[Board] OSGeo membership in GLTN

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Arnulf,

This looks good.

Also, I will be at the "AfricaGEO" event[1] this July, in Cape Town,
with fellow OSGeo leaders like Gavin and TimS, so maybe Danilo or
Clarissa would like to meet there to discuss this partnership, or use
that as an official launch.

-jeff


[1] http://www.africageo.org/






On 2/3/2014, 9:41 AM, Arnulf Christl wrote:
> Dear Board, I am currently working on a project for the UN-Habitat
> Office. They develop an Open Source project called STDM (social
> tenure domain model). It is a tool, data schema and concept to help
> data collection of tenure data in informal settlements: 
> http://www.gltn.net/index.php/land-tools/social-tenure-domain-model-stdm
>
>  The toolset includes a plug-in for QGIS and a data schema for
> PostGIS. STDM is a dedicated pro-poor effort and has been designed
> especially to address the continuum of tenure relations typically
> found in informal settlements. Slums usually lack a cadaster or
> other precise mapping background and the relations between
> ownership and tenure are not well defined. This tool is designed to
> address these issues.
> 
> The project has been started through GLTN (the Global Land Tool 
> Network, http://www.gltn.net/) a non-profit association dedicated
> to developing tools for land registry and management. We (OSGeo)
> have now been invited to become a partner of this association.
> Joining this partnership will allow partners to fund individuals
> through OSGeo to join forces on the project, collaborate on the
> software, take part in meetings, conferences, workshops, etc.
> 
> Our side of the commitment would be the provision of
> infrastructure support for the STDM tool, the kind of support we
> already give to some projects. The current focus lies on operating
> the mailing lists for the project and set up a landing page in our
> Wiki (which I both commit to doing). The STDM project has been set
> up in compliance with OSGeo's way of doing things, the code will be
> Open Source, the documentation available for free, etc. The coding
> aspect of the project is not very big so we currently do not
> foresee the need to go through incubation but it might be a nice
> addition for our OSGeo Live effort.
> 
> OSGeo's support for QGIS and PostGIS is highly appreciated by GLTN
> and they acknowledge this as part of our active support in this 
> partnership. So basically we are already doing all that they need
> and in turn they would like to give back through this partnership.
> 
> I have already confirmed that we can set up mailing lists and will
> do this in the next days (see ticket #1295).
> 
> Could the board please go through the attached draft request for 
> membership and raise any questions you might have. Please note that
> I will only be available until the end of the week but you can
> also contact Danilo Antonio directly, he is the project lead at
> UN-Habitat and copied in this mail - or Clarissa Augustinus, Chief,
> Land & Tenure Section, UN-HABITAT.
> 
> I would be happy to act as the initial point of contact unless 
> somebody else with a better background in our African OSGeo
> chapter activities is highly interested in further developing this
> relationship.
> 
> Best regards, Arnulf
> 
> PS: Please note that I will be away most of the rest of February
> and into March.
> 
> 
>