[UN] Budget 2017 UN committee

Thu Jan 5 06:46:20 PST 2017

Dear All

First of All I wish you a Happy 2017!

I have also some news about the OSGeo 2017 budget of our Committe.

The Board approved 6000 dollars (3000 for participation to 2 international meetings of the UN OpenGIS initiative for 1 person (note that GeoForAll participation is intended to be funded by geo4all) and 3000 for the  OSGeo-UN Hackathon).

I understand that it  is less with respect to what we asked, but it is more coherent with the support to the other proposed initiatives (code sprints, hackathons and so on) and with the global OSGeo budget. It means that we will organize the hackathon immediately before or after a conference in such a way to reduce costs and meanwhile all of us are committed in finding other sponsors.

Please, if there are people interested in organizing that Hackathon, show you up in such a way to organize a meeting.

Many thanks and best regards,

Maria

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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Professor of GIS and Remote Sensing
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)" http://www2.isprs.org/commissions/comm4/wg4.html, Board of Directors of OSGeo; GeoForAll Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET Advisory Board

Sol Katz Award 2015

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Da: UN <un-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
Inviato: giovedì 15 dicembre 2016 14.06
A: un at lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: Re: [UN] Budget 2017 UN committee

Hi Maxi,

I support sending an OSGeo representative to 2 meetings of the OpenGIS
initiative, for 2017.

I would also suggest that we request funding to host an "OSGeo-UN
Hackathon" event in 2017, where we would host a 3 day coding event and
invite lead developers from several OSGeo projects, to work specifically
with UN partners face-to-face over 3 days.  OSGeo representatives would
be funded for their time (yes, this is bold and shocking, but, this is
long overdue).  The amount we would request would be approximately 20k
(not the usual "3k to slide under the OSGeo Board radar", but an amount
that says to the OSGeo Board "we are serious about helping the UN and
its member nations leverage Open, and OSGeo is ready to step into that
role and invest".

The actual event would be a combination of workshops and hackathons,
depending on the needs of the UN partners.  As we found out in the
initial meetings with the UN GIS team in Seoul in 2015, various UN
partners are already examining OSGeo software, and this event in 2017
would really gets things moving in this "relationship".

If we wait for the UN to make all of this happen (and wait for their
funding) well it likely will never happen; so let us, OSGeo, give this
UN relationship a big kick into high gear, for 2017.

PS. yes I would volunteer to lead this event, create a wiki page with
more details, budget, research venues, set up program, gather OSGeo
experts, etc.

-jeff

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

On 2016-12-14 11:11 AM, Massimiliano Cannata wrote:
> dear UN committee members,
> i was asked to draft a budget for 2017 to be submitted to the OSGeo
> board for approval.
>
> This budget is intended to cover the costs of the committee operations.
>
> My proposal is:
>
> - participation to 2 international meeting of the Open GIS initiative by
> UN whose OSGeo is part per 1 person ~ 3'000 USD (note that geo4all
> participation is intented to be funded by geo4all).
>
> With this mail I'm asking your inputs /comments / feedback before
> forwarding the request to the board.
>
> My plan is to submit it on Sunday if no relevant discussions are raised
> by that time.
>
>
> Regards,
> Maxi
>
>
>
>
> --
> *Massimiliano Cannata*
>
> Professore SUPSI in ingegneria Geomatica
>
> Responsabile settore Geomatica
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>
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>
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