[Board] Argentina local Chapter

Fri Dec 21 10:59:00 PST 2018

Malena,

It is great to hear about how active and effective you appear to have 
been in South America. I suggest that in order to help the board answer 
you question about funding, you also provide information to help them 
assess the "Return on Investment".

What do you need funding for which would be difficult to obtain 
elsewhere? (Being specific and creating a budget would help).

What value would you gain which is enabled by this funding?

How much money are you asking for?

Will it be a once off cost, or ongoing? Could you see yourselves as 
becoming self sustaining?

Of note, I am not on the board, and am not speaking on the board's 
behalf. I am just passing on a suggestion.

Warm regards, Cameron

On 22/12/18 4:55 am, Malena Libman wrote:
>
> Dear OSGeo board,
>
>
> First of all we want to congratulate you for the results of the 
> elections, wish a warm welcome the new members and a welcome back the 
> re-elected.
>
>
> It’s with much joy that we are writing to tell you that the Spanish 
> speaking micro chapter Geoinquiet at s Argentina has been legally 
> constituted as “GeoLibres” (Geo Free) on Friday  14th December 2018. 
> This is a legal framework to support Geoinquiet at s Argentina and other 
> communities that wish to join in the future.
>
>
> This is why we want to officially express our intention to be the 
> Argentina local chapter of OSGeo, where Malena Libman, as president of 
> the NGO, will be the one who will liaise with the OSGEO board.
>
>
> For those who do not know us yet, Geoinquiet at s Argentina has been 
> working since 2012, mirroring the initiative that began in Spain with 
> Geoinquietos, with informal meetings to talk about free geomatics. In 
> 2013 we organized the first local version of FOSS4G (as Geoinquietos 
> Buenos Aires), this event was held at the National Geographic 
> Institute, gathering more than 200 people in workshops, presentations, 
> projects and exhibitions of cases of free tools usage applied to 
> geomatics; including a day dedicated to OpenStreetMap. Since then, 
> both communities are in continuous collaboration and participation in 
> these events.
>
>
> The next year, part of the team that organized the FOSS4G in 2013 
> prepared the first State of the Map conference in Latin America, in 
> Buenos Aires. More than 170 participants attended the event, which was 
> a success given that in Latin America the OSM communities had never 
> held an international event of this kind.
>
>
> In SOTM 2014, the organizers and representatives of other South 
> American countries proposed and debated the creation of an annual 
> regional conference called State of the Map Latam that was held for 
> the first time in Santiago, Chile in 2015.
>
>
> In 2016 Geoinquietos Argentina hold the FOSS4G conference again with a 
> greater focus on the development of workshops and debate activities by 
> including a whole day dedicated to communities and organizations 
> related to the use and creation of open geographic data.
>
>
> In 2017, Geoinquietos Argentina and members of the OpenStreetMap 
> community joined forces to put together the two events and hold FOSS4G 
> + SOTM Argentina. It was the longest event so far, with one day of 
> activities for universities, two days of workshops, two days of 
> lectures and talks; ending in a hackathon/mapathon.
>
>
> In 2018, the OpenStreetMap community organized the SOTM Latam, and we 
> are organizing the next FOSS4G Argentina 2019 for the month of April. 
> Everyone is invited!
>
>
> The objectives of Geonquiet at s Argentina are:
>
>  *
>
>     Create a space for articulation of the communities linked to free
>     geomatics and open geospatial data of Argentina, with
>     international initiatives on these same topics,
>
>  *
>
>     Promote collaborative production and free access to open source
>     geospatial information in Argentina.
>
>  *
>
>     Encourage the implementation of open standards and
>     interoperability applied to geospatial information technologies in
>     Argentina.
>
>  *
>
>     Promote the exchange of knowledge and sharing of good practices
>     related to free geomatics technologies through activities of
>     communities in Argentina;
>
>
> Mission: generate a space where the creation and use of geographic 
> data of free access is promoted, the adoption of geographic standards, 
> the use of free and open source software for the development of 
> geospatial information capabilities, through actions that promote and 
> strengthen the geomatics community in Argentina.
>
>
> Vision: strengthen the geomatics community through these spaces. We 
> adopt proactivity as a methodology in our community, technology as the 
> means and the concept openness as a base of fundamentals.
>
>
> These are some of the members who are active today:
>
>  *
>
>     Gabriela Ackermann
>
>  *
>
>     Cristian Zamar
>
>  *
>
>     Louca Lerch
>
>  *
>
>     Carlos Nelson Jimenez
>
>  *
>
>     Luis Piccinali
>
>  *
>
>     Vladimiro Bellini
>
>  *
>
>     Mauricio Márquez Goa
>
>  *
>
>     Martin Bustos
>
>  *
>
>     Priscilla
>
>  *
>
>     Nestor Barrionuevo
>
>  *
>
>     Federico Gazaba
>
>  *
>
>     Lucia
>
>  *
>
>     Gabriel Asato
>
>  *
>
>     Ivan
>
>  *
>
>     Gonzalo Varela
>
>  *
>
>     Tito Areco
>
>  *
>
>     Nico Setula
>
>  *
>
>     Luz Fuentes
>
>  *
>
>     Sol Represa
>
>  *
>
>     Emiliano Guipponi
>
>  *
>
>     Fernando Gimenez
>
>  *
>
>     Renzo Polo
>
>  *
>
>     Lar
>
>  *
>
>     Florencia Raymundo
>
>  *
>
>     Juan Ra
>
>  *
>
>     Hernán Alperin
>
>  *
>
>     Florencia
>
>  *
>
>     Andrea Torres
>
>  *
>
>     Valeria Meza
>
>  *
>
>     Andres Juarez
>
>  *
>
>     Gustavo Daniel González
>
>  *
>
>     Fabricio Ariztigueta
>
>  *
>
>     Agustín
>
>  *
>
>     Juan Manuel Calabia
>
>  *
>
>     César Saravia
>
>  *
>
>     Matías Gaute
>
>  *
>
>     Agustin Ganoves
>
>  *
>
>     Joaquin Bacigalupo
>
>  *
>
>     Alejandro Leone
>
>  *
>
>     Gerardo Ariel Cabezas
>
>  *
>
>     Luciani Bolcatto
>
>  *
>
>     Atahualpa Ayala
>
>  *
>
>     Adrián
>
>  *
>
>     Eve Figueroa
>
>  *
>
>     Gus Lopez
>
>  *
>
>     Franco Scagnetti
>
>  *
>
>     Carlos Salinas
>
>  *
>
>     Arnaldo Meza
>
>  *
>
>     Guillermo Dannenberg
>
>  *
>
>     Ricardo Pacheco
>
>
> We would also like to ask the board if there is any way we can get 
> some seed money from OSGeo, to pay some of the expenses for the 
> NGO while we managed to start raising funds in order to work, as you 
> did with the Europe chapter.
>
> Wishing you have a great end of the year and happy holidays, hoping 
> next year brings many more free and open source geogoodness.
>
> Cheers
>
> Malena
>
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Cameron Shorter
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