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

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Paolo,

You have hinted offlist that I am not interested or OSGeo is not 
interested; I am a keynote at FOSS4G-Brazil right now, so I can't be as 
online as I should be, but, if I am not responding please do not take it 
that "OSGeo" is not interested in this initiative.  Like anything, it 
needs a champion/volunteer, to push and make sure that OSGeo is represented.

I think the next step is for someone to make a request on the OSGeo 
Board list to have the OSGeo foundation provide funding for a WGIC 
membership.  I personally think this is definitely within OSGeo's 
mission (to help make sure all OSGeo service providers are represented).

Best wishes from Sao Paulo aiport,

-jeff



On 2018-09-12 2:23 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> 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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