here: <a href="http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/commitment-to-enabling-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/commitment-to-enabling-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/</a><br>
> <br>
> Overview of the signatories so far:<br>
> <a href="http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/commitment-to-enabling-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/signatories/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.copdess.org/enabling-fair-data-project/commitment-to-enabling-fair-data-in-the-earth-space-and-environmental-sciences/signatories/</a><br>
> <br>
> best,<br>
> Peter<br>
> <br>
> <<a href="mailto:peter.loewe@gmx.de" target="_blank">peter.loewe@gmx.de</a>><br>
> <br>
> <br>
> <br>
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