[Board] OSGeo involvement in ufficial project

Tue Mar 11 15:33:21 PDT 2014

Thanks Cameron

I'm happy to see that there is an interest.

Waiting for the OSGeo Board policy definition.

Best.

Maria

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Da: cameron.shorter at gmail.com <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> per conto di Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at lisasoft.com>
Inviato: marted? 11 marzo 2014 11.47
A: Maria Antonia Brovelli
Cc: board at lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [Board] OSGeo involvement in ufficial project

Hi Maria,
These are good questions, and a positive outcome of this email thread would be to refine our OSGeo Priorities [1] to provide guidelines to answer these types of questions.

OSGeo's strength is our community of volunteers and our collective quality of projects.
As we are volunteers with very little budget, we usually are not in a position to support projects financially, and we are not in a position to commit our volunteers to specific tasks of helping a project.

What we can do is note:
Project XXX aligns with OSGeo principles (as per board priorities), and makes use of / extends OSGeo projects. The OSGeo Board notes the potential value of this project and recommend that this project should be encouraged.
Projects which have followed similar principles have attracted OSGeo volunteers and attracted co-sponsorship, and the OSGeo Board would like to encourage uptake of this project.

[1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Board_Priorities

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it<mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it>> wrote:

Dear OSgeo Directors

as I happen sometimes to be invoved in applications for some european or national projects, I'm wondering if OSGeo wants to be involved in such appplications (and consequent projects)  and in which way (partnership, advisory board membership, supporting with an endorsement, nothing at all). Horizon2020 has started and in my opinion this could be an occasion at least of visibility also for OSGeo. I'm not speaking about possible involvement of single members of OSGeo, that's another story.

I realize that I'm asking that on a privileged point of view (Politecnico is one of the best technical university in Europe) and therefore there could be a reciprocal interest for both the parts and that, on the opposite,  you have to be cautios because obviosly you have to deal with a great variety of possible situations.

Thanks for considering this question, if you believe it fits the interests of OSGeo also.

Best.

Maria Brovelli

Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Vice Rector for Como Campus - Politecnico di Milano

Public Participation GIS: a FOSS architecture enabling field-data collection
 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2014.887150#.UwPVuIVnibF

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