<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Forward since Charles is not a list member. FYI.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Charles Arthur <<a href="mailto:charles.arthur@gmail.com">charles.arthur@gmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">February 25, 2010 8:24:15 AM GMT+01:00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Bart van den Eijnden <<a href="mailto:bartvde@osgis.nl">bartvde@osgis.nl</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">OSGeo Discussions <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.osgeo.org">discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a>>, <a href="mailto:board@lists.osgeo.org">board@lists.osgeo.org</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OKF / OSGeo response to the consultation on opening Ordnance Survey data</b><br></span></div><br><div>Hi all.....<br><br>Just to say that the Free Our Data campaign will be publishing its response (and sending it in!) later today. It will appear on the Free Our Data blog (<a href="http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog">http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog</a>).<br><br>On 25 Feb 2010, at 06:31, Bart van den Eijnden wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Hi Jo,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I am +1 on supporting this initiative.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks to Schuyler for waking us up!<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Best regards,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Bart<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 22, 2010, at 4:26 PM, Jo Walsh wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">dear all@OSGeo,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">In sending this mail I'm following the protocol for letters of support coming from OSGeo:<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Protocol_for_requesting_letter_of_support</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">As you may have heard, there's a public consultation running in the UK<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">on options for open licensing national mapping data maintained by<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Ordnance Survey.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">There's been some discussion on the OSGeo-UK list and the Open Knowledge Foundation discuss list about a shared response to the consultation.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Here's the basically final draft - wording could change a little.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATJnv_t9ROmXZGN0Yjk3ampfMjBmM2ZqZnpkMg&hl=en">http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATJnv_t9ROmXZGN0Yjk3ampfMjBmM2ZqZnpkMg&hl=en</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The consultation outlines 3 options: 1) is Do Nothing, 2) is Open<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Everything, 3) is "staged release" of some products including postcode<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">geolocations (critical in the UK as a postal code is typically less than a city block in size) and adminstrative boundaries.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The response sets the case for a modified Option 2, all raw vector data.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Deadline for the response is March 17th, but it would be great to<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">publish it within the next week, so it can be circulated and perhaps<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">have a chance of influencing others' responses.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">This would be a shared response with the Open Knowledge Foundation.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">[[During a period of 3 days (72 hours) the OSGeo community will have an opportunity to respond with comments indicating why OSGeo should or should not explicitly support the project. If more information is required that should be stated during this review period.]]<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Still accepting edits, but don't plan to change the intent of the doc.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">be well all,<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">jo<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Discuss mailing list<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org">Discuss@lists.osgeo.org</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss</a><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br> best<br> Charles<br><br>--<br><br> my blog: <a href="http://www.charlesarthur.com/blog/">http://www.charlesarthur.com/blog/</a><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>on Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/charlesarthur">http://www.twitter.com/charlesarthur</a><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>