[Board] request for letter of support for Jan Hartmann (UvA)

[Massimiliano Cannata]

>From my point of view there is no issue.

Whoever asks for a support letter which could help in gain funds to
develop, promote, advance FOSS4G should be supported by OSGeo.
No exclusion, even if two people are bidding in "competition", they could
always ask for a letter each and I don't see any conflict.

I strongly believe that We, as the foundation, should always support fund
raising as one of our primary objective and only verify that the proposal
is in line with our CoC and mission

Maxi



Il giorno lun 13 apr 2015 alle ore 08:31 Bart van den Eijnden <
bartvde at osgis.nl> ha scritto:

> Hi Jachym,
>
> in this case Jan’s “competition” is only research institutes from other
> (non-geo) disciplines, so personally I don’t see the issue.
>
> Do you still see an issue given the above?
>
> Best regards,
> Bart
>
> On 13 Apr 2015, at 07:10, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry about remaining still. Maybe you already addressed this. But AFAIK
> the policy is, not to explicitly support anybody's grants/project
> proposals, because of once you would have to support one project over
> another, which could cause us a lot of troubles..
>
> ?
>
> J
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015, 09:59 Bart van den Eijnden <bartvde at osgis.nl> wrote:
>
>> Hi board,
>>
>> I’ve been contacted by Jan Hartmann from the University of Amsterdam to
>> see if OSGeo can write a letter of support for a large non-profit proposal
>> he is putting together, details are here:
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Uva_letter_of_support
>>
>> The proposal is due May 18th so would be great if we can vote on it in
>> this week's board meeting.
>>
>> TIA.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Bart
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