[Portugal] Fwd: [Local-chapters] Follow up discussion: OSGeo Europe BOF [3]

[Mário Rui Gomes]

Victor
Óptima ideia.
E o Email sobre patrocinadores do nosso evento?
Um abraço.
MRG
Em 25/07/2015 14:50, "Victor Ferreira" <victor.mota.ferreira  gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Email sobre conversa no sentido de criar um capítulo europeu da OSGEO para
> promover FOSS4Ge e para pensar em candidaturas ao H2020 por exemplo.
> Boa leitura,
> VIctor
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Dirk Frigne <dirk.frigne  geosparc.com>
> Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:21 PM
> Subject: [Local-chapters] Follow up discussion: OSGeo Europe BOF [3]
> To:
> Cc: local-chapters  lists.osgeo.org
>
>
> Dear list,
>
> I will shortly present myself as a new member of this list as the OSGeo
> contact person for the Belgian Local Chapter that was formed just a
> couple of weeks ago [1]. My name is Dirk Frigne and I am a member of
> OSGeo since 2007. More information can be found here[2]
>
> Wednesday, July 15 we had a BOF on the foss4ge conference in Como with
> the major topic OSGeo Europe. [3]
> There seemed to be a huge interest in the topic as there where more then
> 20 people attending the meeting (of which only 10 subscribed to the wiki).
>
> The main topic discussed was if there is a need for a European legal
> entity representing OSGeo for European specific needs.
>
> The first question was if this should fit with the bylaws of the OSGeo
> foundation.
> Apparently, from a perspective of the OSGeo foundation, the European
> Legal structure could be seen as a local chapter, a body of the foundation.
>
> There are at least a couple of good reasons to start such an entity:
> - To operate an annual FOSS4Ge Conference, possibly in cooperation with
> related efforts such as the organising local Chapter.
> - To maintain the relationship with European bodies and European
> oriented organisations such as OGC-Europe, JRC, European commission,
> European member organisations active in environment, eHealth, open data,
> open knowledge, European industry, European startups, (not limited list)
> - To act as a body that will partner for H2020 projects, together with
> other relevant players such as OGC, Geo4all, SMESpire,  and others
> - To act as a reference implementation partner for INSPIRE related
> communities, such as ELF, ARENA, Digital Agenda, EUROGeo,
> Agile,[not limited]
> - To help the specific European SME industry developing business models
> for open source.
>
> Last year in Bremen, the topic was also discussed, but after the
> conference the initiatives moved to a silent dead. I did a lot of
> thinking about the topic, and prepared a presentation [4]
> which I gave on the INSPIRE conference, and the derived presentation [5]
> adapted for the OSGeo audience.
>
> During the meeting we decided to discuss this topic in the local chapter
> list, which is the purpose of this mail.
>
> After the BOF I had te opportunity to talk to a lot of people in a
> personal way about this topic, and many encouraged me to go on with the
> initiative. I didn't had the chance to talk to everybody, so I am
> looking forward to your reactions to further refine our idea's.
>
> I would like to propose following timing for the discussion:
> - any reactions on this thread are welcome until end of July.
> - As I will be in holidays the first two weeks of August, please give me
> these two weeks, where I will often be offline to make a summary of the
> discussion so we can propose a European Local Chapter to the board for
> acceptance. I will then post the consensus in this list for approval to
> hand it over to the board.
> - I will also propose to create a OSGeo-Europe list (or we can use the
> Foss4G-Europe list for that).
>
> Please consult the members of your local chapters through the diverse
> lists, so we have a broad platform to discuss.
>
> Looking forward to your feedback and hope to speak to you personal on a
> next foss4g conference.
>
> Regards,
> D.
>
>
> [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Dirkf
> [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Belgium
> [3]
>
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G_Europe_2015_BirdsOfAFeather#OSGeo_Europe_BOF
> [4]
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/DirkFrigne/2015-inspire-conference-tactical-weapon-for-industrial-growth-final
> [5]
>
> http://www.slideshare.net/DirkFrigne/2015-foss4-g-europe-tactical-weapon-for-industrial-growth-slideshare
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your comments!
> --
> Yours sincerely,
>
>
> ir. Dirk Frigne
> CEO
>
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