[Board] Establishment of the UN-GGIM Working Group on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters

[Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)]

Dear Kyoung-Soo,
please excuse our late reply.

FYI: Jeff McKenna stepped back from the Board of Directors and OSGeo
presidency for personal reasons and with immediate effect. For the
interim time until a new president has been elected I will answer on
behalf of the OSGeo Foundation in my role as President Emeritus. My name
is Arnulf Christl, co-founder of OSGeo, served 6 years on the board of
directors and 4 years as president.

Thank you very much for the draft letter which I have (privately)
forward to the Board of Directors for further consultation (this address
board at lists.osgeo.org is a publicly visible and archived mailing list).

There are already quite a lot of activities going on between UN
departments and offices and it would be great to have them come together
under a more formal relationship as described in the draft letter.

Feel free to contact the board through this (public list) or myself
directly until the board has sorted out who will be your dedicated
liaison officer.

Thank you and with best regards,
Arnulf Christl <http://2016.foss4g.org/index.php/sponsoring.html>

-- 
Arnulf Christl (OSGeo)
OSGeo President Emeritus 
OSGeo Founding and Charter Member
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Arnulf_Christl


On 22.12.2015 17:36, Kyoung-Soo Eom wrote:
> Dear Jeff,
>
> I though my reply email below (dated 30 October) was not delivered
> since I used different your email and do not hear from you to my reply
> below.
>
> Attached please find a draft letter prepared in November but not
> forwarded to you since I was awaiting your reply below.
> Please review and advise.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
> Kyoung-Soo Eom
> Chief Geospatial Information Section (formerly Cartographic Section)
> Information & Communications Technology Division (ICTD)
> Department of Field Support (DFS)
> United Nations
>
> Tel: +1 (212) 963-0221
> email: eom at un.org
>
>
>
>
>
> From:        Kyoung-Soo Eom/NY/UNO
> To:        "president at osgeo.org" <president at osgeo.org>
> Date:        30/10/2015 04:34 PM
> Subject:        Re: Establishment of the UN-GGIM Working Group on
> Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Dear Jeff,
>
> Many thanks for your kind update on such a good news.
> I am so glad to hear that OSGeo has established a new committee to
> focus on working with UN (UNGIS and UN-GGIM, I guess).
> We are also discussed internally and it is very welcomed by our
> community.
>
> In regard to the exchange of official letters for partnership, while
> we are also preparing a draft letter from my end, it would be a good
> idea for you to prepare a draft letter so that we can exchange the
> draft and review each other to come up with common areas of interest.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Kyoung-Soo Eom
> Chief Geospatial Information Section (formerly Cartographic Section)
> Information & Communications Technology Division (ICTD)
> Department of Field Support (DFS)
> United Nations
>
> Tel: +1 (212) 963-0221
> email: eom at un.org
>
>
>
>
>
> From:        Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> To:        Kyoung-Soo Eom <eom at un.org>
> Date:        30/10/2015 03:47 PM
> Subject:        Re: Establishment of the UN-GGIM Working Group on
> Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Hi Kyoung-Soo,
>
> I just wanted to send you an update with good news, that the OSGeo Board
> is very interested in working with the UN-GGIM and has approved a new
> committee at its last board meeting, to focus on working with the UN.
> This is an important step I feel, in our relationship.
>
> I would also like to speak with you about making our relationship more
> formal, through the exchange of official letters that you spoke of in
> Seoul.  Maybe I could draft a letter and send it to you for review, let
> me know if that is a good plan.
>
> Please have a nice weekend,
>
> -jeff
>
>
> --
> Jeff McKenna
> President, OSGeo
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
>
>
>
>
>

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