Dear European charter members and OSGeo board, I would like to express my support for an OSGeo continental chapter and provide my point of view, that even if often considered uncomfortable, hope will bring discussion to improve.
I hope that before starting the chapter: * there is a clear and equitable rule for using the OSGeo name in European bids (see h2020 for example) since this may be a competitive advantage. It is totally unclear to me how OSGeo-EU would relate to H2020 projects for example: - Will it participate as a partner in any calls? - How the selection of supported project will be done? - How, in case of funding, allocated money will be distributed to members? * there is a defined and focused coordination with local chapters - synergies are needed to avoid duplication of efforts and adoption of a common action line. - ideally I'd like to see a hierarchical structure from international to continental and national level "chapters" but this is a matter for the board.. Here some proposed actions, that in my opinion would demonstrate the open principle of the OSGeo European Chapter community: * run a democratic election of the board representatives within 6 months from the inception * include all the OSGeo charter member that express their willing as "full" member (was charter member in OSGeo not sure how "full member" is in OSGeo-EU) Regards, Maxi Il 24 lug 2017 2:56 PM, "Dirk Frigne" <[email protected]> ha scritto: > Maria > > "is a member of a local chapter also a charter > > member of Eu Chapter? Or we will have a complex structure where local > > chapter members can be not Eu charter members but charter members of > > OSGeo as a whole?" > > No, as Jody and Lucca already mentioned, this is an organisation of > volunteers. Everybody who wants to volunteer can become a member, but > volunteers can also be 'only' OSGeo members. > > The "official" OSGeo-Europe members are responsible to guard the correct > working of the organisation, as a legal structure. 22 volunteers > expressed there interest to become a founding member and have signed the > bylaws that we discussed last year as a google drive document, and > during the BOF of July 19 2017. > > As a community we appreciate the help of everybody who wants to promote > Geo free and open source software. Everybody who want's to support the > local chapter can add his name on the wiki [1]. As of today there are > already 27 names on the list. The bylaws have a mechanism to add these > members as "full members" during the next general assembly (a similar > process as for OSGeo.org). > > But as Lucca already mentioned: it is more important to be a member of > OSGeo.org, although I hope we can make OSGeo.org stronger trough the > initiative we are setting up. > > Once we've got our formal acceptance by the OSGeo Board, we will publish > the bylaws in the Belgian Official Journal and create the legal > structure. We will start to setup the agenda of the typical European > points we want to work on this first year asap after acceptance. > > > Dirk > > PS. I added the European list as I think this discussion also concerns > the European list. > > > [1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Europe > > On 2017-07-23 15:32, Luca Delucchi wrote: > > On 23 July 2017 at 12:54, Jody Garnett <[email protected]> wrote: > >> All local chapters have the same relationship with OSGeo. > >> > >> A key reason to found a local chapter is to interact and advocate for > open > >> source on a regional city, state or national or union level - something > the > >> global osgeo organization is not in the best position to do. > >> > >> I do not think it is useful (or any of our business) to ask about > members > >> being automatically in a group. We are a volunteer organization and > members > >> volunteer where their hearts lie. > >> > > > > I fully agree with Jody, OSGeo EU will be a local chapter with its > > freedom as all the others, only the people who want be part of it > > should be part of it (for example I'm in Italian local chapter but > > right now I choose to not be part of OSGeo EU) > > > > As I already told during this days I don't fully believe on it right > > now (maybe in the future will be different) and I'm a little bit > > worried about the energy that it will take from other > > activities/chapter. > > > > However with more than 20 founders, most of them really well known in > > the OSGeo family, I think that OSGeo EU should be accepted as new > > chapter. > > > > my2cents > > > > -- > Yours sincerely, > > > ir. Dirk Frigne > CEO @geosparc > > 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 > > @DFrigne > be.linkedin.com/in/frigne > > _______________________________________________ > Board mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/board
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