Victor Óptima ideia. E o Email sobre patrocinadores do nosso evento? Um abraço. MRG Em 25/07/2015 14:50, "Victor Ferreira" <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > Date: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 4:21 PM > Subject: [Local-chapters] Follow up discussion: OSGeo Europe BOF [3] > To: > Cc: [email protected] > > > 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 > > Geosparc n.v. > Brugsesteenweg 587 > B-9030 Ghent > Tel: +32 9 236 60 18 > GSM: +32 495 508 799 > > http://www.geomajas.org > http://www.geosparc.com > _______________________________________________ > Local-chapters mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/local-chapters > > > _______________________________________________ > Portugal mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/portugal >
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