[VisCom] please sanity check a press release which mentions OSGeo

[Tyler Mitchell]

+1- Looks fine to me.

Tyler

On 29-Aug-06, at 3:44 AM, Jo Walsh wrote:

> dear VisCom,
>
> I wanted to give you a heads-up about this - a Public Geodata press
> release about the letter we're sending to the 25 European Environment
> Ministers who will decide the future of the European Spatial Data
> Infrastructure directive (INSPIRE).
>
> http://publicgeodata.org/Press_Release_Council_Letter
>
> It has quotes from myself and Markus in it, and mentions both of our
> OSGeo roles, and has an explanatory sentence taken from the notes at
> the bottom with a link to the osgeo site.
>
> The letter itself is very similar to the one that we sent to the
> Environment Committee in Parliament back in March, which Markus signed
> and the OSGeo Board approved a statement of support for - it just adds
> a paragraph describing what happened since and has questions at the
> end. This version is just coming from Public Geodata's 6000+
> supporters, under Benjamin Henrion's signature. So OSGeo's only
> involvement here is its directors being quoted in the Press Release.
>
> If anyone has issues with this I would appreciate it if you could let
> me know as soon as possible, because French and German translations
> are holding up on this version being "approved"; ideally they should
> be done tonight and this PR sent at 8am UTC+2 Wednesday; can hang on
> til Thursday if nesc but shouldn't leave it later.
>
> cheers,
>
>
> jo
>
>
>
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