[OSGeo-UK] Discuss Digest, Vol 114, Issue 14

Tue Jun 21 09:31:54 PDT 2016

+1

On 21 June 2016 at 17:01, Sam Franklin <mr.samfranklin at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1
>
> ---
> Sam Franklin
> t | @SamRFranklin <https://twitter.com/SamRFranklin>
>
> On 21 June 2016 at 10:47, Steven Feldman <shfeldman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> OSGeo:uk is a new chapter that doesn’t yet have a formal voting structure
>> (we discussed this at our AGM last week and will implement over the next
>> month or so). I suggest that in the meantime those who are subscribed to
>> this list respond to this mail with +1 or 0 or -1 and we can take the
>> summary of that as the view of OSGeo:UK (it would not bind us to
>> subsequently affiliating or whatever will be proposed by OSGeo-EU).
>>
>> If you strongly disagree with this way of polling the UK chapter feel
>> free to suggest an alternative.
>>
>> Personally I am very supportive of this idea. I think our loose
>> confederation of SMEs in the European FOSS4G community needs to have a way
>> of presenting to major governmental and pan-governmental bodies. My vote is
>> +1
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> ______
>> Steven
>>
>>
>> On 20 Jun 2016, at 20:00, discuss-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
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>> Today's Topics:
>>
>>   1. FOSS4G-EU Local Chapter (till.adams at foss4g2016.org)
>>   2. Re: FOSS4G-EU Local Chapter (Ian Turton)
>>
>> *From: *till.adams at foss4g2016.org
>> *Subject: **[OSGeo-UK] FOSS4G-EU Local Chapter*
>> *Date: *20 June 2016 at 13:17:58 BST
>> *To: *Finland at lists.osgeo.org, Gfoss at lists.gfoss.it,
>> fossgis-talk-liste at fossgis.de, madrid at lists.osgeo.org,
>> ireland at lists.osgeo.org, greek at lists.osgeo.org, belgium at lists.osgeo.org,
>> freegeocz at fsv.cvut.cz, francophone at lists.osgeo.org,
>> barcelona at lists.osgeo.org, board-nl at lists.osgeo.org,
>> belgium at lists.osgeo.org, croatia at lists.osgeo.org, danmark at lists.osgeo.org,
>> portugal at lists.osgeo.org, osgeo-russia at lists.osgeo.org,
>> scotland at lists.osgeo.org, spanish at lists.osgeo.org, uk at lists.osgeo.org
>> *Cc: *marcvloemans1 at gmail.com, gert-jan at osgeo.nl,
>> dirk.frigne at geosparc.com
>>
>>
>> Dear FOSS4G local chapters,
>>
>> (if I missed any local chapter, please feel free to spread the word also
>> to other European chapters.)
>>
>> Marc Vloemans, Gert-Jan van der Wejden (both from local dutch chapter),
>> Dirk Frigne (from local chapter Belgium and OSGeo board member) and
>> me-myself-and-I, Till Adams (from german speaking local chapter FOSSGIS
>> e.V.) met end of May after Geospatial World Forum in Rotterdam. We
>> discussed about the potential and the need to have an European local OSGeo
>> chapter, which is not "above" the local chapters and which does not
>> overtake tasks, that are already well covered by OSGeo.org, but that
>> overtakes different, special European-related tasks and challenges, that
>> aren't already covered by local chapters or by OSGeo.org itself.
>>
>> Please find our ideas and plans in the OSGeo WIKI [1].
>>
>> Before sending a formal proposal to the board to ask for recognition for
>> the Local EU chapter, we'd like you to comment on our ideas with the goal
>> to make an even better OSGeo for all of us. Please comment directly on the
>> page in the WIKI, so you can be sure to share your thoughts with everybody.
>>
>> Because we want to go forward with that soon, please consider on
>> commenting ASAP as we see FOSS4G in Bonn as a good opportunity to establish
>> the local EU chapter.
>>
>>
>> Hope to see you all in Bonn [2] & with kind regards,
>>
>> Till
>>
>>
>>
>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe
>> [2] http://2016.foss4g.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *Ian Turton <ijturton at gmail.com>
>> *Subject: **Re: [OSGeo-UK] FOSS4G-EU Local Chapter*
>> *Date: *20 June 2016 at 17:33:45 BST
>> *To: *till.adams at foss4g2016.org, "uk at lists.osgeo.org" <uk at lists.osgeo.org
>> >
>>
>>
>> Maybe the UK group should hold off replying until Friday :-)
>>
>> Ian
>>
>> On 20 June 2016 at 13:17, <till.adams at foss4g2016.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear FOSS4G local chapters,
>>>
>>> (if I missed any local chapter, please feel free to spread the word also
>>> to other European chapters.)
>>>
>>> Marc Vloemans, Gert-Jan van der Wejden (both from local dutch chapter),
>>> Dirk Frigne (from local chapter Belgium and OSGeo board member) and
>>> me-myself-and-I, Till Adams (from german speaking local chapter FOSSGIS
>>> e.V.) met end of May after Geospatial World Forum in Rotterdam. We
>>> discussed about the potential and the need to have an European local OSGeo
>>> chapter, which is not "above" the local chapters and which does not
>>> overtake tasks, that are already well covered by OSGeo.org, but that
>>> overtakes different, special European-related tasks and challenges, that
>>> aren't already covered by local chapters or by OSGeo.org itself.
>>>
>>> Please find our ideas and plans in the OSGeo WIKI [1].
>>>
>>> Before sending a formal proposal to the board to ask for recognition for
>>> the Local EU chapter, we'd like you to comment on our ideas with the goal
>>> to make an even better OSGeo for all of us. Please comment directly on the
>>> page in the WIKI, so you can be sure to share your thoughts with everybody.
>>>
>>> Because we want to go forward with that soon, please consider on
>>> commenting ASAP as we see FOSS4G in Bonn as a good opportunity to establish
>>> the local EU chapter.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hope to see you all in Bonn [2] & with kind regards,
>>>
>>> Till
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe
>>> [2] http://2016.foss4g.org
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Ian Turton
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