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

[Even Rouault]

Le lundi 13 avril 2015 14:06:42, Jeff McKenna a écrit :
> 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,

Something was drafted some time ago apparently:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support

Even
> 
> -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
> 
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