[Board] UN Meeting

[Anita Graser]

Thank you Maxi for providing this great overview of the process and thank
you for serving as UNcom chair!

Imho the board cannot and has no interest in micro-managing the OSGeo
committees. We appreciate the hard work of all volunteers in our
committees, projects, and the community as a whole.

I'm not sure if UNcom already has a budget of its own. If not, I'd suggest
to provide a budget for 2017 so the committee can decide on participation
at meetings autonomously.

Best wishes,
Anita





On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 12:34 PM, Massimiliano Cannata <
massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> wrote:

> 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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