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

[Jeff McKenna]

How about we both as a team tackle this together, draft an email to the 
board, and sign it together (sort of like co-chairs of a new 
initiative).  It actually would be my honour to work together with you 
on this.   -jeff



On 2018-09-15 12:59 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> 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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