[Board] New MOUs proposed...

[Daniel Morissette]

FYI I asked similar questions a few weeks ago... wondering what those 
MOU's would mean in practice. You can find some answers in the following 
thread in the list archives:

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2011-August/003910.html


On 11-09-05 10:09 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
> The MOUs predate me being a board member, so please view my following
> comments as coming from way out in the uninformed peanut gallery:
>
> What do these MOUs actually mean to OSGeo?
>
> I'm familiar with agreements/statements between two organizations that say
> "we're both in favor of X, and we'll work together to make X happen".  Often
> these sorts of agreements have no deliverables behind them, they are just
> statements of principles aimed at making the organizations be friends.
> That's good and needed, sometimes.  Is that what these MOU are intended to
> do?
>
> I see statements like "mutual promotion of...", "formation of the...",
> "develop collaboration opportunities for...", and "to provide expertise and
> support for...", and so I have to wonder if instead the MOUs represent
> specific tasks that have been scoped out, e.g. with people on board to lead
> them and funding commensurate to meet the objectives?  Or is the MOU
> intended to be read as saying these are goals that we'd like to mutually
> achieve, but for which we have no hard plans as yet?
>
> To be blunt, I guess I'm asking what OSGeo resources are potentially going
> to be committed by these agreements, if any?
>
> -mpg
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:board-
>> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Tyler Mitchell
>> Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 4:03 PM
>> To: OSGeo-Board List
>> Subject: [Board] New MOUs proposed...
>>
>> As briefly discussed at the meeting earlier, we have two new memorandum
>> of understanding agreements drafted and ready for your review, questions
>> and, hopefully, your approval.  We've discussed them briefly over past two
>> month board meetings.
>>
>> 1. ICA: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_ICA - Agreement to work with
>> International Cartographic Association.  Much is already happening by its
>> members who also happen to be OSGeo members.  So I don't anticipate
>> much work on OSGeo's end to support this agreement.
>>
>> 2. SIGTE: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/MOU_SIGTE - One request was to pass
>> academic MOUs through the OSGeo education committee for feedback, that
>> has been done, resulting in no changes for the MOU.  SIGTE is a leader in
>> running various events and open source geo training, so this is a strong
>> connection to that community and another step toward a broader global
>> education network for OSGeo.
>>
>> Any questions?  If not, I'm looking for a motion to adopt these so I can
> sign
>> them off.  The coordinators are excited about having this connection.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tyler
>>
>> p.s. I'm still working on minutes from the board meeting today, but you
> can
>> see some of the discussion http://logs.qgis.org/osgeo/%23osgeo.2011-09-
>> 01.log - some of which relates to the
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