[Board] UN Meeting

Mon Oct 10 04:09:15 PDT 2016

I am just an ordinary OSGeo member but would like to say that we need to work to empower all our committees and volunteers.

So +1 to Anita's suggestion.

Thank you to everyone who is working for OSGeo. 

Best wishes,

Suchith

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From: Board <board-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> on behalf of Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at>
Sent: 10 October 2016 11:56 AM
To: Massimiliano Cannata
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Subject: Re: [Board] UN Meeting

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<mailto: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<mailto: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.
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Steven

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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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