[Board] GeoNode as participant in a german research call (NFDI4Agriculture), formal signing process unclear

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Sorry Florian,

I realized that the request is immediate, I will follow up on chat with 
the board members and make a motion on Loomio for urgent approval.

Best,
Angelos

On 8/13/20 11:40 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> Dear Florian,
>
> Thank you for sending the request.
> This topic has been added to the board agenda for Aug 31th.
>
> Best regards,
> Angelos
>
> On 8/13/20 10:20 AM, Florian Hoedt wrote:
>> Dear Board,
>>
>> -- the first mail yesterday was not properly sent to the board list, 
>> sorry --
>>
>> We as GeoNode PSC have discussed (see below) our participation in a 
>> german research call called 'national research infrastructure' in the 
>> consortium NFDI4Agriculture (https://www.nfdi4agri.de/index.php/en/). 
>> The PSC voted to participate in the call and the consortium. Our idea 
>> is to foster synergies with german research sites for using GeoNode 
>> as spatial research data hub and working on better interoperability 
>> in the scientific context.
>>
>> To do so we would have to sign a letter of committment [LOC], which 
>> states the general motiviation to work together with the 
>> NFDI4Agriculture consortium and broadly describe the actions which 
>> will be performed by GeoNode (like discussing proposals for technical 
>> developments, supporting in gitter / the mailing lists, reviewing 
>> pull requests, etcpp). Since GeoNode PSC and the project itself is 
>> not a legal entity we can not sign any LOC.
>>
>> But OSGeo is a legal entity and we would like to kindly ask, if OSGeo 
>> would sign LOC and state that GeoNode as OSGeo project will activly 
>> participate in the consortium NFDI4Agriculture. OSGeo does already 
>> work in the scientific domain, for example with the Open GeoScience 
>> group. I think participating in the consortium is a good idea to 
>> strenghten this part of OSGeo, since the general idea and vision of 
>> the national research data infrastructure and Open GeoScience does 
>> align very well. >> If OSGeo itself << wants to be prominently listed 
>> as participant in the call, we would need >> your informal approval 
>> << until today (!) evening.  I am very sorry for that harsh deadline. 
>> The signed LOC itself must be sent to the consortiums administration 
>> group until mid of september (15.09).
>>
>> If there are any questions regarding the LOC and the participation, 
>> please do not hesitate to ask me for clarifications.
>>
>> DISCLAIMER: I am part of the GeoNode PSC AND of the NFDI4Agriculture 
>> call consortium as co-applicant.
>>
>> yours,
>> Florian
>
>


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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
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