[Board] Sponsor NASA WorldWind student competition

[Peter Batty]

I'm -0 for the same reasons cited by others.


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Mark Lucas <mlucas17 at mac.com> wrote:

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