[Board] OSGeo involvement in ufficial project

[Jachym Cepicky]

Cameron,

not only, that OSGeo itself can be one of the project partners (which is
generally speaking almost impossible, due to OSGeo's location (USA), as well as
usually some contributions to budget), but some projects can have institute of
'advisory board'. Board members are usually not involved financially, except
for travel costs reimbursements.

Nobody is certainly expecting, that OSGeo would delegate people to EU projects.
But the cooperation could look simillary, to what we have setuped with OGC: If
someone from our community indicates his/her interest of wanting to be in some
EU-founded project and if it would not imply any financial costs for OSGeo
(NOTE: having budget for EU-co-founded projects would be maybe nice as well),
this person could be delegated to speak on behalf of OSGeo within this project.

Benefits for us, which I see, is bigger impact on EU community, traveling
possibilities for our members, therefore again bigger impact.

Jachym

On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 09:47:49PM +1100, Cameron Shorter wrote:
>    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] [1]http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Board_Priorities
> 
>    On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Maria Antonia Brovelli
>    <[2]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
> 
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>      collection
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>    3. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2014.887150#.UwPVuIVnibF
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