[Board] OS Geo and UNIGIS Intl. Assoc.

[Jeroen Ticheler]

Dear Wallentin,

We briefly discussed renewing our MoU and reactivating our collaboration at
today's board meeting. It would be nice to schedule a meeting to exchange
ideas for this. Do you have opportunities in the week of 13 April?

Kind regards,
Jeroen


On Mon, 23 Mar 2026 at 12:41, Wallentin Gudrun <Gudrun.Wallentin at plus.ac.at>
wrote:

> Dear Jeroen,
>
> I am writing on behalf of the UNIGIS International Association (
> https://unigis.net/).
>
> As you may be aware, there has been a Memorandum of Understanding between
> OS Geo and UNIGIS. It is dating from Nov. 2019 and it was in force until
> end of 2024 (see attachment).
>
>
>
> The new UNIGIS Board (including myself) has been elected after that, so I
> am not entirely sure, how actively we have “lived” the MoU, but in our last
> General Meeting, the 7 University partners of the UNIGIS International
> Association have unanimously agreed that we want to seek a more active
> collaboration with OS Geo and the FOSS-GIS community. So, we would like to
> continue the MoU and seek ways for collaboration - as a start, I have just
> filed a proposal for a talk at FOSS4G Europe in Romania this year.
>
>
>
> My question is, whether OS Geo is interested in renewing the MoU and to
> intensify our collaboration? I could for example envisage active presence
> at the FOSS4G conferences, joint module development, webinars or job and
> internship information to our students. Happy to brainstorm these ideas
> further!
>
>
>
> With best regards from Salzburg,
>
> Gudrun
>
>
>
>
>
> Assoc.-Prof. Dr. Gudrun Wallentin
>
> UNIGIS Salzburg Program Director
>
> Chair of the UNIGIS International Association
>
> Department of Geoinformatics – Z_GIS
>
> Schillerstraße 30 | 5020 Salzburg | Austria
>
> Tel.: +43/(0)662/8044 - 7514
>
> > www.plus.ac.at/wallentin
> <https://www.plus.ac.at/zgis/department/team/wallentin/?lang=en>
>
>
>
>
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