[Europe] OSGeo Europe meeting with Copernicus Programme - need your input

Thu Mar 22 09:21:43 PDT 2018

Hi all,

a rough idea is to convince the authorities (I believe this would be the Commission) to recognise in some way the OSGeo incubation/graduation processes. Ideally it would work as a labelling system for FOSS4G, like for instance the biologic food labelling system. 

The question is where would be the value for the Commission? As Dirk referenced before, OSGeo could perhaps become involved in H2020 (and beyond) grant development, or it could aid in curating software products resulting from research programmes. Think for instance of a mentorship process for research projects, where a OSGeo member would help researchers publishing and sharing their code and eventually build a community around their products.   

For discussion. Cheers.

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On March 22, 2018 10:10 AM, Dirk Frigne <dirk.frigne at geosparc.com> wrote:

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> 
> Luis,
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> Thank you for your input on the code sprint about this message.
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> As discussed, I look forward to your input.
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> On a short term to prepare for the meeting within 2 weeks. All input is
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> welcome. The more reactions we get, the better we can represent the
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> vision of OSGeo to the European Commission.
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> I am still here in Bonn until Saturday morning, so please don't hesitate
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> to talk to me to discuss.
> 
> G.
> 
> Dirk.
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> On 20-03-18 13:06, Dirk Frigne wrote:
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> > Dear list,
> > 
> > Greetings from basecamp - Bonn
> > 
> > Till Adams pointed me to an article [1] of the Copernicus programme [2].
> > 
> > In the article [1] following is written:
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> > "... – this community is organised under the umbrella of the Open Source
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> > Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo). This article is dedicated to all members
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> > of this community, the geospatial specialists, developers and
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> > enthusiasts, who help us unleash the full power of Copernicus, and shows
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> > the interaction between open data and Free and Open Source Software
> > 
> > (FOSS)."
> > 
> > As Till correctly reacted it is not immediately obvious who is the
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> > single point of contact between this programme and OSGeo, it was an
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> > opportunity to set up a meeting with a contact person of this programme.
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> > The meeting will take place in the offices in Brussels on 5 April. We
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> > prepared a draft agenda (below) and we invite you to discuss this agenda
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> > before we sent out the final agenda end this week.
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> > I will report back on the outcome of this meeting trough this list again.
> > 
> > 1 present OSGeo org
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> > 2 present OSGeo Europe
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> > 3 present the copernicus programme
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> > 4 discuss the role of ESA
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> > 5 what can OSGeo do for the copernicus programme
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> > 6 what can the copernicus program do for OSGeo
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> > I stay in basecamp until Friday, Looking forward to discuss it
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> > personaly, in group, or react on this mail.
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> > We think this is an important opportunity to present OSGeo and more in
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> > particular the European Local chapter to the European Commission and
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> > the opportunity to establish a contact with ESA.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for your reactions.
> > 
> > [1]
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> > https://mailchi.mp/copernicus/copernicus-and-the-free-open-source-software-community?e=fb710d0331
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> > [2] http://www.copernicus.eu/
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