[Board] Eclipse foundation

[Peter Batty]

I'm going to be in Europe the week of the Location Intelligence conference
so am not a candidate I'm afraid.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at mapgears.com
> wrote:

> I am of the same opinion as Michael that both groups can complement each
> other well and we have a strong interest in trying to join forces with
> them, and being at that first F2F meeting of the Eclipse Location IWG will
> be a key step.
>
> Unfortunately I don't think I can make it myself (I'll know better in a
> few weeks). If Michael can do it then great, otherwise if another member of
> the board was already planning to be at the Location Intelligence
> conference in May and interested in participating in the meeting then
> please let us know. We could brief you on our exchanges with Eclipse so far
> and hopefully you could help carry the flag after.
>
> With respect to funding for ambassador travel, we had a budget for 2011
> but I don't remember if we addressed that yet for 2012.
>
> Daniel
>
>
>
> On 12-04-19 2:06 PM, Michael P. Gerlek wrote:
>
>> Daniel and I have been talking to the Eclipse Location Industry Working
>> Group (http://wiki.eclipse.org/**Location<http://wiki.eclipse.org/Location>)
>> about ways we could partner with them -- they have some strengths we don't
>> (major engagement with industry) and we have some strengths they don't
>> (huge codebase and community).
>>
>> As a first step, we can clearly see an MOU forming. My opinion only, of
>> course, but in the longer term, such an alliance might address some of the
>> things we'd like to do but haven't shown good abilities at -- like fund
>> raising for projects and getting major industry involvement. OSGeo might be
>> considered as two different groups: the community and code development
>> side, which is very good already, and the "business development side" which
>> could be aligned with Eclipse. Again, just my early opinions at this point.
>>
>> Anyway, they are holding their 1st meeting as a F2F at the Location
>> Intelligence Conference in Washing DC in May, and would like OSGeo to be
>> involved.
>>
>> I propose we send an Ambassador or two. Daniel and I have started the
>> conversation with them, but any one of us could do it.
>>
>> Do we have any policies and cost structures for the Ambassador function
>> yet?
>>
>> -mpg
>>
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