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

[Johan Huysmans]

I fully agree with the proposal. It will be very useful when we have 
several gps devices by hand. This will help us to gather new 
contributors, which is always important. The administration (which 
device is where) about these devices has to be strict, because it still 
goes about an 100 EUR device or more.

As mentioned by other people it will be useful to have some budget to 
create posters and flyers.

In most cases we can learn (and co-operate) a lot with the Netherlands 
because they have already some experience with the requesting of budget 
and gps devices.

Thx Mark!
For putting your efforts in getting a budget for OSM-be

Greetings
Johan

Mark Van den Borre wrote:
> 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
>
>