[Board] [Geodata] OSGeo is registered as an INSPIRE SDIC

Cameron Shorter cameron.shorter at gmail.com
Fri Jul 12 12:03:13 PDT 2013


Arnulf,
If osgeo has a volunteer member prepared to give their time on behalf of 
osgeo for such an activity, I'm prepared to use my board vote to back 
you. Thankyou.

On 12/07/2013 11:38 PM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> for completeness, here is more background:
> http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/5160
>
> On 12.07.2013 15:37, Arnulf Christl wrote:
>> Folks,
>> INSPIRE (or rather the JRC which is driving force behind implementing
>> it) searches for contributors to a standards / implementation
>> maintenance group. If you want to register yourself and have no other
>> affiliation please feel free to use the OSGeo SDIC as reference.
>> http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/action/mif
>>
>> PLEASE NOTE that no costs will be reimbursed - it is expected that
>> people happily contribute their life time for free. Having said that -
>> you might find a sponsor in one of the member states who will be happy
>> to pay you for your work. So registering here m might potentially help
>> you to get noticed. Just a suggestion, no guarantee that this will work...
>>
>> Board,
>> to be able to register at the portal for a Spatial Data Interest
>> Community (SDIC) I have (again) registered OSGeo on the INSPIRE portal.
>> They only allow one representative for each SDIC which makes absolutely
>> no sense at all for OSGeo but hey, thats the flexible world of the
>> European Union, right? Ahrgl. For now my name is there but I am more
>> than happy to step back if anybody else is interested.
>>
>> I have copied the information from the INSPIRE portal to our Wiki. This
>> is just for reference so that we know what is going on (the OSGeo entry
>> is apparently not visible on the INSPIRE portal - so not sure why they
>> hunted me through a dozen web forms...):
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/INSPIRE_SDIC
>>
>> Have a nice weekend,
>> Arnulf
>>
>


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