[Industry] Fwd: I: Two initiatives potentially worth your attention

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Paolo,

I have seen some offline messages about this from you, but in the 
interest of being open (and hopefully involving other OSGeo service 
providers) can you share your ideas and thoughts here on the Industry 
list?

You had mentioned that you think that the OSGeo Board should handle 
this, but I'd like to hear your reasons for this (and share your reasons 
here with the other service providers).

thanks,

-jeff




On 2018-09-07 2:19 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
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> From:     Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
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> Dear All, I want to draw your attention to two initiatives that in my 
> opinion could be worth for the industry component of OSGeo.
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> 1) I don't know if you are aware that, during the UN-GGIM Forum in New 
> York, Jack Dangermond announced the birth of WGIC, which is a Council of 
> industries (https://wgicouncil.org/) operating in the geospatial sector. 
>   At the moment there are no FOSS4G members and the members are all 
> giants of the geospatial world. I wonder if it could be worth your 
> presence there or you believe that it is useless or unfeasible. My 
> comment is that this is something that has to be discussed, 
> independently of the result of the discussion (if being involved or not; 
> if being involved as a single company or as a network of companies).
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> 2) ISPRS Congress 2020 (http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/). I was asked by 
> the Director of the Congress (Nicolas Paparotidis, who was the co-chair 
> of FOSS4G Europe last year with Gerald Fenoy) if we want to organize 
> within the exposition an area with open source booths. The cost for the 
> booths has to be discussed but he told me that we can agree about 
> something similar to the cost at FOSS4G. The advantage is in terms of 
> visibility. ISPRS Congress is held every 4 years and it gathers around 
> 3000 people, in the different fields of survey, photogrammetry, remote 
> sensing and GIS.
> Ordinary members of ISPRS are those that you can see in the list:
> http://www.isprs.org/members/ordinary.aspx
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> I'm happy to help to discuss with Nicolas, whom I have known very well, 
> but I want to have one person from the "OSGeo Industry Network" leading 
> this contact.
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> For the sake of completeness, we were requested also to organize a forum 
> about FOSS4 and luckily with respect to that I found volunteers of 
> GeoForAll willing to help the organization. But this is easier for me 
> and I can lead it without problems. On the opposite, the business part 
> with booths and exposition is not my speed and then I need to know
> 1) if there is an interest
> 2) who can be the reference for that part.
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> Thanks a lot for your attention.
> As I'm not in the mailing list (thanks Jeff for forwarding), in case you 
> want to send me comments, please add to your replies also my email contact.
> Best regards,
> Maria
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