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

[Michael Smith]

Hmm, I didn't know about previous private requests.

But hearing that, I agree with Jeff, we should support if it matches our
mission and if the request is done publicly.

Mike

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Michael Smith
OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
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On 4/13/15, 7:37 AM, "Jeff McKenna" <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:

>Jachym is correct, in the past I was contacted offline by several groups
>to support bids, and I always make a strong stand against this and ask
>that the request be done publicly on the Board list (imagine if I start
>signing support letters offline, including those that benefit my own
>company) ; in this case the request was done publicly, and I have no
>problem supporting it.
>
>-jeff
>
>
>
>On 2015-04-13 6:08 AM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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