[Europe] [OSGeo-Discuss] Public money, public code campaign

Tue Jul 23 08:14:00 PDT 2019

Hi,

I think we can do both.

I mean: OSGeo should sign it (from my perspective) because it is
saying the same thing we say all the time: FLOSS is better :)

And at the same time, we can use the European Chapter to talk to the
FSF(E) if this is an european initiative to lobby and if we can join
forces. Or what is the purpose of this (I guess they are not going to
collect signatures and just wait for something to happen). Whatever
the FSFE has in mind, we are probably interested in it.

On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 5:11 PM Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Do we think this is something OSGeo should sign globally, or that
> individual chapters should decide to sign or not, as appropriate? I'm
> all for OSGeo signing it, as it's bigger (obviously) and would
> hopefully have more of an impact, but I guess others may have a
> different opinion...
>
> Jo
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 2:43 PM Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jody,
> >
> > thank you, just added to the agenda. Indeed I think this aims at being a global initiative rather than limited to Europe only. I have seen signatures from countries all over the world, as well as support from international organizations based outside Europe. I  think that OSGeo should support this campaign to remark that supports the principle, as in this phase no political action is entailed. Local chapters as well should sign and, if any, take further political actions when the times come. In fact I have forwarded this also to the Italian local chapter and I invite all the community to do the same to your own local chapters.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 3:01 PM Jody Garnett <jody.garnett at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> You are welcome to add it to the agenda to the the next board meeting (edit wiki page Board_Meeting_2019-07-29) , however we try and leave political influencing to local chapters - as it is more effective to have a local voice when talking to politicians. This looks like exactly the kind of initiative OSGeo Europe was formed to support :)
> >>
> >> Note despite the "eu" in the domain name the web page does not appear be limited to Europe. When signing it immediately asks which country you are from (no doubt to direct the support to the appropriate region).
> >> --
> >> Jody Garnett
> >>
> >>
> >> On Tue, 23 Jul 2019 at 05:21, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Dear members of the OSGeo community,
> >>>
> >>> I haven't seen this circulating already in our mailing list, if I just missed it, apologies.
> >>> This is to draw your attention to the following campaign: https://publiccode.eu/
> >>> I really would like to see OSGeo among the supporters of the open letter. Like-minded organizations like FOSSGIS, OpenStreetMap, etc have already signed it.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> Kind regards,
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Margherita Di Leo
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> >
> >
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