[Board] Agenda Item - Broadband Mapping (p-o-c)

[Jo Walsh]

dear Brian,

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Brian Hamlin<maplabs at light42.com> wrote:
> Request for OSGeo  Board Meeting Agenda item:
>  The US Federal Stimulus Act of 2009 ("ARRA") is creating both challenges
> and new opportunities as projects declared in the Act get underway. With
> regard to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration -
> Broadband Technology Opportunities Program created by the ARRA, the OSGeo
> Board has issued a letter dated 03July09 stating a strong backing of the
> concept of transparent and public geodata, and an interest in contacting
> principals close to the issue. Some members of the Board expressed that they
> may not have time to give this matter their full attention, if and when it
> proceeds.

I added this as an item to the upcoming Board meeting.

It would be good to know more about what benefit OSGeo would gain
(institutionally, and for its members) in being active on this issue.
Is there potential project funding (or the ability to direct it) at
stake? :)

I would suggest that David Bitner the chair of the Geodata Committee
could be usefully nominated as contact person, if he's happy to do so
given we have a sense of what time commitment or document preparation
would be needed. OSGeo-US doesn't have a distinct chapter, just a set
of regional ones, right? ;)

Sorry I missed the original thread, was in the middle of moving and
offline; just looking at it now at
http://n2.nabble.com/US-ARRA-Broadband-mapping-td3142334.html

cheers,


jo