[Board] UN Meeting

Mon Oct 10 10:22:51 PDT 2016

Unfortunately....micro management is already the case with the Conference committee with the result that Steven has announced his resignation. (And I do not see anyone backing down, say 'oops'. Only good hard working volunteers running away)

With all due respect: we have a mission and vision statement. And some disparate actions.
To have a strategy, something more is required, e.g. a 'market'/environment assessment, stakeholder analysis, an idea what audiences we cater to etc etc etc
And a strategy making process that is inclusive and not top-down.

Until that happens any budget allocation is subjective and not explicitly rooted in choices carried by the community. So either say we spend the money or not and either way live with the consequences.

OSGeo has grown into a mature organisation. Please, let's follow mature processes. And if those are not yet in existence, then please design those. 

Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans

> Op 10 okt. 2016 om 18:39 heeft Massimiliano Cannata <massimiliano.cannata at supsi.ch> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Dear Anita,
> thanks for your mail.
> 
> If i remember correctly in Bonn the board decided to make a call for 2017 budgetw to the committees, indicating the rules and the general availability.
> Budget voices should be detailed with respect to the OSGeo strategy and should constitute the OSGeo action plan indeed.
> 
> Best,
> Maxi
> 
> 2016-10-10 12:56 GMT+02:00 Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at>:
>> 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
>>>>> Message-ID:
>>>>> 	<CAMKYQEs6TyPbwiUYwyaXJHnzoBEXOnLZtUC8FmDMKEdLCp4-Kg at mail.gmail.com>
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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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>>> Responsabile settore Geomatica
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> Massimiliano Cannata
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> Responsabile settore Geomatica
> 
> Istituto scienze della Terra
> Dipartimento ambiente costruzione e design
> Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana
> Campus Trevano, CH - 6952 Canobbio
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