[OSM-talk-be] Your help needed: support request to Stichting NLnet

[Mark Van den Borre]

Dear all,

I need your support to ask Stichting NLnet for 10 gps data loggers in
the name of openstreetmap Belgium. Valer Mischenko (Stichting NLnet)
is wondering if this support request is carried broadly enough within
openstreetmap Belgium. If you like the idea, please URGENTLY SHOW YOUR
EXPLICIT AGREEMENT in an answer to this list.

Why is this urgent? I have talked to Martijn van Exel (openstreetmap
NL). On Thursday 2008/01/24, he has a meeting with Stichting NLnet on
supporting openstreetmap NL. He has offered me to address our humble
support request with them. If we miss this opportunity, we lose at
least two months of time until the next round, and credibility too.

My proposal:

• We present our goal just like openstreetmap international does.
"OpenStreetMap Belgium is a loosely-knit team of Belgian volunteers.
Our goal is to create free geographic data such as street maps to
anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you
think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on
their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive
or unexpected ways. Openstreetmap Belgium strives to work in close
cooperation with volunteer teams around the world, especially in
neighbouring countries. Openstreetmap Holland is our preferred partner
because of their wealth of expertise and the common language."
• We ask for 10 gps data loggers. How we get them (financial support,
donation, right to use for a year,...) is not important. From past
suggestions on this list, they need to be precise, compact, robust,
free software friendly, simple and energy efficient, like the iblue
747 for example.
• I limit myself to the role of contact person between openstreetmap
Belgium and Stichting NLnet, and just for this dossier. Contacts with
Stichting NLnet go through me or get bundled with openstreetmap NL's.
For openstreetmap NL, Martijn van Exel is the one who communicates
with Stichting NLnet. He also keeps a close eye on openstreetmap
Belgium developments. I push the information that flows between NLnet
and me to this list as much as possible.
• IF we get the data loggers, they first pass by my place. I label
them. Whoever want to use them asks this list. We keep a list on the
wiki where every data logger is, for what goal, since when and until
when.

Sincerely,

Mark

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Mark Van den Borre
Noormannenstraat 113
3000 Leuven, België
+32 486 961726