[Board] News item for announcing OSGeo as supporting organisation GWF 2016

Sun Feb 7 09:37:45 PST 2016

Thank you Venka,

This is really an improvement of the tekst.
@all: Any other remarks or additions?
Without reaction, I 'll wait to post this message to OSGeo/news until
2016 02 08 : 17:00 CET

Dirk

On 07-02-16 17:47, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> Dirk and all,
> 
> I made some edits and additions
> to the News about OSGeo Support for GWF.
> Best
> 
> Venka
> 
> -----------------------Draft Version 2 -------------------------
> 
> *OSGeo Joins Geospatial World Forum (GWF) as Supporting Organization*
> 
> In line with OSGeo's renewed vision to "Empower everyone with open source
> geospatial", we seek to promote our activity not only though the hosting of
> events such as the FOSS4G [2], but also proactively engage with the broader
> Geospatial Community in various forums.
> 
> Our mission is foster global adoption of open geospatial technology by
> being an inclusive software foundation devoted to an open philosophy and
> participatory community driven development.
> 
> Our partnership with GWF goes back to 2007 when OSGeo organized a well
> attended OSGeo session at Map World Forum (former avatar of GWF) in
> Hyderabad, India. OSGeo was an Institutional Partner at the first GWF
> held in
> Hyderabad, India in 2011 and also at GWF 2012 in Amsterdam, The
> Netherlands.
> It is a great pleasure to renew our partnership as Supporting
> Organization for GWF 2016 [3] and organize a special OSGeo Session at
> the event.
> 
> The conference will take place in Rotterdam 23 - 26, May 2016. As OSGeo
> we will have the chance to present our multifaceted activities and
> initiatives we support. We are very exited to have this opportunity
> showcase OSGeo projects to the participants of GWF. As an inclusive
> software foundation, we attach great important to be present at tech
> events like GWF and enhance our global impact and reach.
> 
> OSGeo will organise a full day event on May 24 and wishes to initiate a
> call for presenters promote our products and core values. Volunteers can
> contact Dirk Frigne, Vice-President, OSGeo Foundation [4] to help
> organise the session. OSGeo will also be have a booth at the exhibition
> special 1 day pass for access to the exhibition area and OSGeo Session
> will be 25Euros.
> 
> Look forward to meeting you all at GWF and wish the event a great success.
> 
> Dirk Fringe
> VP, OSGeo Foundation
> 
> [1] http://geospatialworldforum.org/
> [2] http://www.foss4g.org/
> [3] http://geospatialworldforum.org/
> [4] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf
> 
> *About the Open Source Geospatial Foundation*
> 
> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) is a not-for-profit
> organization whose mission is to foster global adoption of open
> geospatial technology by being an inclusive software foundation devoted
> to an open philosophy and participatory community driven development.
> The foundation provides financial, organizational and legal support to
> the broader open source geospatial community. It provides an independent
> legal entity to which community members can contribute code, funding and
> other resources, secure in the knowledge that their contributions will
> be maintained for public benefit.
> 
> OSGeo also serves as an outreach and advocacy organization for the open
> source geospatial community, and provides a common forum and shared
> infrastructure for improving cross-project collaboration. The
> Foundation's projects are all freely available and useable under an
> OSI-certified open source license.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 
> On 2016/02/08 0:16, Dirk Frigne wrote:
>> Dear board,
>>
>>
>> I prepared a news item for the OSGeo news section on the website as an
>> action for the decision to act as supporting organisation for GWF 2016.
>> Please change and update where appropriate.
>> Any tips or advise how I should proceed to organise the site event is
>> more than welcome.
>>
>>
>> *OSGeo news* *OSGeo supporting organisation of the Geospatial World
>> Forum in Rotterdam May 23 - 26*
>>
>> According to the new OSGeo Vision "Empower everyone with open source
>> geospatial", OSGeo decided to step forward, not only towards the calssic
>> community activities, but also to the broader Geospatial Community in
>> general.
>>
>> One of the goals for the next ten years is to foster the use of open
>> source geospatial software.
>>
>> It is in this role that OSGeo is happy to be invited as a supporting
>> organisation for the Geospatial World Forum conference [1]. The
>> conference will take place in Rotterdam May 2016, 23 - 26.
>> As Osgeo we will have the chance to present the different activities we
>> are standing for, and the different initiatives we support.
>> It is a great forum to present some of the great projects OSGeo hosts to
>> a broader geospatial community. We think as an inclusive software
>> foundation, it is very important to be present at all sort of Geo
>> events, enlarging our impact on the Globe.
>>
>> OSGeo will organise a full day event on May 24 and want to initiate for
>> this reason a call for papers from OSGeo projects to promote our core
>> values and products. Volunteers can contact Dirk Frigne to help
>> organising the event.
>>
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>> [1] http://geospatialworldforum.org/
>>
>>
>>
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