[UN] Welcome and next steps

[Jeff McKenna]

Hi Werner, all,

I just sent the following e-mail to Kyoung-Soo Eom, Chief of the Chief 
Geospatial Information Section of the UN-GGIM (United Nations Initiative 
on Global Geospatial Information Management), and the other working 
group partners:


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Hello Kyoung-Soo and colleagues,

The OSGeo foundation has no amendments to the TOR, and would like to 
participate in TT1, as we believe that engaging the humanitarian and 
response communities as well as government is very important for 
understanding the various needs.

Talk soon,

-jeff

-- 
Jeff McKenna
President, OSGeo
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jeff_McKenna

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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
>
>
>
>
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> 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
>
>