[Board] Invitation to join Open Invention Network

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

The procedure for joining OIN has been completed
I attach the agreement which is also stored in
OSGeo-intl dropbox folder  under agreement_mou
subfolder.

Can someone file a news item for the OSGeo website.

Best

Venka

On 2016/10/21 23:41, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I forward my mail interaction with Frank Casey about
> joining Open Invention Network (OIN).
>
> I will start a thread on loomio about joining OIN.
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
> On 10/21/2016 9:42 PM, Frank Casey wrote:
>> Hello Venkatesh,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your note.  I hope my response will make your 
>> Board
>> comfortable with joining the Open Invention Network.
>>
>> 1)  You just need to enroll on the web
>>
>> 2)  The only obligation you incur by joining is to agree not to 
>> assert any
>> patents that you have that read on the "Linux System" against other Open
>> Invention Network participants...you grant free licenses to these 
>> patents
>> to the others.  No other paperwork or reports are required.
>>
>> 3)  OIN is fully funded by IBM, Red Hat, Sony, NEC, Philips, SUSE, 
>> Toyota,
>> and Google.  You will not pay anything.
>>
>> I hope you find these responses helpful and wish you luck with the 
>> Board.
>>
>> All the best,
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 2:41 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan <
>> raghavan at media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Frank,
>>>
>>> Sorry for the delay in the response from our side.
>>> I think, joining the OIN would be quite useful
>>> and relevant for the OSGeo Community.
>>>
>>> A few questions,
>>>
>>> 1) Do we just fill in the from on the web to join or
>>> are there any other procedural steps?
>>>
>>> 2) As members of OIN, what is expected of OSGeo Foundation?
>>> Do we need to submit reports annually or are there any
>>> other kind of official commitments that we would periodically
>>> need to fulfill?
>>>
>>> 3) Is there any document available on members roles and 
>>> responsibilities?
>>>
>>> 3) You write that there is "*still* no cost to join or maintain
>>> membership in OIN". Do we need to anticipate some costs
>>> for the future?
>>>
>>> I would appreciate your answer and take this up with the OSGeo
>>> board after getting your response.
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Venka
>>> -----------
>>> Prof. Venkatesh Raghavan
>>> President, OSGeo Foundation
>>>
>>> On 10/7/2016 6:21 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 5, 2016, 16:14 Frank Casey 
>>> <fcasey at openinventionnetwork.com> <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> 
>>> <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 
>>> athttp://www.openinventionnetwork.com and read an article 
>>> athttp://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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