[Board] MDM2024: Collaboration proposal

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Dear Kostas,

Thank you for reaching out.
Your proposal is added to the next board meeting agenda and we will 
provide feedback at the end of the month.

Regards,
Angelos

On 4/8/24 18:18, tserpes--- via Board wrote:
> Dear OSGeo Board Members,
>
> We are reaching out with the capacity of the organizers of the 25th Conference
> on Mobile Data Management (MDM), an international conference organized yearly
> and supported by IEEE.
>
> This year, one of our high priority objectives is to enlarge the conference's
> community and further improve the prestige of the event among relevant
> researchers and practitioners.
>
> To this end, we are reaching out to established communities that we believe that
> our conference overlaps with in terms of fields of interest. In fact, MDM
> researchers are using, developing and promoting OSS for mobile data analysis and
> management, more often than not for applications with a geographical-based
> element. Furthermore, the organizer of this year's conference and his team are
> the creators and supporters of one OSGeo project, namely MobilityDB.
>
> Based on the above, we seek a long-term collaboration between MDM and OSGeo. As
> a starting point, we would like to offer you one free registration for one day
> at the conference and a booth to promote OSGeo activities to the MDM community.
> In exchange we would like to use the OSGeo logo and link in the MDM sponsors
> area in the website; mention the MDM conference in the list of events in the
> OSGeo website; two references of the MDM conference on the OSGeo social media
> channels (e.g., LinkedIn and X).
>
> Please note that we would like to consider this as the exploration phase of a
> longer-term collaboration with OSGeo.
>
> We are willing to explore other options should this collaboration is of interest
> to you.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Kostas
>
>
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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/