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

[David William Bitner]

Jo et al.,

I've just spent some time talking with Brian on the phone for a good while.
Brian has a lot of excitement and passion for this project that could take
OSGeo in some interesting directions.  I would be happy to help Brian along
the way and have encouraged him to continue discussion through the GeoData
mailing list and wiki.  There is much that we can do (and have done with
your letter of support) to support Brian through communication efforts
through the GeoData Committee.  If some of Brian's hopes for actually
competing for grants come to fruition, there will need to be some clear
actions by the Board itself.  I hope that Brian will be able to clearly give
some direction in his talks with you at the Board meeting this week.  I will
not be able to take part in the board meeting as I will be travelling. I
would hope the Board could at a minimum give Brian a bit of direction if any
of his ideas appear to be fully barking up the wrong tree so that he can
focus his efforts to engage the OSGeo community appropriately.

David

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Jo Walsh <jo at frot.org> wrote:

> 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
>



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