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

[Paolo Cavallini]

thanks Jeff for clarifying.

I'm available to work on this if that helps.

All the best.


Il 09/15/2018 05:50 PM, Jeff McKenna ha scritto:
> 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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