[Board] MDM2024: Collaboration proposal

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi,

This agenda item has been moved to the next meeting.

On 4/11/24 15:04, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> 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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>

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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
President
Open Source Geospatial Foundation
https://www.osgeo.org/member/angelos-tzotsos/