[Board] Sponsor NASA WorldWind student competition

[Mark Lucas]

I would be -1 and against this.

The ossim team received a cease and desist letter from Patrick Hogan the PM for Worldwind about a year ago.  We were told we could not interface with NASA data sources in the same fashion as Worldwind.  Patrick went on to elaborate that he had to maintain complete control of the program to preserve his year to year budget.  There was one primary programmer at the time, they were intending to make the code visible in some fashion - but not as a true open source project.

I could go on, but you get the idea.

mark



On Mar 4, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:

> Hello Board,
> 
> I have been approached by the organizers of the NASA WorldWind Europa
> Challenge (http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it/), who really want to
> have OSGeo sponsor the event.  It is a great way to have students using
> Open Source spatial software.
> 
> Essentially it comes down to this:
> 
> - a minimum sponsor amount of 500 euros
> - the money goes towards the winning teams
> - then we can place an OSGeo logo on the site
> 
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> 
> I am a strong +1 for this.  In the extended Board meeting we discussed
> being flexible for certain sponsorship opportunities, and I believe this
> exercise follows the core principles of OSGeo.
> 
> I would like to make a motion to sponsor the NASA WorldWind Europa
> Challenge, with a small amount of 500 euros.
> 
> -jeff
> 
> 
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