[OSGeo-Discuss] Workshop on Educational use of OSGeo Live - submission deadline 31 July 2012

[Suchith Anand]

Workshop on Educational use of OSGeo Live

The workshop is a first workshop in the topic and will focus on educational use 
of the OSGeo Live, which is a self-contained bootable DVD, USB thumb drive or a 
Virtual Machine based on Xubuntu containing a wide variety of free and open 
source geospatial software. The OSGeo Live system is ready-to-use and it can be 
extended with the Debian-based Ubuntu package system. Details at 
http://live.osgeo.org/en/index.html

The workshop aims to review the current state of how OSGeo and other free 
geospatial software and datasets are used in Universities, mainly in 
educational contexts, and discuss how the software could be better made 
advantage of especially by using the OSGeo Live. A further goal of the workshop 
is to initiate a network of people skilled in the technology behind the OSGeo 
Live system and coordinate resources of OSGeo education and curriculum 
community for this purpose.

This full day workshop will be held in conjunction with the 4th Open Source GIS 
Conference in Nottingham, UK, on September 4, 2012. Details at 
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/osgis/home.aspx

Workshop topics:

* OSGeo and other free geospatial software in Universities
* Educational materials that use free geospatial software
* Packaging software and other digital materials for Ubuntu
* Experiences in delivering education using free geospatial software
* Experiences in packaging educational materials for geospatial
* Experiences in using OSGeo Live in Universities
* Experiences in using OSGeo Edu and other initiatives (OLPC, RPi etc) in 
Schools

The workshop consists of invited talks and presentations selected from this 
call as well as of panel discussions, breakout sessions and other methods of 
collaboration.

Please submit a short abstract of your presentation (max 300 words) before July 
31, 2012. The presentations will be selected by the organizing committee. 
Presentations will in general be 30 minutes. You will receive notification of 
acceptance by August 10, 2012. All presentations will be published on the web 
and included in the OSGIS 2012 proceedings USB.

Please send the abstract of your presentation to 
ari.jo...@aalto.fi   before July 31, 2012.

Organizers:

Ari Jolma (Aalto University, Finland)

Suchith Anand  (University of Nottingham, UK)

Jeremy Morley  (University of Nottingham, UK)

Charles M. Schweik (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)




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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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On 07/24/2012 06:50 PM, Stefano Costa wrote:
> Il 24/07/2012 19:30, Ravi Kumar ha scritto:
> 
>> But now I feel this reduces the chances of voting to a worthy 
>> member competing for the board. At the same time it might be
>> rude not voting to any other if he feels that he might reduce
>> the chances of (his) the chosen one. Hope the present charter
>> will react to this.
> 
> Why not something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method
> as used by the Debian project?
> 
> Incidentally, this could be used for other voting purposes, too.
> 
> Ciao, steko

Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick with
what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this. But I
will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting so that
we don't wake up late for the next elections again...

Cheers,
Arnulf

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[Jeff McKenna]

On 12-07-25 10:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick
> with what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this.
> But I will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting
> so that we don't wake up late for the next elections again...
> 

I was just about to respond, as usual Arnulf you beat me to it :)

Even though the IRC logs clearly show that I was in support of that
change in 2010 at the time, I in fact now agree with Ravi, Venka,
Mori-san (wow such strong international voices, we must listen to them
I feel) - if voters want to show their strong support for a person by
giving them all of their votes, then might as well let them.

As a current nominee, the Board has my backing to change this now.

PS. Come on community, let's see those other nominations!

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Translating the page "Open Source Geospatial Foundation Officers and Board of Directors" in Greek

[Nikos Alexandris]

Folks, I can't find my way through to a"Greek" entry in:
?

Any help appreciated, Nikos
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Translating the page "Open Source Geospatial Foundation Officers and Board of Directors" in Greek

[Nikos Alexandris]

Folks, I can't find my way through to a"Greek" entry in:
?

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[Daniel Morissette]

On 12-07-25 9:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:


Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick with
what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this. But I
will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting so that
we don't wake up late for the next elections again...



I am with Arnulf on this: let's stick with what we have and revisit in 
time before the next election.


The current election schedule was proposed on June 14 [1] and 
discussed/edited for about a week until it was finally approved on June 
21 [2], so there was time for members to comment if they wanted to (and 
some did if you look in the archives). I don't care one way or the other 
personally for the voting, but I do know that it's not possile to make 
everyone happy and I'm sure that for every charter member requesting a 
change we can find one that would find it inappropriate to change the 
rules in the middle of an election.


[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2012-June/009714.html

[2] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2012-June/009745.html

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[Michael P. Gerlek]

+1

I like the old way better too, but Daniel it right: the comment period is past.

-mpg


> -Original Message-
> From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Morissette
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 7:06 AM
> To: discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting
> 
> On 12-07-25 9:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick with
> > what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this. But I
> > will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting so that
> > we don't wake up late for the next elections again...
> >
> 
> I am with Arnulf on this: let's stick with what we have and revisit in
> time before the next election.
> 
> The current election schedule was proposed on June 14 [1] and
> discussed/edited for about a week until it was finally approved on June
> 21 [2], so there was time for members to comment if they wanted to (and
> some did if you look in the archives). I don't care one way or the other
> personally for the voting, but I do know that it's not possile to make
> everyone happy and I'm sure that for every charter member requesting a
> change we can find one that would find it inappropriate to change the
> rules in the middle of an election.
> 
> [1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2012-June/009714.html
> 
> [2] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/board/2012-June/009745.html
> 
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> 
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial North America 2013 Conference

[David William Bitner]

*May 22-24, 2013
FOSS4G North America 2013
Marriott City 
Center
Minneapolis, MN - USA

Today the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference Committee announced
that the 2013
FOSS4G North America Conference  (FOSS4G-NA) will
take place May 22-24 at the Marriott City
Centerin
Minneapolis, MN.  FOSS4G brings together public and private-sector
stakeholders, innovators and developers who are at the forefront of free
and open source software for geospatial applications.

FOSS4G-NA 2013 will offer a broad program to discuss and build tools to
help solve some of the world's most pressing problems and business needs.
  Notably, 2013 marks the 10 year anniversary of the first MapServer Users
Meeting in Minnesota, the immediate predecessor of the FOSS4G Conference
Series.

FOSS4G-NA 2013 follows on the success of the 2012 conference held in
Washington, DC.  This regional event complements the larger
FOSS4GInternational Conference, the leading
global conference organized by OSGeo
focusing on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial. The 2013 FOSS4G
International Conference   is
currently scheduled for September 17-21 in Nottingham, UK.

Sponsorship Exhibition and Sponsorship information will be made available
shortly. If you're interested in exhibiting or sponsoring please email
sponsors [at] foss4g-na [dot] org for more information.

Related Links

   - http://foss4g-na.org/ FOSS4G North America
   - http://foss4g.org/ FOSS4G International Conference
   - http://osgeo.org/ Open Source Geospatial Foundation

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting

[Dimitris Kotzinos]

Hi all,

I do agree with Arnulf on this: changing the rules in the middle of an 
election and not considering thoroughly the implications of the change 
is probably problematic.
I think we need first to search a bit deeper on what exactly this means, 
e.g. do we prefer someone on the board that is voted by 8 people or 
someone strongly supported by one person with 8 votes? Of course this is 
an extreme case scenario but demonstrates in my view that at least some 
more consideration is needed ...
(on the other hand, this does not imply in any way that the proposal is 
somewhat wrong or something like that - it is more a matter of 
preference of the community).


Best regards,

Dimitris

P.S.: I think that it is probably time to remove the FOSS4G 2012 banner 
from the home page of OSGeo and maybe substitute it with the 2013 event?

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[OSGeo-Discuss] FOSS4G Korea and OGC TC/PC meeting in Seoul

[Shin, Sanghee]

Hi all,

OGC TC/PC Seoul meeting[1] will be held at COEX, Seoul from 7th ~ 12th Oct and 
at the same venue, FOSS4G Korea will be held at 12th Oct, the last day of OGC 
TC/PC meeting.  

FOSS4G Korea is annual local OSGeo conference to share experiences, knowledge 
and technologies among OSGeo Korean Chapter members. All most all the 
presentation will be in Korean except few. 

So I'm just wondering any OSGeo guys will attend OGC TC/PC Seoul meeting and 
then could make presence or give presentation/talks at FOSS4G Korea. If you are 
able to attend FOSS4G Korea, please let me know. Your presence will help Korean 
L.C. organize FOSS4G Korea program. 

During OGC TC/PC meeting, OSGeo Korean members will open & maintain OSGeo booth 
there in exhibition floor with support from OGC TC/PC L.O.C. OGC TC/PC L.O.C. 
reserved 1 booth for OSGeo at free!! OSGeo Korea will hand out OSGeo Live DVD 
there. 

And Smart Geo Expo 2012 [2], the largest geospatial event here in Korea, will 
held at the COEX from 10th ~ 12th, Oct. So if you pay a visit to Korea at 
October, you can attend 3 different conference at the venue at the same time!!

If you have inquiries or interest in coming to Korea, feel free to contact me. 

With regards, 

Sanghee

[1] http://ogcseoultcpc.info/
[2] http://www.smartgeoexpo.kr/
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[Anne Ghisla]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:20:58 -0300
Jeff McKenna  wrote:

> On 12-07-25 10:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick
> > with what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this.
> > But I will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting
> > so that we don't wake up late for the next elections again...
> 
> I was just about to respond, as usual Arnulf you beat me to it :)
> 
> Even though the IRC logs clearly show that I was in support of that
> change in 2010 at the time, I in fact now agree with Ravi, Venka,
> Mori-san (wow such strong international voices, we must listen to them
> I feel) - if voters want to show their strong support for a person by
> giving them all of their votes, then might as well let them.

I'd also prefer Schulze method over the current one - sorry for being
silent during election schedule. 
I am in favour to postpone changements to next election, unless most
voters prefer to change it for the current one.

> As a current nominee, the Board has my backing to change this now.
> 
> PS. Come on community, let's see those other nominations!

pps. welcome back Jeff :)

Best!
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 25 July 2012 15:05, Daniel Morissette  wrote:
> On 12-07-25 9:08 AM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick with
>> what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this. But I
>> will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting so that
>> we don't wake up late for the next elections again...
>>
>
> I am with Arnulf on this: let's stick with what we have and revisit in time
> before the next election.

Thoroughly +1

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS in Russia

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

Folks,
is anybody monitoring / aware of this event: http://gisconf.ru/en/

If you have any contacts there please suggest to them that we would be
happy to connect them with OSGeo, add their event to our calendar, maybe
give a presentation (any volunteers there?) and so on.

Cheers,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[H.S.Rai]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:40 AM, maning sambale
 wrote:
> I support this proposal.  We are already doing this for the Charter
> Membership election [0].

+1

Uniform election process for all posts is needed.

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> [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/New_Membership_Process#Voting
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[OSGeo-Discuss] DARPA-funded short-term incubator for geospatial data analysis

[Michael P. Gerlek]

DARPA and George Mason University are running a very novel, incubator-like 
opportunity for small teams of people interested in a chance to pursue radical 
new ideas in the areas of geospatial and visual data analysis.

If you've got an idea for something truly different in the geo data world, and 
would like to spend 8 weeks exploring the idea with a $50K budget, you can find 
more details and background here:

http://go.usa.gov/wo5

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/darpa-innovation-house-project-imaging-data/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/darpa-george-mason-seek-trailblazers-for-eight-week-innovation-house-study-program/2012/07/10/gJQAv06naW_blog.html

Deadline is July 31st, so act fast! 

[disclaimers: it is being run by my former boss at DARPA and I'm a member of 
the review committee]

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] DARPA-funded short-term incubator for geospatial data analysis

[Michael P. Gerlek]

Sorry, I left out the most important bit:

DARPA is very supportive of open source -- as a means of doing things 
cheaper, bootstrapping faster,
fostering collaboration, and promoting extensibility.

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-Original Message-
From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:m...@flaxen.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:54 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions (discuss@lists.osgeo.org)
Subject: DARPA-funded short-term incubator for geospatial data analysis

DARPA and George Mason University are running a very novel, incubator-like 
opportunity for small teams of people interested in a chance to pursue radical 
new ideas in the areas of geospatial and visual data analysis.

If you've got an idea for something truly different in the geo data world, and 
would like to spend 8 weeks exploring the idea with a $50K budget, you can find 
more details and background here:

http://go.usa.gov/wo5

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/darpa-innovation-house-project-imaging-data/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/darpa-george-mason-seek-trailblazers-for-eight-week-innovation-house-study-program/2012/07/10/gJQAv06naW_blog.html

Deadline is July 31st, so act fast! 

[disclaimers: it is being run by my former boss at DARPA and I'm a member of 
the review committee]

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[OSGeo-Discuss] What is an OSGeo director supposed to do?

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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Folks,
maybe this short blog [1] helps to get an idea about what to expect
from a good OSGeo director. And maybe you can then recognize yourself
in one of those areas of work and would like to give it a try?

Cheers,
Arnulf

[1] http://arnulf.us/sevendipity/

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members,
I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors.

I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of the most
trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He has always
proven to be highly sensitive to community related aspects and has an
international outlook, combined with very good English skills. This
makes him a good mediator between different regions and cultures, a
regularly upcoming issue in our community. This would already make him
an invaluable member of the board of directors. But this is not enough,
on top of this he also tends to the irksome job of treasurer and has
toiled through many down-to-earth tasks that an organization of our size
requires to get done. He is also an integral part of the Franco-Canadian
local community and a relentless contributor to the MapServer project.

It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so friendly
asks for it.

Thank you,
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette

[Michael P. Gerlek]

+1!

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-Original Message-
From: Seven (aka Arnulf) [mailto:se...@arnulf.us] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:19 AM
To: c...@osgeo.org; OSGeo Discussions
Subject: Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette

Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members,
I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors.

I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of the most 
trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He has always proven to 
be highly sensitive to community related aspects and has an international 
outlook, combined with very good English skills. This makes him a good mediator 
between different regions and cultures, a regularly upcoming issue in our 
community. This would already make him an invaluable member of the board of 
directors. But this is not enough, on top of this he also tends to the irksome 
job of treasurer and has toiled through many down-to-earth tasks that an 
organization of our size requires to get done. He is also an integral part of 
the Franco-Canadian local community and a relentless contributor to the 
MapServer project.

It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so friendly asks 
for it.

Thank you,
Arnulf

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting

[Massimiliano Cannata]

HI,
my 2 cents to the discussion...

I like the Stefano idea [1] where people can assign preferences and even
understanding
possible practical issues on changing the rules on the "fly", i believe
that if the proposal
of changing the rules meet a large consensum, it may worth to be applied.

Maxi

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Charles Schweik
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Dimitris Kotzinos 
> wrote:
>
> > I think we need first to search a bit deeper on what exactly this means,
> > e.g. do we prefer someone on the board that is voted by 8 people or
> someone
> > strongly supported by one person with 8 votes? Of course this is an
> extreme
> > case scenario but demonstrates in my view that at least some more
> > consideration is needed ...
>
> My wife is an academic who studies and teaches about nonprofit
> management and governance issues.
> I'm certain there is some literature "out there" on various approaches
> to board election voting rules. I'll see if I can find any that
> might be informative.
>
> Charlie Schweik
>
> Associate Professor
> University of Massachusetts, Amherst
>
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> Press, 2012) - see http://tinyurl.com/d3e4545
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] DARPA-funded short-term incubator for geospatial data analysis

[Michael P. Gerlek]

As someone just pointed out to me, I should add this further clarification:

All team members must be U.S. citizens and at least 18 years of age.

(If there was an "osgeo-discuss-usa" list, I'd have used that instead. 
Apologies.)

On a happier note, though, also observe that:

There are no specific academic, professional or experience-related 
requirements. If it is not 
obvious from a team's resumes, the team should make a credible case 
that it has the skills 
necessary to accomplish what it proposes.

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From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:m...@flaxen.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:58 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions
Subject: RE: DARPA-funded short-term incubator for geospatial data analysis

Sorry, I left out the most important bit:

DARPA is very supportive of open source -- as a means of doing things 
cheaper, bootstrapping faster,
fostering collaboration, and promoting extensibility.

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From: Michael P. Gerlek [mailto:m...@flaxen.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 9:54 AM
To: OSGeo Discussions (discuss@lists.osgeo.org)
Subject: DARPA-funded short-term incubator for geospatial data analysis

DARPA and George Mason University are running a very novel, incubator-like 
opportunity for small teams of people interested in a chance to pursue radical 
new ideas in the areas of geospatial and visual data analysis.

If you've got an idea for something truly different in the geo data world, and 
would like to spend 8 weeks exploring the idea with a $50K budget, you can find 
more details and background here:

http://go.usa.gov/wo5

http://www.engadget.com/2012/07/10/darpa-innovation-house-project-imaging-data/

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/darpa-george-mason-seek-trailblazers-for-eight-week-innovation-house-study-program/2012/07/10/gJQAv06naW_blog.html

Deadline is July 31st, so act fast! 

[disclaimers: it is being run by my former boss at DARPA and I'm a member of 
the review committee]

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Boad of Director Nomination: Daniel Morissette

[Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH]

+1 (in every possible way, an outstanding choice)

Mike

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On 7/25/12  1:18 PM, "Seven (aka Arnulf)"  wrote:

>Dear OSGeo Community, Charter Members,
>I want to nominate Daniel Morissette for the OSGeo board of directors.
>
>I have been working with Daniel for many years and he is one of the most
>trustworthy and consistently productive people I know. He has always
>proven to be highly sensitive to community related aspects and has an
>international outlook, combined with very good English skills. This
>makes him a good mediator between different regions and cultures, a
>regularly upcoming issue in our community. This would already make him
>an invaluable member of the board of directors. But this is not enough,
>on top of this he also tends to the irksome job of treasurer and has
>toiled through many down-to-earth tasks that an organization of our size
>requires to get done. He is also an integral part of the Franco-Canadian
>local community and a relentless contributor to the MapServer project.
>
>It would be silly to not squeeze some more out of him if he so friendly
>asks for it.
>
>Thank you,
>Arnulf
>
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board Nomination: Jeff McKenna

[Massimiliano Cannata]

Hi Jeff,
I would like to second your nomination.

Thanks for beeing "active" again!

Maxi




On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Jeff McKenna  wrote:

> Hello OSGeo community!
>
> I thank Mike for such a nice nomination.  It would be an honor to again
> represent the OSGeo community on the Board of Directors of OSGeo, and I
> accept this nomination.
>
> General Thoughts
> 
>
> OSGeo for me has always been about the community.  I have worked very
> hard in my career on specific parts of community building for OSGeo,
> that often involved no code writing: answering questions on mailing
> lists (often on non-English lists), documentation, installers, testing
> new features in software, providing feedback to developers, event
> planning, hands-on workshops, benchmarking...
>
> So, in my mind, the future of OSGeo will still be about the community.
> Sure, we/OSGeo are in the middle of an interesting time:
>
> - a 15,000-strong event is happening as I write this now in San Diego,
> and a lot of their products are using FOSS code now (this to me is very
> positive)
> - FOSS4G regional events are being created all around the globe (I am
> fascinated as I watch this)
> - Our recently added Charter Members are mostly all non-North American
> (wow really a great sign of OSGeo and FOSS4G spreading around the world)
> - OSGeo revenue sources are not as clear as before
> - a very interesting group is being formed as we speak, Location
> Industry Working Group, composed of some key industry players (and we
> must consider how OSGeo can work with this group, as there is some great
> momentum being generated there)
> - a large FOSS4G event will not be happening in 2012
>
> Ambitions for OSGeo
> ---
>
> I want OSGeo to grow.  I want every person in the geospatial industry to
> know what OSGeo and FOSS4G are.  I want them to see our passion, to feel
> it, to experience it.  And I want them to experience it in their local
> areas.  I want more local chapters forming, more informal chapter
> meetings over a drink and chat at the local restaurant.
>
> Personal Motivation
> ---
>
> Some of you might wonder what happened, that I felt I should resign from
> the OSGeo Board so recently (February), after being so active on it
> since back in September of 2009.  Some community members might have
> strong opinions that: I was worn out, exhausted, frustrated, unhappy
> that my FOSS4G Advisor proposal didn't take off, needed a change, not
> made for such a director position,... I've now heard many opinions.
> Looking back now, I needed a break.  After Denver I needed to take some
> time, to step back.  And I did just that.
>
> Recently some might have noticed that I am active again; indeed I feel
> rejuvenated.  I am the old me.  Passionate about OSGeo, FOSS4G, and,
> chicken wings and beer :)
>
> Personal Goals
> --
>
> As Mike mentioned, I don't lack any passion for OSGeo or FOSS4G, I can
> be very vocal, but sometimes that is not what is needed.  I must learn
> to be more professional, to let others do their jobs, to let things
> happen, and to help the community grow.  I will work hard to do this.
>
> I have made many mistakes; and because I am so open and vocal, all of my
> mistakes are there for everyone to see.  But I don't regret being open.
>  Mistakes give me character, make me who I am, allow me to grow.  So, I
> will grow with OSGeo and FOSS4G :)
>
> Call for more Board Nominations
> ---
>
> I too have been asking other community members these past weeks if they
> are interested in being nominated for the Board; I hope everyone is
> contacting their own local community leaders and asking them.
>
> Thanks
> --
>
> I also respect that sometimes it is good to have new members on the
> Board, a new perspective, from a different geographic region (or how did
> Arnulf put it? a non-NorthAmerican-middleaged-male? ha)  And I agree.
>
> But don't get me wrong, I am interested in helping OSGeo and FOSS4G.  I
> would be honored to represent the community again.
>
> Thank you everyone, you've all really helped me grow.
>
> -jeff
>
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>
>
>
>
> On 12-07-23 7:03 PM, Smith, Michael ERDC-CRREL-NH wrote:
> > I would like to nominate Jeff McKenna to the board of OSGeo.
> >
> > As to his qualifications, how much time to do you have? Jeff lives and
> > breathes OSGeo and is one of the most active members of the OSGeo
> > community. He is a friend, resource and gateway to all who have an
> > interest in Open Source (data and software) and OSGeo in particular.
> > Jeff is one of the original charter members (from 2006) and has been on
> > the OSGeo board before (September 2009). Jeff has a passion for OSGeo
> > that is unrivaled by anyone, a big heart, and  is considered someone
> > always ready to talk or listen when anyone, anywhere has a OSGeo
> > question, comment or critique. Jeff is very international in his

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS in Russia

[Maxim Dubinin]

Title: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS in Russia


Hi all,

let me provide some quick info first. We are going to make bigger formal announcement later everywhere including this list sometime next week.

Yes we're preparing a conference on open GIS from software, data and methods aspects (http://gisconf.ru). This will be a grassroots conference organized not by a particular company, but a group of enthusiasts from http://gis-lab.info and hopefully OpenStreetMap community.

I guess the right person to contact at this point would be me.

I'd love to hear about any suggestions on how we can make our conference better and wider and how we can work more closely with OSGeo.

Thanks for your interest, glad to know news ran ahead of us :)

Maxim
http://m-d.me

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Folks,

is anybody monitoring / aware of this event: http://gisconf.ru/en/



If you have any contacts there please suggest to them that we would be

happy to connect them with OSGeo, add their event to our calendar, maybe

give a presentation (any volunteers there?) and so on.



Cheers,

Arnulf



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS in Russia

[Maxim Dubinin]

Title: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Open Source GIS in Russia


Hi all,

let me provide some quick info first. We are going to make bigger formal announcement later everywhere including this list sometime next week.

Yes we're preparing a conference on open GIS from software, data and methods aspects. This will be a grassroots conference organized not by a particular company, but a group of enthusiasts from http://gis-lab.info and hopefully OpenStreetMap community.

I guess the right person to contact at this point would be me.

I'd love to hear about any suggestions on how we can make our conference better and wider and how we can work more closely with OSGeo.

Thanks for your interest, glad to know the news spread before any formal announcement :)

Maxim
http://m-d.me

Вы писали 25 июля 2012 г., 20:52:57:






Folks,

is anybody monitoring / aware of this event: http://gisconf.ru/en/



If you have any contacts there please suggest to them that we would be

happy to connect them with OSGeo, add their event to our calendar, maybe

give a presentation (any volunteers there?) and so on.



Cheers,

Arnulf



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 07/25/2012 04:08 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:

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On 07/24/2012 06:50 PM, Stefano Costa wrote:

Il 24/07/2012 19:30, Ravi Kumar ha scritto:


But now I feel this reduces the chances of voting to a worthy
member competing for the board. At the same time it might be
rude not voting to any other if he feels that he might reduce
the chances of (his) the chosen one. Hope the present charter
will react to this.

Why not something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method
as used by the Debian project?

Incidentally, this could be used for other voting purposes, too.

Ciao, steko

Thanks for the link steko. For this election I suggest we stick with
what we have though, probably a little late to introduce this. But I
will add the whole elections topic to the next board meeting so that
we don't wake up late for the next elections again...

Cheers,
Arnulf


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Hi,

+1 on Stefano's suggestion for this voting algorithm. Common and best 
practices from other strong open source communities are a very valuable 
input.

I also agree with Arnulf that we need to change this for the next election.

Regards,
Angelos

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Board] Fwd: Board elections Voting

[Even Rouault]

Hi,

> I also agree with Arnulf that we need to change this for the next election.

I also think that changing rules so close before the election period is not 
appropriate (imagine how people would call a governmenent that would do that 
before an election !)

There are pros and cons in every election system, and that should be decided 
with some time to weigh them properly if a new one is proposed.

> 
> Regards,
> Angelos
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting

[Howard Butler]

> On 2012/07/24, at 13:48, Ravi Kumar wrote:
> 
>> Please consider changing the rule that only One vote for one candidate (by 
>> the charter member) in the Board election.
>> 
>> Advantages:
>> The only way to show that you prefer a candidate is by voting to him / her 
>> more than once.

Disadvantages:

It allows a small, concentrated, and coordinated group of people to ensure that 
their one or two preferred candidates make it onto the board without otherwise 
having broad support of the electorate. After one or two election cycles, the 
board could be replaced with these "selected" board members through this 
effort.  Giving a member the ability to give 5 votes to one individual 
essentially gives them 5x the voting power for an individual candidate, and 
considering the fact that generally speaking the majority of the electorate 
doesn't stack their votes, differentially provides them even more voting power. 
 A statistical analysis and simulation of how this weighting works is left to 
the reader.

One member, one candidate, one vote. 

What is needs of the electorate or board are being served by having our 
election procedure be something otherwise?

Howard

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[OSGeo-Discuss] Questions for the Java tribe

[Cameron Shorter]

OSGeo Java tribe,
We are ever so close to having a bright and shiny OSGeoLive 6.0 release 
in time for OSGIS in Nottingham, however our packaging team are 
floundering over some simple java packaging questions. (We have C and 
linux based experience but are struggling in the java camp, especially 
as one of our points of contact is on holidays).


If you have some OSGeo java experience, and can spare a little time, 
could you please consider dropping by IRC or email and give us some advice.


irc://freenode.net#osgeolive

It would really help if we could have guidance around simple questions 
like: java packaging, classpath questions, java library dependencies, 
how to reduce size, tomcat vs resin, use of JAI, integration with GDAL.


We are currently having meetings daily in 2 timeslots over the next 
couple of days, but you will likely find one of us in this channel 24 
hrs/day at the moment:


Main timeslot:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2012&month=7&day=26&hour=20&min=30&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=215&p4=179&p5=224
Auckland  (New 
Zealand) 	8:30:00 AM 	NZST 
 
	UTC+12 hours
Sydney  
(Australia - New South Wales) 	6:30:00 AM 	EST 
 	UTC+10 
hours
Rome  (Italy) 
10:30:00 PM 	CEST 
 
UTC+2 hours
New York  (U.S.A. 
- New York) 	4:30:00 PM 	EDT 
 	UTC-4 
hours
San Francisco  
(U.S.A. - California) 	1:30:00 PM 	PDT 
 	UTC-7 
hours



Additional timeslot:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2012&month=7&day=26&hour=8&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=215&p4=179&p5=224
Auckland  (New 
Zealand) 	 8:00:00 PM 	NZST 
 
	UTC+12 hours
Sydney  
(Australia - New South Wales) 	6:00:00 PM 	EST 
 	UTC+10 
hours
Rome  (Italy) 
10:00:00 AM 	CEST 
 
UTC+2 hours
New York  (U.S.A. 
- New York) 	4:00:00 AM 	EDT 
 	UTC-4 
hours
San Francisco  
(U.S.A. - California) 	1:00:00 AM 	PDT 
 	UTC-7 
hours



Most of our issues are listed here:
https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/10

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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Board elections Voting

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 25 July 2012 21:23, Howard Butler  wrote:
>> On 2012/07/24, at 13:48, Ravi Kumar wrote:
>>
>>> Please consider changing the rule that only One vote for one candidate (by 
>>> the charter member) in the Board election.
>>>
>>> Advantages:
>>> The only way to show that you prefer a candidate is by voting to him / her 
>>> more than once.
>
> Disadvantages:
> [...]
> One member, one candidate, one vote.

Amen.

There is no need for anyone to show that she shows that she shows,
that she prefers one candidate over another.

If anyone feels a need to double or even triple expression of her feelings,
feel free send the candidate flowers or a box of chocolate, I suppose.

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