[okfn-coord] Fwd: Possible collaboration from Euroalert to OKFN

[Rufus Pollock]

In the long run we may need an explicit policy on who/when we accept
support. In the short run I suggest writing back welcoming their
support and saying that:

a) they could become an institutional supporter (we could then feature
their logo on our supporters page)
b) they could support us in kind by donating cloud hosting space (they
offer this specifically)
c) obviously we'd be delighted if they disseminate info about our
events and projects through their network

Rufus

On 25 February 2010 13:16, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
> We're just received an offer of collaboration/support from a company
> called Euroalert.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Some background at:
>
>  http://en.blog.euroalert.net/2010/01/euroalertnet-contributes-list-of-uk.html
>
> Jonathan
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jose L. Marin <josmar at euroalert.net>
> Date: Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:11 PM
> Subject: Possible collaboration from Euroalert to OKFN
> To: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>
>
> Hi Jonathan!
>
> You can find out a bit of my background and activities in my profile and
> in Open Economy blog:
> http://linkedin.com/in/joseluismarin
> http://www.openeconomy.net/search/label/Jose%20L%20Marin
>
> Euroalert is building and selling for subscribers around Europe, several
> innovative services based on the re-use of PSI, mainly public
> procurement information and EU information. We provide that information
> via widgets or web services and we also do data-mining on tenders to
> help market intelligence for companies.
>
> Last November we participated in a roundtable on open data organized by
> Proyecto Aporta in FICOD 2009:
> http://en.blog.euroalert.net/search/label/FICOD%202009
>
> We would like know if it can be interesting for OKFN our contribution as
> a company committed to open knowledge. We can provide some support in
> several ways, like disseminating activities, share some of our cloud
> infrastructure to host web projects or any other thing you might propose.
>
> Best regards and let me know your views so we can go on discussing
> possibilities.
>
> --
> Jose L. Marin
> CEO
> http://euroalert.net/
> (34) 983 137 188
>
>
>
>
> --
> Jonathan Gray
>
> Community Coordinator
> The Open Knowledge Foundation
> http://blog.okfn.org
>
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