[Board] UN Meeting

[Massimiliano Cannata]

dear Steven and Board,
as chair of the UnitedNation committee I want to clarify that the process
is very clear and transparent.

1) in 2015 at FOSS4G Seoul the UN had a meeting with the OSGeo board to ask
for support in developing their initiative toward an Open Source solution
to support UN missions
2) OSGeo accepted and a new committee was formed ("UnitedNation committee":
UNcom) with open membership
3) OSGeo board asks for a responsible of the chapter and I was appointed as
chair of the new committee together with Prof. Brovelli to share the work
load
4) the two chairs of the UNcom participated in Brinfdisi at the kick-off of
the "UN open GIS" initiative
4) myself and Maria worked together with UN to set up the initiative
providing our contributions and decided to act on two mainstreams (OSgeo
and geo4all) so to double our footprint
5) OSGeo and Geo4All is deeply part of the initiative with UNcom members in
all the "UN open GIS" initiative governance bodies
6) in November a new general f2f meeting is going to be held in Seoul and
the UN chair invited me and Maria as co-chairs of the OSGeo UNcom and
members of the "UN open GIS" initiative strategic board

*As i'm always direct i would like to to be clear regarding voices that I
heard that I would like to have an "holiday" financed by OSGeo to go to
Seoul and participate to this meeting:*
*this is absolutely false and I consider any inference or rumors in this
direction very offensive.*
I have many things to do and leaving one week for this meeting would be
very expensive for me (both for family and work), in fact I would try to
skip this if possible.

See https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee for more info about
activities conducted.


Best Regards,
maxi


2016-10-10 11:36 GMT+02:00 Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com>:

> I hope the board will separate a discussion on whether it wishes to be
> represented at this meeting from the process of selecting a representative.
>
> Ideally the Board would set out how attendance at this meeting fits in
> with its broader outreach strategy, identify the objectives of attendance
> and through that the type of representation that is needed (i.e. advocacy,
> marketing, standards, technical or academic)
>
> The process of selecting a delegate to support should be open and
> transparent providing an opportunity for any qualified OSGeo member to put
> themselves forward for the role. The Board should in my opinion, set out a
> policy and process for selecting representatives before making a decision
> on who should represent us at this meeting.
> ______
> Steven
>
>
> On 9 Oct 2016, at 20:00, board-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
>
> Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2016 10:57:36 +0200
> From: Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch>
> To: OSGeo Board <board at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: [Board] UN meeting
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> Dear Directors,
> I would like to recall a motion that was set in stand-by in the Bonn board
> meeting. I kindly ask you to discuss the support the of one or two OSGeo
> representative of the UN Open Gis initiative strategic board to this
> important meeting in Seoul.
>
> Regards
> Maxi
>
>
>
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-- 
*Massimiliano Cannata*

Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica

Responsabile settore Geomatica


Istituto scienze della Terra

Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design

Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana

Campus Trevano, CH - 6952 Canobbio

Tel. +41 (0)58 666 62 14

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massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch

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