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

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Jeff,

thanks for this. I'm not saying Osgeo should manage this, it just seems
natural that it is the umbrella organization who participates. Of course
we (QGIS project) ara available and interested to cooperate.

If you are not interested, please let us know, and we'll evaluate how to
proceed.

Thanks again.

All the best.


Il 09/11/2018 06:21 PM, Jeff McKenna ha scritto:
> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>
>> From:     Maria Antonia Brovelli <maria.brovelli at polimi.it>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear All, I want to draw your attention to two initiatives that in my
>> opinion could be worth for the industry component of OSGeo.
>>
>> 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).
>>
>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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