Ok, more clear now, thanks Luigi Pirelli ************************************************************************************************** * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir * Mastering QGIS 2nd Edition: * https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition * Hire me: http://goo.gl/BYRQKg **************************************************************************************************
On Sat, 24 Nov 2018 at 22:04, nicolas bozon <nicolas.bo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Luigi, > > Thanks for following my links and asking. > > First of all, i am not a developer, so please do not expect to find core > or revolutionary code on my Github nor on the OSGeo projects svn. > > I am rather a geo data product manager, cartographer and designer. I also > like to think that i am an OSGeo power user, with predisposition for > developer advocacy and community management. > > I believe my most significant activity or contribution to open source is > co-founding ZOO-Project with Gérald Fenoy and Venkatesh Raghavan (former > board members btw) and promoting it with the ZOO-Tribe since 10 years now. > > ZOO-Project is solid and scalable WPS implementation that allows to > execute and chain many of the OSGeo librairies such as GDAL, GRASS GIS, > OrfeoToolbox (but also others such as SAGA GIS, CGAL or R) all on the > server, in a OGC compliant way. I spent hundreds of hours designing the WPS > architecture along with co-founders, and i believe Gérald and other ZOO > developers implemented our vision the good way. I also wrote part of this > project documentation, along with Gérald and Jeff McKenna. If you are > really curious about my commits, please look way behind in the ZOO-Project > svn history and search for users like nbozon and nickboz :) > > Another significant contribution of mine to geospatial open source is the > design of the MapMint software. This is built on top of ZOO-Project, GDAL > and MapServer and also interacts smoothly with some well known clients such > as OpenLayers or QGIS. Among numerous online processing capabilities, > MapMint really leverages MapServer for non-developers, as it writes > mapfiles for them using a friendly UI and crazy mapscript, all served as > WPS. As for ZOO-Project, i spent uncountable man-days to achieve this work > with my OSGeo friends, and to share it with the community. I did a little > bit of coding there too, especially for the front-end prototypes and > documentation. Once again, if you are really looking at code related to me, > please have a look at the mapmint-ui directory on the MapMint github. > > For the record, these two projects are licensed under MIT styled licenses. > They were most notably used and extended within an innovative research > project from 2013 to 2015, funded by the European Commission FP7 Program. > They are also nowadays in production for a number of commercial projects > led by multiple private companies. > > I believe my open source activity and direct contributions also remain > through my involvement in numerous local and regional FOSS4G events > organization. > Traveling around the globe to help and spread the word, melting with the > Asian and European chapters, sharing ideas and knowledge with many > different OSGeo people are also contributions. They do not necessarily > involve code or development, but they at least allow me to say that i got > to know many of my fellow charter members and that i now understand OSGeo > globally. > > Past and current work with the OSGeo Marketing Committee are also often > impalpable yet meaningful contributions. > My pet project mapsk.in is another open source contribution, and even > gets a (very quiet) Github :) > > Sorry for this long answer Luigi. I hope that it helped you consider that > i am and will ever be an active OSGeo activist and contributor. > > I'd like to conclude by saying that i do not think being an active skilled > developer is mandatory to become an OSGeo director. > I think advocacy, strategy and openness are much more important for this > role. > > Best regards, > > Nicolas > > > > > > Le sam. 24 nov. 2018 à 10:57, Luigi Pirelli <lui...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> Hi Nicolas, do you have some more repo other this >> https://github.com/nbozon where to see your OS activities? >> >> Luigi Pirelli >> >> >> ************************************************************************************************** >> * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli >> * Stackexchange: http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli >> * GitHub: https://github.com/luipir >> * Mastering QGIS 2nd Edition: >> * >> https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition >> * Hire me: http://goo.gl/BYRQKg >> >> ************************************************************************************************** >> >> >> On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 17:55, nicolas bozon <nicolas.bo...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi OSGeo, >>> >>> Please read my manifesto here: >>> >>> >>> https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2018_Candidate_Manifestos#Nicolas_Bozon >>> >>> >>> And have a good week end ! >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> Discuss@lists.osgeo.org >>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> >>
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