Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G-Be September 22, 2016 in Brussels

[Johan Van de Wauw]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Maelle Vercauteren 
wrote:

> After the very succesful FOSS4G Belgium event in 2015, OSGeo.be will
> organise an new edition of the FOSS4G Belgium Conference on Thursday
> September 22, 2016 in Brussels, at the Environment and Energy Agency of
> Brussels.
> The following day, Friday September 23, starts the "State of the map" (
> http://2016.stateofthemap.org) until September 25, 2016 in Brussels too.
>
>
A reminder for anyone wishing to present at FOSS4G.be : our call for
contributions ends this week. So send your proposals to
presentati...@foss4g.be
Full details here: http://2016.foss4g.be/papers.php

Hope to see many of you in Brussels!
Johan
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award - Call for Nominations

[Paul Ramsey]

I'd like to nominate Vladimir Agafonkin, who

https://github.com/mourner

- birthed the most popular open source Javascript interface for mapping,
which has been a gateway drug for javascript and web UI folks around the
internet
- continues to add important javascript geospatial pieces to the open
source world, like the rbush, the simpleheat, and many other small and
useful utilities that people assemble into their solutions in the open
source tradition
- has become a spokes-person for doing lightweight spatial and simple web
development patterns as a means to solving spatial access problems
- killed the chorus in "we're up all night to get mappy" in Nottingham

A community member already with a huge record of contribution and seemingly
no end in sight!

P.


On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan <
ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations
> for the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
> Software.
>
> The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software
> (GFOSS) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership
> in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have contributed
> significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals
> in the geospatial realm.
>
> Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of
> work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities
> while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive
> provided both source code and applications freely available to the
> community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list
> servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large.
>
> Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but
> his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in
> making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's
> family's request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index.
>
> Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to
> solkatzaw...@osgeo.org with a description of the reasons for this
> nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on August
> 4th
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=4&year=2016&hour=23&min=59&sec=59
> .
>
> A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo
> selection committee.
>
> The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
> Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Bonn event in August. The
> hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community
> members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come.
>
> It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members
> are not eligible.
>
> More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award
>
> Past Awardees:
>
>- 2015: Maria Brovelli
>- 2014: Gary Sherman
>- 2013: Arnulf Christl
>- 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan
>- 2011: Martin Davis
>- 2010: Helena Mitasova
>- 2009: Daniel Morissette
>- 2008: Paul Ramsey
>- 2007: Steve Lime
>- 2006: Markus Neteler
>- 2005: Frank Warmerdam
>
> Selection Committee 2016
>
>- Venkatesh Raghavan (chair)
>- Frank Warmerdam
>- Markus Neteler
>- Steve Lime
>- Paul Ramsey
>- Sophia Parafina
>- Daniel Morissette
>- Helena Mitasova
>- Martin Davis
>- Arnulf Christl
>- Gary Sherman
>- Maria Brovelli
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
>
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award - Call for Nominations

[Paul Ramsey]

I'd like to nominate Sean Gillies, who

https://github.com/sgillies

- has brought spatial-with-pythonic-principles to the masses of python
users via the popular shapely and rasterio libraries
- had a hand in the birthing and nurturing of the geojson format, including
its recent entry into the IETF
- was an early articulator of rest principles for geospatial and an
important contributor to thinking in that area
- continues to chug away at bringing more spatial smarts into the world of
pythonistas

And if that's not enough, support his nomination just for the lulz.

P.


On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Venkatesh Raghavan <
ragha...@media.osaka-cu.ac.jp> wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations
> for the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
> Software.
>
> The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software
> (GFOSS) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership
> in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have contributed
> significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals
> in the geospatial realm.
>
> Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of
> work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities
> while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive
> provided both source code and applications freely available to the
> community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list
> servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large.
>
> Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but
> his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in
> making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's
> family's request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index.
>
> Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to
> solkatzaw...@osgeo.org with a description of the reasons for this
> nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on August
> 4th
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=4&year=2016&hour=23&min=59&sec=59
> .
>
> A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo
> selection committee.
>
> The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
> Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Bonn event in August. The
> hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community
> members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come.
>
> It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members
> are not eligible.
>
> More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award
>
> Past Awardees:
>
>- 2015: Maria Brovelli
>- 2014: Gary Sherman
>- 2013: Arnulf Christl
>- 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan
>- 2011: Martin Davis
>- 2010: Helena Mitasova
>- 2009: Daniel Morissette
>- 2008: Paul Ramsey
>- 2007: Steve Lime
>- 2006: Markus Neteler
>- 2005: Frank Warmerdam
>
> Selection Committee 2016
>
>- Venkatesh Raghavan (chair)
>- Frank Warmerdam
>- Markus Neteler
>- Steve Lime
>- Paul Ramsey
>- Sophia Parafina
>- Daniel Morissette
>- Helena Mitasova
>- Martin Davis
>- Arnulf Christl
>- Gary Sherman
>- Maria Brovelli
>
> Best
>
> Venka
>
>
>
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Sol Katz Award - Call for Nominations

[Venkatesh Raghavan]

Dear All,

The Open Source Geospatial Foundation would like to open nominations
for the 2016 Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
Software.

The Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software
(GFOSS) will be given to individuals who have demonstrated leadership
in the GFOSS community. Recipients of the award will have contributed
significantly through their activities to advance open source ideals
in the geospatial realm.

Sol Katz was an early pioneer of GFOSS and left behind a large body of
work in the form of applications, format specifications, and utilities
while at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. This early GFOSS archive
provided both source code and applications freely available to the
community. Sol was also a frequent contributor to many geospatial list
servers, providing much guidance to the geospatial community at large.

Sol unfortunately passed away in 1999 from Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, but
his legacy lives on in the open source world. Those interested in
making a donation to the American Cancer Society, as per Sol's
family's request, can do so at https://donate.cancer.org/index.

Nominations for the Sol Katz Award should be sent to
solkatzaw...@osgeo.org with a description of the reasons for this
nomination. Nominations will be accepted until 23:59 UTC on August
4th 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=8&day=4&year=2016&hour=23&min=59&sec=59.


A recipient will be decided from the nomination list by the OSGeo
selection committee.

The winner of the Sol Katz Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source
Software will be announced at the FOSS4G-Bonn event in August. The
hope is that the award will both acknowledge the work of community
members, and pay tribute to one of its founders, for years to come.

It should be noted that past awardees and selection committee members
are not eligible.

More info at the Sol Katz Award wiki page
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Sol_Katz_Award

Past Awardees:

 * 2015: Maria Brovelli
 * 2014: Gary Sherman
 * 2013: Arnulf Christl
 * 2012: Venkatesh Raghavan
 * 2011: Martin Davis
 * 2010: Helena Mitasova
 * 2009: Daniel Morissette
 * 2008: Paul Ramsey
 * 2007: Steve Lime
 * 2006: Markus Neteler
 * 2005: Frank Warmerdam

Selection Committee 2016

 * Venkatesh Raghavan (chair)
 * Frank Warmerdam
 * Markus Neteler
 * Steve Lime
 * Paul Ramsey
 * Sophia Parafina
 * Daniel Morissette
 * Helena Mitasova
 * Martin Davis
 * Arnulf Christl
 * Gary Sherman
 * Maria Brovelli

Best

Venka

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies

[Suchith Anand]

Dear colleague,

Please find details of Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies 
organised by the ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies at 
AutoCarto 2016, USA . Thanks to Mike Finn and Silvana Comboim for thier 
leadership.

Best wishes,

Suchith



Dr. Suchith Anand
http://www.geoforall.org/

Geo for All - Building and expanding Open Geospatial Science

From: Finn, Michael [mf...@usgs.gov]
Sent: 21 July 2016 5:52 PM
To: ica-opensou...@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: Save the Date -- Advancing GIScience with Open Source Technologies


Workshop on Open Source Geospatial Technologies
At AutoCarto 2016, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA
14 September 2016

AutoCarto is a Cartography and Geographic Information Society (CaGIS) research 
symposium held every two years. CaGIS is the US adhering body to the ICA.

This year AutoCarto 2016 will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 14 – 16 
September 2016 (http://tinyurl.com/p7bpfhp). The ICA Commission on Open Source 
Geospatial Technologies will hold a one-day workshop on “Advancing GIScience 
with Open Source Technologies.”

Agenda
Morning (start 0900 local)  --  Invited Speakers (30 minutes each for 
presentation and questions)

1) Silvana Camboim, Federal University of Paraná – UFPR, BRAZIL, Commission 
Chair, “Experiences on How Openness Can Help to Reduce Inequality”

2) Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University, USA, “GRASS GIS as 
open source innovation platform: from dynamic visualizations to collaborative 
tangible modeling” (co-authors: Anna Petrasova, Vaclav Petras, and Brendan 
Harmon)
Short Break

3) Alex Sorokine, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), USA, “Open-Source 
Software in the Cutting Edge Geocomputaion Research at ORNL”

4) James McAndrew, Colorado State University, contractor to the US National 
Park Service, USA, "Keeping Map Data Current Through the Use of Volunteered 
Geographic Information"

5) Carl Sack, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, "Teaching Open Source 
Web Mapping" (co-author: Robert Roth)


Lunch (1145)
Afternoon (start 1315 local)

6) Peter Baumann, Jacobs University Bremen, GERMANY, “Doing Datacubes in 
Open-Source: the rasdaman Scalable Array Engine”

7) Somesh Soni, Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, 
Varanasi, INDIA, "Selection of site for solid waste management using GIS 
technology"



Short Break



8) Syed Monjur Murshed, European Institute for Energy Research (EIFER), 
GERMANY, “Development of an Open Source 3D Browser to Visualize Modeling 
Results" (co-authors: Jochen Wendel, Akila Sriramulu, and Alexandru Nichersu)

Open Discussion (1500)  --  Silvana Camboim, Chair and Discussant
"Future Directions: Thinking About the Road Ahead"

Adjourn (1615)


Organizer
Michael P. Finn
U. S. Geological Survey, Center of Excellence in Geospatial Information Science
President, Cartography and Geographic Information Society
Vice-Chair, ICA Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies
(303) 202-4544
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Vote for Charter

[Ravi Kumar]

S.Rama Murthy and Shailesh Chaure have one thing in common. They are both
Geologists, and so go around India a lot, which is essential for an OSGeo
Promoter. While the former taught professional Geologists in Remote sensing
using Open Source Tools, the later is a teacher with many programs that
help a Geologist at Field work. They both wish to see tools of OSGeo to
promote GIS in India, which is essential for various reasons including
Transparent administration.

Wish to see them on the OSGeo Charter. Spread of Open Source GIS in Asia
and developing countries can bring in a difference how technology can be
used to mitigate corruption.

Cheers
V.Ravi Kumar
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[OSGeo-Discuss] [OSGeo Elections 2016] Vote for Charter Member nominations

[Vasile Craciunescu]

Dear all,

For this year we have 34 excellent nominations for OSGeo Charter Members 
[1]. It's time now for our existing Charter Members to vote these 
nominations. Today, in batches, individual e-mail vote invitations will 
be sent to each of our existing Charter Members. Please read the the 
technical instructions careful and vote for the future of our Foundation.


Warm regards,
Vasile
2016 CRO

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Member_Nominations_2016

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominating Werner Macho as a OSGeo charter

[Siki Zoltan]

+1 too

Zoltan Siki

On Thu, 21 Jul 2016, Luigi Pirelli wrote:


+1 :)

Luigi Pirelli

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On 9 July 2016 at 11:07, Vasile Craciunescu  wrote:

Forwarding Werner Macho nomination by Helmut Kudrnovsky.

Best regards,
Vasile
2016 OSGeo Elections CRO


 Forwarded Message 
Subject:Nominating Werner Macho as a OSGeo charter
Date:   Mon, 4 Jul 2016 20:31:16 +0200
From:   Helmut Kudrnovsky 
To: c...@osgeo.org


Dear CRO,

I want to nominate Werner Macho as OSGeo charter member for the election
2016.

I asked him allowing to nominate, he confirmed.

Reason:

Werner is a long-standing active member of the QGIS community and
development team (e.g. coordinating translations, helping hands in the
mailing lists and much more).

He will be a value addition to the OSGeo charter.

Best regards
Helmut Kudrnovsky
OSGeo charter member
 . .__.. .__.. ..
helmut kudrnovsky
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nominating Werner Macho as a OSGeo charter

[Luigi Pirelli]

+1 :)
Luigi Pirelli

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On 9 July 2016 at 11:07, Vasile Craciunescu  wrote:
> Forwarding Werner Macho nomination by Helmut Kudrnovsky.
>
> Best regards,
> Vasile
> 2016 OSGeo Elections CRO
>
>
>  Forwarded Message 
> Subject:Nominating Werner Macho as a OSGeo charter
> Date:   Mon, 4 Jul 2016 20:31:16 +0200
> From:   Helmut Kudrnovsky 
> To: c...@osgeo.org
>
>
> Dear CRO,
>
> I want to nominate Werner Macho as OSGeo charter member for the election
> 2016.
>
> I asked him allowing to nominate, he confirmed.
>
> Reason:
>
> Werner is a long-standing active member of the QGIS community and
> development team (e.g. coordinating translations, helping hands in the
> mailing lists and much more).
>
> He will be a value addition to the OSGeo charter.
>
> Best regards
> Helmut Kudrnovsky
> OSGeo charter member
>  . .__.. .__.. ..
> helmut kudrnovsky
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