[Board] OSGeo involvement in ufficial project
Jachym Cepicky
jachym.cepicky at gmail.com
Wed Mar 12 04:21:02 PDT 2014
Yes, I've forgotten:
OSGeo could be also part of EU-founded project trough it's local chapters. One
of the sollution could be to form OSGeo-EU association of local chapters, with
separate budget. Whoa, that sounds crazy.
I would rather support, that already existing local chapters would join the
project, due to human-resources overhead
Jachym
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:39:15AM +0000, Maria Antonia Brovelli wrote:
> Jachym,
>
> for the first point, it is worth verifying if OSGeo can have a double location, one also in Europe. But then, the problem is how to get money and who works on the project. So, I understand that this is not trivial and probably what is done by other organizations could be analysed.
> In any case, yes, at least the other points touched by you can be considered.
>
> Maria
>
>
> Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
> Vice Rector for Como Campus - Politecnico di Milano
>
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> ________________________________________
> Da: Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>
> Inviato: mercoledì 12 marzo 2014 11.12
> A: Cameron Shorter
> Cc: Maria Antonia Brovelli; board at lists.osgeo.org
> Oggetto: Re: [Board] OSGeo involvement in ufficial project
>
> 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
> >
> > Public Participation GIS: a FOSS architecture enabling field-data
> > collection
> >
> > [3]http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2014.887150#.UwPVuIVnibF
> >
> >
> >
> > ISPRS WG IV/5 "Web and Cloud Based Geospatial Services and Applications"
> > - Co-chair - OSGeo Charter Member - ICA - OSGeo Advisory Board Member -
> > SIFET Scientific Commitee Member
> >
> >
> >
> > Via Natta, 12/14 - 22100 COMO (ITALIA)
> >
> > Tel. [4]+39-031-3327336 - Mob. [5]+39-328-0023867 - fax.
> > [6]+39-031-3327321
> >
> > e-mail1: [7]maria.brovelli at polimi.it
> >
> > e-mail2: [8]prorettrice at como.polimi.it
> >
> >
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> > References
> >
> > Visible links
> > 1. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_of_Directors#Board_Priorities
> > 2. mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it
> > 3. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17538947.2014.887150#.UwPVuIVnibF
> > 4. file:///tmp/tel:%2B39-031-3327336
> > 5. file:///tmp/tel:%2B39-328-0023867
> > 6. file:///tmp/tel:%2B39-031-3327321
> > 7. mailto:maria.brovelli at polimi.it
> > 8. mailto:prorettrice at como.polimi.it
> > 9. mailto:Board at lists.osgeo.org
> > 10. http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
> > 11. http://www.lisasoft.com/
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