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

[Jeff McKenna]

This is a good example of the challenge/stress I was referring to.  In 
your case both you and another party (private company) contacted me 
privately to support a bid and I asked repeatedly to request it publicly 
instead.

But I agree, steps/guidelines on a wiki page is needed right away for 
how to request official support for contracts, it is not an easy thing 
to handle.

-jeff




On 2015-04-13 8:21 AM, Polimi wrote:
> I'm happy to see that now the approach of the Board has changed with
> respect to the past. I asked twice and twice my request was rejected.
> What is the new policy the Board has in mind? To support always? To
> support only in some cases? Which cases?
> Thanks for answering.
> Best.
> Maria
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> Il giorno 13/apr/2015, alle ore 12:31, Michael Smith
> <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com <mailto:michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>> ha
> scritto:
>
>> 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
>>
>> ----
>> Michael Smith
>> OSGeo Foundation Treasurer
>> treasurer at osgeo.org <mailto:treasurer at osgeo.org>
>>
>> From: Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>>
>> Date: Monday, April 13, 2015 at 5:08 AM
>> To: Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch
>> <mailto:massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>>, Bart van den Eijnden
>> <bartvde at osgis.nl <mailto:bartvde at osgis.nl>>
>> Cc: OSGeo Board <board at lists.osgeo.org <mailto: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 <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 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 <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,
>>>
>>>             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
>>>