[Board] Invitation to join Open Invention Network

[Anita Graser]

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 11:21 AM, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> sorry for delay, I'm forwarding to Board of Directors mailing list.
>
> @Board, could you please add this topic to next meeting
>

​Done: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2016-10

Best wishes,
Anita​




>
> ?
>
> Jachym - secretary
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016, 16:14 Frank Casey <fcasey at openinventionnetwork.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> While going through my files I discovered that I didn't receive a
>> response to my invitation to join the Open Invention Network (OIN).  Since
>> I don't know if you ever received it or it got caught in a Spam filter, I
>> thought I'd try again.
>>
>> Our invitation is a serious one that is waiting for you to accept as over
>> 2,000 other organizations have (see attached press release).  There is
>> still no cost to join or maintain membership in OIN and we'd be pleased to
>> have the OSGeo Foundation join.
>>
>> I look forward to hearing from you.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Frank Casey
>> Open Invention Network
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: *Frank Casey* <fcasey at openinventionnetwork.com>
>> Date: Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 1:37 PM
>> Subject: Invitation to join Open Invention Network
>> To: info at osgeo.org
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> My name is Frank Casey and I am writing to you on behalf of the Open
>> Invention Network (OIN), a community formed to insulate those who operate
>> in the Linux/Open Source environment from patent aggression.  I would like
>> to invite you to join our community.
>>
>> OIN is a community of almost 1,000 members from all phases of the
>> Linux/Open Source ecosystem who pledge not to use patents, related to
>> Linux/Open Source technology, aggressively against each other.
>>
>> We are the largest community in the world to address patent challenges
>> and we would like to have the Open Source Geospatial Foundation join join
>> us.  Our goal is to create a nonaggression "standard of behavior" and we
>> would like your support to make this important principle stronger.
>>
>> There is no cost to join OIN and I invite you to visit our website at
>> http://www.openinventionnetwork.com and read an article at
>> http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/80447.html?rss=1.
>>
>> I thank you for your time and look forward to hearing back from you.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Frank Casey
>> Open Invention Network LLC
>>
>>
>>
>>
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