[Board] Sponsor NASA WorldWind student competition

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks for the feedback all.  I've since contacted the organizers of the
student exercise offline (Maria and Suchith) and I have offered using my
own funds instead.

Sorry to bother everyone with this.

-jeff




On 13-03-05 1:06 PM, Mark Lucas 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
> 
> 
> 
> On Mar 4, 2013, at 9:44 AM, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
> <mailto: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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