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

[Michael Smith]

I agree with Maxi. I see no reason not to support this letter.  And I agree
with Bart, we would support any group advancing open source geospatial, even
if they were competing.

Mike

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Michael Smith
OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
treasurer at osgeo.org

From:  Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>
Date:  Monday, April 13, 2015 at 5:08 AM
To:  Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>, Bart van den
Eijnden <bartvde at osgis.nl>
Cc:  OSGeo Board <board at lists.osgeo.org>
Subject:  Re: [Board] request for letter of support for Jan Hartmann (UvA)

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 Jan¹s ³competition² is only research institutes from other
>> (non-geo) disciplines, so personally I don¹t 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,
>>>> 
>>>> I¹ve 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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