OSGeo contact to MPG: Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities

[Arnulf Christl]

Hi All,
I would like to contact the initiators of the "Berlin Declaration on 
Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities". In your 
opinion, would this be a task that the VisCom team 
(https://visibilitycommittee.osgeo.org/) could do on its own, should 
VisCom check back with the board? Hoe does this work?

How could we word a letter of interest to the mgp (Max 
Planck-Gesellschaft, not Michael Gerlek... :-).

This does not have to be decided in a hurry, take your time. Again: This 
would be great for collaborative editing in the Wiki - but in my opinion 
it possibly should not be that public right from the start.

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mailto:praesident at gv.mpg.de

Dear Praesident, (ok, this should be more formal)
as a representative of the newly formed Open Source Geospatial 
Foundation (http://www.osgeo.org) I wanted to acquaint you with our 
initiative. We are aware of and support the "Berlin Declaration on Open 
Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities" 
(http://oa.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/berlindeclaration.html).

As active promoters of free access to Public Geospatial Data we are 
interested in linking and interacting with your initiative. If this 
interest is mutual, we would like to fathom possibilities of further 
cooperation. Please reply to this adress or contact xy at osgeo.org 
directly for further discussion.

Find some preliminary work in the Wiki: 
http://www.fossgis.de/osgeo/index.php/Public_Geospatial_Data_Project)
Please observe that any content in this Wiki is regarded as 'work in 
progress' and does not represent official and stable OSGeo policy.

Best regards,
Arnulf Christl (OSGeo BoD)