[Board] MOU with AGU

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Peter,

Glad to hear that AGU is also keen on this relationship.  Good luck next 
week in the FAIR kickoff meeting in DC, keep us posted, please pass on 
our enthusiasm in person.

As Helena mentioned, please also mention that Václav Petras (Charter 
member) will be representing OSGeo at the fall AGM meeting next month 
which is another good face-to-face opportunity to discuss this.

Regarding legal stuff, well as you know the OSGeo Board is in a sort of 
transition now, setting up the executive Board (President, VPs), so keep 
this in mind in your timeline for this.  In terms of actual legal 
issues, the Board has retained the law firm "Atkin & Associates" 
(specifically David Atkin) in the past, out of Oregon I think, for any 
legal advice (http://www.nonprofit-support.com/).

Thank you Peter and good luck next week!

-jeff



On 2017-11-10 7:24 AM, "Peter Löwe" wrote:
> Hi Jeff, hi board,
> 
> thanks for the positive feedback.
> AGU appears to be very interested in this by now, too.
> Thanks also for inviting me to the board meeting on November 21:  I will gladly report on the outcome of next weeks meeting with AGU in DC.
> 
> BTW, do we have a point of contact within OSGeo regarding "legalese" matters ?
> 
> best,
> Peter
> 
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
> 
> Subject: Re: [Board] Opportunity: American Geophysical Union:
> Implementation of FAIR principles -> MOU by AGU and OSGeo ?
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> Hi Peter,
> 
> Thanks for sharing your thoughts, and I agree that this relationship
> with the AGU is very important for the OSGeo community - I have seen the
> great work that you, Madi, Helli, Markus, Maxi, and others do promoting
> OSGeo to the EGU scientific community. Would you be willing to attend
> the next OSGeo Board meeting on IRC on the 21st November[1] to discuss
> the possible next steps with the OSGeo Board? I can help you draft the
> MoU, but let's bring this to the entire Board for a discussion first and
> plan the steps together (if the Board decides to move forward with the
> relationship).
> 
> [1]
> https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2017&month=11&day=21&hour=14&min=0&sec=0%2017.00UTC
> 
> -jeff
> 
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