[UN] Welcome and next steps

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Werner,

Thanks for your input on the task teams.  I should note that I don't 
pretend to have a huge amount of experience in dealing directly with the 
UN, so having experienced members such as yourself active on this 
committee is very important.  The UN-GIS team is very keen on having 
OSGeo at the table, so I think this new OSGeo committee is very 
important, to work together on this.

Regarding the first meeting, I have already put some ideas into the 
agenda, and please do edit that agenda and add your topics for 
discussion at http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee#Meetings

Until we agree on a chair and structure for the committee, I will chair 
that first meeting, and follow that agenda, so I don't see a problem if 
we have a lot of interested people speaking and sharing their ideas 
(remember this is text chat on IRC).  If this committee decides to use 
audio/voice conferencing for the following meeting that is fine.

-jeff




On 2015-11-05 5:28 PM, Werner Leyh wrote:
> Hi Jeff
>
> Sure, OSGEO is well suited for the first team, TT-1.
>
> It will not too difficult to organize a remote conference with 30 people ?!
> I don´t have a better idea, but,
> may be we could prepare some points beforehand ?
>
> Best
> Werner
>
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Thu, 11/5/15, Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
>
>   Subject: [UN] Welcome and next steps
>   To: un at lists.osgeo.org
>   Date: Thursday, November 5, 2015, 5:07 PM
>
>   Hello everyone,
>
>   We're already around 30 members on this mailing list, thank
>   you for your
>   interest in helping promote Open Source geospatial through
>   the UN.
>
>   Working Group
>   -------------
>
>   As mentioned on the Discuss list, we/OSGeo need to continue
>   with the
>   momentum created from meetings with the UN-GIS team at
>   FOSS4G Seoul.
>   OSGeo has been invited to become involved in the "UN-GGIM
>   Working Group
>   on Geospatial Information and Services for Disasters"
>   (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UN-GGIM-Working-Group).
>   I have already
>   committed to help represent OSGeo at the table for that
>   working group
>   (the list of global "member states" involved is very
>   impressive,
>   including of course the OGC, Esri, and other big
>   vendors).  But clearly
>   we need to organize our effort on our side.
>
>   Related to that working group on disasters: the working
>   group is forming
>   two task teams apparently:
>
>   Task Team 1 (TT-1) will work on this goal:
>
>   **
>   Engage with the main stakeholders and partners from the
>   humanitarian and
>   response communities as well as
>     the key governmental institutions involved in the
>   provision of
>   geospatial information and services to review,
>     complement and improve the draft framework and
>   flowcharts presented
>   during the UN-GGIM Committee of Experts in
>     August 2015;
>   **
>
>   Task Team 2 (TT-2) will work on this goal:
>
>   **
>   Conducted a review of frameworks, laws, rules and
>   regulations already
>   existing among the Member States
>     when it comes to the provision of geospatial
>   information and services
>   in times of disasters;
>   **
>
>   I believe OSGeo would be well suited for the first team,
>   TT-1, and
>   having OSGeo engage the humanitarian response groups and
>   governments
>   would help us promote OSGeo and Open Source geospatial to
>   these groups.
>
>   Actually I notice that I must submit a response to the
>   working group by
>   the end of tomorrow, on what "task team" OSGeo wants to
>   join.  Does
>   anyone object to us joining TT-1 ?
>
>   Next Meeting
>   ------------
>
>   I realize that we must formalize this new OSGeo UN Committee
>   (sorry for
>   pushing those specific questions on you already).
>   Let's plan to meet,
>   probably through IRC chat, for one hour to discuss this new
>   committee.
>
>   I propose we meet on 2015-11-17 at 16:00 UTC
>   (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2015&month=11&day=17&hour=16&min=0&sec=0)
>
>   in the #osgeo channel of IRC (on freenode.net).
>
>   I have placed the meeting details on the wiki as well
>   (http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/UnitedNations_Committee#Meetings).
>
>   Let me know if this plan works.  Thanks everyone,
>
>   -jeff
>
>
>   --
>   Jeff McKenna
>   President, OSGeo
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna
>
>
>