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

[Jachym Cepicky]

Guys, I believe Jeff will have some input to this topic,

but in the past, there were different points of views of European board
members and america-based board members.

And I would like to read the Jeff's and Michael's opinion to this, because
I feel, they have more fine sense for those kinds of supporting letters
then we in Europe have

J

po 13. 4. 2015 v 10:13 odesílatel Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> napsal:

> 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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