[EU] Start of our activities

[María Arias de Reyna]

Hi,

I am a bit busy with the foss4g proposal, but you are right, we should
start moving.

Is there some specific reason to propose times inside the normal
office time? Shouldn't it be outside the working time? Or not... I
don't know if this is part of your job :)

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Till Adams <till.adams at fossgis.de> wrote:
> Dear OSGeo-EU members,
>
> I recently had the job to write a short message about formation of the
> Local Chapter OSGeo-EU (in german). While writing I of course had some
> glances on our WIKI pages and was also faced with our goals and missions
> [1].
>
> Now being approved by the board, I think we should at least start to
> think about our first activities, because just having the envelope is
> not listed on [1] ;-)
>
> Maybe a good point to start might be ...
>
> ... form a voted board (okay, we voted on the board, but not on posts,
> but we listed Dirk as our president, Marc as our treasurer and ?? as
> secretary). Maybe we think about a vice-president and so on.
>
> ... think about at least having a homepage as point of contact for
> finding us and being more representative than just a WIKI page
>
> ... introduce us to various European Organisations such as (list is
> mostly c&p from [1]):
>
> notably OSM
> JRC
> European projects
> FIWARE
> EUROGI
> SMESpire
> ESA
> [...]
>
> If, of course we have to add other organisations you might have in mind
> to the list, then have s.th. that introduces us better than an
> unformatted WIKI page (e.g. Introduction letter, regular homepage (s.a.)
> ?). Also we could offer to meet people from these organisations by
> opportunity - if we find volunteers among us to do that (writing this, I
> throw my hat in the ring)
>
> As said, all these are just my first quick ideas. I formed a doodle in
> order to schedule a meeting on IRC:
>
> https://doodle.com/poll/2ear9qdzphwf6f9k
>
> Feel free to add dates/times by sending them to me (can't find the handy
> admin-link in doodle any more...)
>
> Till
>
>
> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe#Mission_and_objectives
>
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