[Board] Renew mandate to act as admin for GSoC 2018 edition

Mon Jan 8 11:05:45 PST 2018

May I ask why you don't want to be a committee? I thought that would
simplify things, not complicate them. But maybe I am missing something.

Anyway, as Angelos says, there is no obligation here.

On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 7:55 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Madi,
>
> Please let's not rush into conclusions.
> GSoC has been listed under initiatives:
> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Budget_2018#OSGeo_Initiatives
> so there is no catch there, you can allocate the budget without any
> problems.
>
> Best,
> Angelos
>
> On 01/08/2018 08:35 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
>
>> Jody,
>>
>> Il giorno lun 8 gen 2018 alle 18:40 Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>> ha scritto:
>>
>> Started the electronic voting here:
>>> https://www.loomio.org/d/YPeGSkyx/gsoc-2018-participatio
>>> <https://www.loomio.org/d/YPeGSkyx/gsoc-2018-participation>n
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>
>> I during our 2018 budget we talked about setting this up as a committee
>>> with a slightly more general mandate.
>>>
>>> Honestly, I don’t get this. This idea of forming a committee seems to
>> return again and again when we have clearly stated that we are no
>> committee
>> and don’t intend to form one, thanks but no thanks.
>>
>> The net result was marking $3000 for the activity, and action item to
>> reach
>>
>>> out to this years volunteers.
>>>
>>> So if I understand correctly, we cannot be granted this budget as an
>> initiative but we must form a committe? Is this what the board decided
>> during the last meeting? Sorry if I hadn’t understood that. I’m glad that
>> we didn’t allocate these money yet, because at this condition we don’t
>> wish
>> to proceed.
>> So please let us know if we can prceed at least for gsoc application
>> without being a committee, as was done for 11 years now, or else if you
>> wish gsoc for OSGeo ends this year.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> --
>>> Jody Garnett
>>>
>>> On 8 January 2018 at 06:36, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Great! Please let me know if you need any additional info from our side
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 3:34 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We can make an electronic motivation to sort this out ahead of deadline.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 3:25 AM Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> That's great, thank you Angelos. Hope the board doesn't mind if for
>>>>>> practical reasons we are going ahead with the organization and
>>>>>> eventually
>>>>>> the submission of the application which is due by Jan 23. Keeping in
>>>>>> mind
>>>>>> that in the event of negative answer by the board, we can still
>>>>>> withdraw it
>>>>>> by that date.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jan 8, 2018 at 12:20 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <
>>>>>> gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> Dear Margherita,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you for the update.
>>>>>>> The next Board meeting is on Jan 17, I have added your request on the
>>>>>>> agenda:
>>>>>>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_2018-01-17
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>> Angelos
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 01/08/2018 12:14 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear members of the Board,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> GSoC 2018 has already opened the applications for open source
>>>>>>> organizations
>>>>>>> [1]. The timing this year makes things a bit hectic because as
>>>>>>> organization
>>>>>>> we are still focussed on GCI contest, which, by the way, is so far a
>>>>>>> great
>>>>>>> success! However, thanks for the great commitment of the members of
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> admin team and our mentors, we are still able to make shifts and
>>>>>>> work on
>>>>>>> the application for GSoC at the same time.
>>>>>>> So we are writing to the Board to update you about the composition
>>>>>>> of the
>>>>>>> admin team for 2018 edition and to formally receive mandate to act on
>>>>>>> behalf of OSGeo, applying for GSoC 2018. The members of the admin
>>>>>>> team for
>>>>>>> 2018 are:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Florin-Daniel Cioloboc,
>>>>>>> Werner Macho,
>>>>>>> Helmut Kudrnovsky,
>>>>>>> Jeff McKenna,
>>>>>>> Margherita Di Leo,
>>>>>>> Anne Ghisla  (as emeritus - will offer guidance and advise in case
>>>>>>> of need)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1] https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
>>>>>>> Charter Member
>>>>>>> Open Source Geospatial Foundationhttp://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Margherita Di Leo
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>>>>> --
>>>>> --
>>>>> Jody Garnett
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Margherita Di Leo
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>
>> Margherita Di Leo
>>
>>
> --
> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
> Charter Member
> Open Source Geospatial Foundation
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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