<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">OSGeo:uk is a new chapter that doesn’t yet have a formal voting structure (we discussed this at our AGM last week and will implement over the next month or so). I suggest that in the meantime those who are subscribed to this list respond to this mail with +1 or 0 or -1 and we can take the summary of that as the view of OSGeo:UK (it would not bind us to subsequently affiliating or whatever will be proposed by OSGeo-EU).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you strongly disagree with this way of polling the UK chapter feel free to suggest an alternative.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally I am very supportive of this idea. I think our loose confederation of SMEs in the European FOSS4G community needs to have a way of presenting to major governmental and pan-governmental bodies. My vote is +1</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 20 Jun 2016, at 20:00, <a href="mailto:discuss-request@lists.osgeo.org" class="">discuss-request@lists.osgeo.org</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">Send UK mailing list submissions to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><a href="mailto:uk@lists.osgeo.org" class="">uk@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class=""><br class="">To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/uk<br class="">or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>uk-request@lists.osgeo.org<br class=""><br class="">You can reach the person managing the list at<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>uk-owner@lists.osgeo.org<br class=""><br class="">When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific<br class="">than "Re: Contents of UK digest..."<br class="">Today's Topics:<br class=""><br class=""> 1. FOSS4G-EU Local Chapter (till.adams@foss4g2016.org)<br class=""> 2. Re: FOSS4G-EU Local Chapter (Ian Turton)<br class=""><br class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">till.adams@foss4g2016.org<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">[OSGeo-UK] FOSS4G-EU Local Chapter</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">20 June 2016 at 13:17:58 BST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Finland@lists.osgeo.org, Gfoss@lists.gfoss.it, fossgis-talk-liste@fossgis.de, madrid@lists.osgeo.org, ireland@lists.osgeo.org, greek@lists.osgeo.org, belgium@lists.osgeo.org, freegeocz@fsv.cvut.cz, francophone@lists.osgeo.org, barcelona@lists.osgeo.org, board-nl@lists.osgeo.org, belgium@lists.osgeo.org, croatia@lists.osgeo.org, danmark@lists.osgeo.org, portugal@lists.osgeo.org, osgeo-russia@lists.osgeo.org, scotland@lists.osgeo.org, spanish@lists.osgeo.org, uk@lists.osgeo.org<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">marcvloemans1@gmail.com, gert-jan@osgeo.nl, dirk.frigne@geosparc.com<br class=""></span></div><br class=""><br class="">Dear FOSS4G local chapters,<br class=""><br class="">(if I missed any local chapter, please feel free to spread the word also to other European chapters.)<br class=""><br class="">Marc Vloemans, Gert-Jan van der Wejden (both from local dutch chapter), Dirk Frigne (from local chapter Belgium and OSGeo board member) and me-myself-and-I, Till Adams (from german speaking local chapter FOSSGIS e.V.) met end of May after Geospatial World Forum in Rotterdam. We discussed about the potential and the need to have an European local OSGeo chapter, which is not "above" the local chapters and which does not overtake tasks, that are already well covered by OSGeo.org, but that overtakes different, special European-related tasks and challenges, that aren't already covered by local chapters or by OSGeo.org itself.<br class=""><br class="">Please find our ideas and plans in the OSGeo WIKI [1].<br class=""><br class="">Before sending a formal proposal to the board to ask for recognition for the Local EU chapter, we'd like you to comment on our ideas with the goal to make an even better OSGeo for all of us. Please comment directly on the page in the WIKI, so you can be sure to share your thoughts with everybody.<br class=""><br class="">Because we want to go forward with that soon, please consider on commenting ASAP as we see FOSS4G in Bonn as a good opportunity to establish the local EU chapter.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Hope to see you all in Bonn [2] & with kind regards,<br class=""><br class="">Till<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe<br class="">[2] http://2016.foss4g.org<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Ian Turton <ijturton@gmail.com><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: [OSGeo-UK] FOSS4G-EU Local Chapter</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">20 June 2016 at 17:33:45 BST<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(127, 127, 127, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">till.adams@foss4g2016.org, "uk@lists.osgeo.org" <uk@lists.osgeo.org><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Maybe the UK group should hold off replying until Friday :-)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 June 2016 at 13:17, <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:till.adams@foss4g2016.org" target="_blank" class="">till.adams@foss4g2016.org</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear FOSS4G local chapters,<br class="">
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(if I missed any local chapter, please feel free to spread the word also to other European chapters.)<br class="">
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Marc Vloemans, Gert-Jan van der Wejden (both from local dutch chapter), Dirk Frigne (from local chapter Belgium and OSGeo board member) and me-myself-and-I, Till Adams (from german speaking local chapter FOSSGIS e.V.) met end of May after Geospatial World Forum in Rotterdam. We discussed about the potential and the need to have an European local OSGeo chapter, which is not "above" the local chapters and which does not overtake tasks, that are already well covered by OSGeo.org, but that overtakes different, special European-related tasks and challenges, that aren't already covered by local chapters or by OSGeo.org itself.<br class="">
<br class="">
Please find our ideas and plans in the OSGeo WIKI [1].<br class="">
<br class="">
Before sending a formal proposal to the board to ask for recognition for the Local EU chapter, we'd like you to comment on our ideas with the goal to make an even better OSGeo for all of us. Please comment directly on the page in the WIKI, so you can be sure to share your thoughts with everybody.<br class="">
<br class="">
Because we want to go forward with that soon, please consider on commenting ASAP as we see FOSS4G in Bonn as a good opportunity to establish the local EU chapter.<br class="">
<br class="">
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Hope to see you all in Bonn [2] & with kind regards,<br class="">
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Till<br class="">
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[1] <a href="https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe</a><br class="">
[2] <a href="http://2016.foss4g.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">http://2016.foss4g.org</a><br class="">
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