[Board] Fwd: Ingres geospatial program cancelled

[Jeroen Ticheler]

That is indeed very sad news... 
Andrew, I hope you have some good opportunities to take your geo database ambitions further! What will happen now with Ingres geo-database work? I hope you land in a good place and are able to support OSGeo again from there!
Greetings,
Jeroen

On 13 jan 2011, at 16:53, Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) wrote:

> FYI - Very sad news, unfortunately some changes at Ingres have affected their interest in sponsoring OSGeo.  Andrew has been a great advocate for OSGeo at Ingres and beyond through his work with http://www.fosslc.org,  Frank and I have thanked and wished him well, his email is below if you want to as well.  
> 
> I'm guessing a few geospatial programmers will be looking for work opportunities in case you know others in need.
> 
> Tyler
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Andrew Ross <andrew.ross at ingres.com>
>> Date: January 13, 2011 4:17:54 AM PST
>> To: "Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)" <tmitchell at osgeo.org>
>> Subject: Ingres geospatial program cancelled
>> 
>> Hi Tyler,
>> 
>> I have bad news I'm afraid. Because of a shift in focus, Ingres has decided to cancel our geospatial program. Also affected will be sponsorship of OSGeo and projects - Ingres will no longer be sponsoring.
>> 
>> Once again I would like to thank you and the good people OSGeo for so much support for our project. We are grateful for the warm welcome we received, the collaboration on various projects, and the opportunity to speak at multiple FOSS4G conferences.
>> 
>> On a personal note, I am sorry this did not work out differently as I'd hoped.
>> 
>> The team and I are going to be let go from our positions. If you need to reach me, please use fosslc at gmail.com. I used this email for our geospatial project mostly anyhow.
>> 
>> Take care, and thank you again.
>> 
>> Andrew Ross
>> Director, Engineering
>> Ingres
>> http://ingres.com
> 
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