Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Jorge Arévalo
I second this nomination, Jorge is one of the most active members of the Spanish speaking community and also a great code contributor. -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Valencia (España) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez
I also would like to second this nomination. Iván is a truly geonerd in all things GEO and NERD (he is one of the guys that holds an @geonerd.org email accounts so this is LITERAL) and also contributes with his unique perspective to everything that catches his attention. The FOS[S|D]4G world wouldn't be the same without his contributions. -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Valencia (España) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Moisés Arcos
I second this nomination. Moises is one of the MVP of the Community in southern Spain and keeps doing an incredible job spreading the FOSS4G word all around the Spanish speaking community. On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:05 AM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Moisés nomination by María Arias de Reyna. Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: María Arias de Reyna Date: 2014-07-23 21:51 GMT+02:00 Subject: [Election 2014] Nomination for Moisés Arcos To: Jorge Sanz, CRO Hi, I would like to nominate Moisés Arcos[1][2] for OSGeo charter membership. He is a very active member of the Spanish local chapter in Sevilla (GeoInquietos). Right now he is promoting a mapping party in Sevilla with the local SDI and he is actively working opening data. A recent example of his work opening data is OpenCycleSeville[3]. Regards, María. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Moiarcsan [2] https://github.com/moiarcsan [3] https://github.com/GeoinquietosSevilla/opencycleseville -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Valencia (España) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez
I can't believe he is not part of osgeo yet. He has done much more than some of us here! On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses pfer...@osgeo.org wrote: I also would like to second this nomination. Iván is a truly geonerd in all things GEO and NERD (he is one of the guys that holds an @geonerd.org email accounts so this is LITERAL) and also contributes with his unique perspective to everything that catches his attention. The FOS[S|D]4G world wouldn't be the same without his contributions. -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Valencia (España) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez
I strongly support Ivan's nomination! I was glad to meet him at FOSS4G CEE 2013 when he gave the great OGCGISAPILOLINSPIREOMGESRIRESTWTFEPICWIN keynote :) All the best, Codrina P.S. Surprised his not already a Charter Member. On 7/24/14, 9:35, María Arias de Reyna wrote: I can't believe he is not part of osgeo yet. He has done much more than some of us here! On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses pfer...@osgeo.org mailto:pfer...@osgeo.org wrote: I also would like to second this nomination. Iván is a truly geonerd in all things GEO and NERD (he is one of the guys that holds an @geonerd.org http://geonerd.org email accounts so this is LITERAL) and also contributes with his unique perspective to everything that catches his attention. The FOS[S|D]4G world wouldn't be the same without his contributions. -- Pedro-Juan Ferrer Matoses Valencia (España) ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: Nomination for Zoltan Siki
I second Jachym 2014-07-24 0:32 GMT+02:00 Martin Landa landa.mar...@gmail.com: Dear all, 2014-07-23 23:48 GMT+02:00 Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org: It is my honour to nominate Zoltan Siki for OSGeo Charter membership. Zoltan has been a longtime advocate for OSGeo by being very active in the Hungarian community. He has contributed translations and tutorials for many OSGeo projects, and has given several hands-on workshops. I have had the pleasure to meet Zoltan at several FOSS4G events, and I was surprised to hear that he is not a Charter member yet. I believe he deserves to be thanked for his hard work supporting OSGeo and FOSS4G. first I met Zoltan on FOSS4G-CEE in Prague and I fully support his nomination. Martin -- Martin Landa * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Oliver Tonnhofer
Unbelievable olt is not an OSGeo Charter member yet - i secund this nomination. Marco Lechner Am 23.07.2014 um 18:28 schrieb Jorge Sanz: Forwarding Oliver Tonhofer nomination by Cameron Shorter Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Cameron Shorter Date: 2014-07-23 11:11 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nominate Oliver Tonnhofer as OSGeo Charter member To: CRO c...@osgeo.org, Oliver Tonnhofer I'd like to nominate Oliver Tonnhofer to be an OSGeo Charter Member. I can vouch for Oliver's contribution to the OSGeo-Live project where he is the maintainer of MapProxy on OSGeo-Live. He is also the core-developer of MapProxy and Imposm, and has spoken at FOSS4G, FOSSGIS and FOSS4GE conferences. You can see his OSGeo Advocate Profile here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Oliver_Tonnhofer -- + Verpasst? FOSSGIS 2014, Die Konferenz für Open Source GIS mit OpenData und OpenStreetMap! Alle Vorträge nachschauen: http://www.youtube.com/fossgis + FOSSGIS e.V. die unabhängige Hilfe bei freier GIS-Software und freien Geodaten http://www.fossgis.de + ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] OWSLib for JavaScript
Hi, at FOSS4G-Europe, discussion was started, whether there would be space for generic OWS client library, kind of sister project to Python-based OWSLib, but for JavaScript. Nowadays, OpenLayers was taken into account, if you wanted to interface with various OWS servers and it did always really great job. But to have something neutral, so that various projects could relay on it, should make sense (similar to what Proj4js is doing). Shall we setup github repository, create mailing list at lists.osgeo.org and go on? Any thoughts, comments? Jachym P.S. Sorry for cross posting, but please continue at discuss [at] lists.osgeo.org and please, forward to your communities -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Oliver Tonnhofer
second this nomination 2014-07-24 10:20 GMT+02:00 Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V. marco.lech...@fossgis.de: Unbelievable olt is not an OSGeo Charter member yet - i secund this nomination. Marco Lechner Am 23.07.2014 um 18:28 schrieb Jorge Sanz: Forwarding Oliver Tonhofer nomination by Cameron Shorter Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Cameron Shorter Date: 2014-07-23 11:11 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nominate Oliver Tonnhofer as OSGeo Charter member To: CRO c...@osgeo.org, Oliver Tonnhofer I'd like to nominate Oliver Tonnhofer to be an OSGeo Charter Member. I can vouch for Oliver's contribution to the OSGeo-Live project where he is the maintainer of MapProxy on OSGeo-Live. He is also the core-developer of MapProxy and Imposm, and has spoken at FOSS4G, FOSSGIS and FOSS4GE conferences. You can see his OSGeo Advocate Profile here: http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Oliver_Tonnhofer -- + Verpasst? FOSSGIS 2014, Die Konferenz für Open Source GIS mit OpenData und OpenStreetMap! Alle Vorträge nachschauen: http://www.youtube.com/fossgis + FOSSGIS e.V. die unabhängige Hilfe bei freier GIS-Software und freien Geodaten http://www.fossgis.de + ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OWSLib for JavaScript
Lately I’ve been looking into JSONIX [1][2] and I’ve successfully used it for WPS. I think this could be an option for the format level support. Best regards,, Bart [1] http://confluence.highsource.org/display/JSNX/Jsonix [2] https://github.com/highsource/jsonix On 24 Jul 2014, at 10:48, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, at FOSS4G-Europe, discussion was started, whether there would be space for generic OWS client library, kind of sister project to Python-based OWSLib, but for JavaScript. Nowadays, OpenLayers was taken into account, if you wanted to interface with various OWS servers and it did always really great job. But to have something neutral, so that various projects could relay on it, should make sense (similar to what Proj4js is doing). Shall we setup github repository, create mailing list at lists.osgeo.org and go on? Any thoughts, comments? Jachym P.S. Sorry for cross posting, but please continue at discuss [at] lists.osgeo.org and please, forward to your communities -- Jachym Cepicky e-mail: jachym.cepicky gmail com URL: http://les-ejk.cz GPG: http://les-ejk.cz/pgp/JachymCepicky.pgp Give your code freedom with PyWPS - http://pywps.wald.intevation.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for David Fawcett
I second David Fawcett ' nomination. He's been an invaluable member of the OSGeo - Twin Cities and the open source community in general. -Perry Nacionales On Jul 23, 2014 5:01 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding David Fawcett nomination by David Bitner Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: David William Bitner Date: 2014-07-22 21:06 GMT+02:00 Subject: New Member Nomination -- David Fawcett To: OSGeo CRO c...@osgeo.org David Fawcett has been an integral part of the Twin Cities Local Chapter of OSGeo / Twin Cities Mapserver Users Group for over a decade. David has been a vocal proponent of Open Source, Open Data, and Civic Participation in GIS over the years. Notable contributions have included founding of the Spatial Hotdish GIS mashup competition and acting as Program Chair of the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference. David has also been very active in the Minnesota GIS/LIS consortium including helping to bring forward the ideals of Open GIS to the broader GIS community with workshops, presentations, and general advocacy. David has a strong knack for bridging the traditional GIS world with the developer centric Open Source world. -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez
El Miércoles, 23 de julio de 2014 19:37:40 Jeff McKenna escribió: I second the nomination for Iván. [...] I like being around him any chance I get. Does this mean you still haven't got a chance to visit me in Norway? Shame on you, Jeff, shame on you. :-P -- Iván Sánchez Ortega i...@sanchezortega.es ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez
ha, good point! :) -jeff On 2014-07-24, 8:04 AM, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote: Does this mean you still haven't got a chance to visit me in Norway? Shame on you, Jeff, shame on you. :-P ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] GeoPrisma still active? Alternatives?
Hi, I've found GeoPrisma (http://geoprisma.org) being a promising web mapping application for access control to geospatial data via a proxy. Now it seems to be abandoned since over a year. Is this true? Are there alternatives (in Python, Ruby or Java)? --Stefan ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for David Fawcett
I'll second Dave's nomination. Besides the work Dave Bitner mentions, Dave has been a regular presenter at state GIS/LIS meetings on topics ranging from MapServer to Python. More recently he was one of the key technical resources in the launch of a new state-level geospatial data portal (gisdata.mn.gov) that uses CKAN, PostGIS, Python and other open source tools. Steve -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 5:01 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: CRO; bit...@dbspatial.com Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for David Fawcett Forwarding David Fawcett nomination by David Bitner Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: David William Bitner Date: 2014-07-22 21:06 GMT+02:00 Subject: New Member Nomination -- David Fawcett To: OSGeo CRO c...@osgeo.org David Fawcett has been an integral part of the Twin Cities Local Chapter of OSGeo / Twin Cities Mapserver Users Group for over a decade. David has been a vocal proponent of Open Source, Open Data, and Civic Participation in GIS over the years. Notable contributions have included founding of the Spatial Hotdish GIS mashup competition and acting as Program Chair of the 2013 FOSS4G North America Conference. David has also been very active in the Minnesota GIS/LIS consortium including helping to bring forward the ideals of Open GIS to the broader GIS community with workshops, presentations, and general advocacy. David has a strong knack for bridging the traditional GIS world with the developer centric Open Source world. -- David William Bitner dbSpatial LLC 612-424-9932 -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Jukka Rahkonen
Big thumbs up on Jukka's nomination and an equally big thanks for all the work he does supporting users within the MapServer community. I wasn't aware of breadth of his involvement and that is indeed impressive! Steve -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jorge Sanz Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 4:54 PM To: OSGeo Discussions Cc: Jukka Rahkonen; CRO Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Jukka Rahkonen Forwarding Jukka nomination by Even Rouault Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Even Rouault Date: 2014-07-21 20:35 GMT+02:00 Subject: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination: Jukka Rahkonen To: c...@osgeo.org Cc: Jukka Rahkonen Dear OSGeo community, I'd like to nominate Jukka Rahkonen, from Finland, for OSGeo charter membership. Jukka is one of the few people who belong to several PSCs of our OSGeo projects, namely Geoserver since 2012 and GDAL since 2013 (and among the very few to make the bridge between the Java and C/C++ tribes !) As far as GDAL is concerned, Jukka is one of our most active power users since many years. You've probably noticed him many times answering to questions from other users on the mailing list, testing bleeding edge trunk or doing precise bug reports. It was a pleasure for me to finally meet him in person at Nottingham last year. Jukka is also involved into other OSGeo (or related) communities such as MapServer, TinyOWS or Spatialite, which gives him a quite broad vision in the geospatial field. Jukka also maintains Finnish translations for OpenJUMP and Kosmo GIS and has given a workshop on GeoPackage in the Finnish OSGeo seminar this year. Even -- Geospatial professional services http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the attention of the whole community. Thanks all, -jeff ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the attention of the whole community. Thanks all, -jeff Agreed. On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am female and not because I worked hard.) I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :) Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important? Regards, María. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
I totally agree with Maria. As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel that my gender matters in the slightest. I'm far more concerned about a bias towards people from the US or Northern/Western Europe if we are trying to be truly global. Jo On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the attention of the whole community. Thanks all, -jeff Agreed. On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am female and not because I worked hard.) I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :) Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important? Regards, María. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- *Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform http://www.isharemaps.com/ * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:55:16 +0200 María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the attention of the whole community. Thanks all, -jeff Agreed. On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am female and not because I worked hard.) I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :) Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important? I agree with Maria. This remembers me some past discussions while creating OSGeo-Women mailing list. At first we can say that no one is preventing women to enter OSGeo jsut because they are women. But waiting the balance to change without doing nothing is in my opinion not the way to go. Also forcing a female quota like some countries do for elections is not the solution, because it gives gender more importance than merit. My idea is to give everyone the same possibilities, without giving gender/language/etc predefined choices. Therefore I really like the idea of talking about OSGeo in schools - and OSGeo education group is working in that direction, even if not (yet?) to younger kids. Of course this is an approach that will bring results in a long time, but I feel it is the strongest. Best, Anne -- http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Aghisla signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
Hi, thank you Jeff for having raised this matter, I find it really interesting for the sake of pure data analysis and discussion. I agree with Maria except one single point: is it really important? I think it is. As Maria points out, I agree it is not from OSGeo side that the problem should be addressed, because i don't see any barriers for women approaching OSGeo. On the contrary, it is one of the kindest and welcoming environment. But I think that it would be very interesting to analyse the real causes why women apparently seem not to be attracted by these subjects. I think that there are deeper sociological and practical reasons behind. It would be an interesting exercise to explore the correlation between number of females in open source/technology/science with some drivers such as the perspective of working stability offered by different countries, the facilities for working mothers offered by private and public sectors and so on. I think that exploring such reasons in detail would really help to improve society and to offer real equal opportunities to every citizen. Best, madi On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the attention of the whole community. Thanks all, -jeff Agreed. On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am female and not because I worked hard.) I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :) Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important? Regards, María. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OWSLib for JavaScript
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Jachym Cepicky jachym.cepi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, at FOSS4G-Europe, discussion was started, whether there would be space for generic OWS client library, kind of sister project to Python-based OWSLib, but for JavaScript. Nowadays, OpenLayers was taken into account, if you wanted to interface with various OWS servers and it did always really great job. But to have something neutral, so that various projects could relay on it, should make sense (similar to what Proj4js is doing). I've started csw4js in the same spirit [1] [2] however progress is slow. It would be great to have an all purpose lib like this and I'd be glad to move csw4js into it. Shall we setup github repository, create mailing list at lists.osgeo.org and go on? If there is interest (and hands), yes! +1 from me. Any thoughts, comments? Cheers ..Tom [1] https://github.com/tomkralidis/csw4js [2] http://www.kralidis.ca/blog/2014/04/28/csw-client-library-for-javascript-the-adventure-begins/ ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
Ciao Andrea, On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Andrea Giacomelli pibi...@gmail.com wrote: quick question: does OSGEO have a feel -or even better a number- of the gender proportion in the OSGEO population? (take for instance this mailing list as a proxy). When you subscribe this ML you're not (hopefully) asked about your gender ... cheers, madi best Andrea http://www.pibinko.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
quick question: does OSGEO have a feel -or even better a number- of the gender proportion in the OSGEO population? (take for instance this mailing list as a proxy). best Andrea http://www.pibinko.org 2014-07-24 17:16 GMT+02:00 Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com: Hi, thank you Jeff for having raised this matter, I find it really interesting for the sake of pure data analysis and discussion. I agree with Maria except one single point: is it really important? I think it is. As Maria points out, I agree it is not from OSGeo side that the problem should be addressed, because i don't see any barriers for women approaching OSGeo. On the contrary, it is one of the kindest and welcoming environment. But I think that it would be very interesting to analyse the real causes why women apparently seem not to be attracted by these subjects. I think that there are deeper sociological and practical reasons behind. It would be an interesting exercise to explore the correlation between number of females in open source/technology/science with some drivers such as the perspective of working stability offered by different countries, the facilities for working mothers offered by private and public sectors and so on. I think that exploring such reasons in detail would really help to improve society and to offer real equal opportunities to every citizen. Best, madi On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the attention of the whole community. Thanks all, -jeff Agreed. On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am female and not because I worked hard.) I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :) Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important? Regards, María. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Best regards, Dr. Margherita DI LEO Scientific / technical project officer European Commission - DG JRC Institute for Environment and Sustainability (IES) Via Fermi, 2749 I-21027 Ispra (VA) - Italy - TP 261 Tel. +39 0332 78 3600 margherita.di-...@jrc.ec.europa.eu Disclaimer: The views expressed are purely those of the writer and may not in any circumstance be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
right...I said for instance to identify a population - does OSGEO have a feel -or even better a number- of the gender proportion in the OSGEO population? in the 2007-2010 times for GFOSS.it we used to ask about gender (or rather: it was easier to detect the information for members of the Italian chapter), and we used to present these statistics in events etc. so as to give different angles on our communitiy, together with age ranges, and other simple census parameters, and this type of view was appreciated. Not sure if this practice is still going on... I was just considering that if we don't know what it the actual gender proportion in the whole OSGEO community, the gender proportion in nominations for Charter members may be interpreted more subjectively. ciao andrea http://www.pibinko.org 2014-07-24 17:47 GMT+02:00 Margherita Di Leo dileomargher...@gmail.com: Ciao Andrea, On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Andrea Giacomelli pibi...@gmail.com wrote: quick question: does OSGEO have a feel -or even better a number- of the gender proportion in the OSGEO population? (take for instance this mailing list as a proxy). When you subscribe this ML you're not (hopefully) asked about your gender ... cheers, madi best Andrea http://www.pibinko.org ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Funded projects using FOSS4G tools with respect to water management
Wow!!! Thank you so much folks! With all these examples plus what I've found digging the internet I have around 20 use cases of FOSS4G applied to water management around the world. I guess that's good enough, I'll show the people that FOSS4G rocks! Thanks again, Mauri ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
Jo wrote: As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel that my gender matters in the slightest. Having heard too many sad stories from across the software industry, and having seen a couple first-hand, that totally makes my day. We’re doing something right, folks. Thanks. -mpg ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Ivan Mincik
+1 On 07/22/2014 02:16 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote: I second Ivan's nomination. Venka On 2014/07/22 5:03, Jachym Cepicky wrote: Hi all, I would like to nominate Ivan Mincik [1] for OSGeo chareter membership. Ivan is very active at Slovakia, working with, promoting and providing support to the OSGeo stack. Among his publicly available work, GISLab [2] is to be mentioned. He is also active in the packaging community. I had possibility to talk to Ivan several times and I think, he would be valuable charter member of OSGeo. Jachym [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Imincik [2] https://github.com/imincik/gis-lab ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss . -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] nomination for Jeffrey Johnson
+1 from me too! On 07/23/2014 03:02 PM, Paolo Corti wrote: I also second this nomination. Jeff is incredibly active in the GIS Python community, and one of the most proficient and prolifitor contributor to the GeoNode project p On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 6:03 AM, Tom Kralidis tomkrali...@gmail.com wrote: Hi: I second this nomination. ..Tom -- Forwarded message -- From: Bart van den Eijnden bart...@osgis.nl Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:10 AM Subject: nomination for Jeffrey Johnson To: c...@osgeo.org Cc: Jeffrey Johnson ortel...@gmail.com I’d like to nominate Jeffrey Johnson for OSGeo charter membership. Jeff is truly passionate about open source geospatial and he brings a lot of skills to the table (deep technical skills, project management, business skills). He is one of the driving forces behind the GeoNode project [1], an open source geospatial content management system based on technologies such as pyCSW and GeoServer. In his professional career he was a Brigade Captain at Code For America and he worked for OpenGeo / Boundless up until recently. Jeff is also very involved in the OSM community. [1] http://geonode.org Best regards, Bart ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Johan Van de Wauw
On 07/21/2014 10:19 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: Nomination of Johan van de Wauw by Jeff McKenna. Best Regards Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff McKenna Date: 2014-07-21 19:26 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Johan Van de Wauw To: c...@osgeo.org c...@osgeo.org Cc: Johan Van de Wauw It is my pleasure to nominate Johan Van de Wauw for OSGeo Charter membership. Active in the Belgium community, Johan has been working hard lately on helping with the OSGeo-Live project. He is also active in the SAGA GIS community. He also helps organize the FOSDEM conference in Europe. I had the pleasure of meeting Johan in Bremen recently, and I really like his raw enthusiasm and passion for all-things-FOSS4G. -jeff Jeff was faster than me here, I second Johan's nomination. -- Angelos Tzotsos Remote Sensing Laboratory National Technical University of Athens http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Fwd: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination: Stephan Meißl
Wow, I'm absolutely overwhelmed. Many thanks for all your support, this is really encouraging. cu Stephan On 07/21/2014 01:32 PM, Jorge Sanz wrote: I forward Stephan Meißl nomination for the OSGeo Charter Membership elections. Best Regards Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Helmut Kudrnovsky Date: 2014-07-19 0:29 GMT+02:00 Subject: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination: Stephan Meißl To: c...@osgeo.org Cc: Stephan Meißl Dear CRO and OSGeo Community, as the nomination period for OSGeo Charter Member started right now [1], it's a honor for me to nominate Stephan Meißl [2]. Stephan is a committer to MapServer [3] and also a member of the MapServer PSC [4]. As well known in the OSGeo community, he has organized the wonderfull OSGeo Code Sprint 2014 [5] [6] in Vienna which was great step forward in community building between all the nice OSGeo projects. So I am convinced that Stephan will be very valuable OSGeo Charter Member. Best regards Helmut Kudrnovsky OSGeo Charter Member [7] [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Election_2014 [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Schpidi [3] https://github.com/mapserver/mapserver/blob/master/COMMITERS [4] http://mapserver.org/development/rfc/ms-rfc-23.html [5] http://vienna2014.sprint.osgeo.org/ [6] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Vienna_Code_Sprint_2014 [7] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Hellik ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Alejandro Díaz
Forwarding Alejandro Díaz nomination by María Arias de Reyna Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: María Arias de Reyna Date: 2014-07-23 22:11 GMT+02:00 Subject: [Election 2014] Nomination for Alejandro Díaz To: Alejandro Díaz , CRO c...@osgeo.org, Jorge Sanz Alejandro is an active member of the Spanish local chapter in Sevilla (GeoInquietos). He has been working with foss software for a long time, collaborating with different projects like geonetwork and mapstore. He is also known on several spanish foss4g events like the last Girona Conference, where he collaborated on several presentations. Regards, María. [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Alediator [2] https://github.com/alediator -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Andrea Antonello
Forwarding Andrea Antonello nomination by Luca Delucchi Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Luca Delucchi Date: 2014-07-24 8:44 GMT+02:00 Subject: Andrea Antonello nomination To: c...@osgeo.org I would like to nominate Andrea Antonello as Charter Member. He is long time contributor to several OSGeo Java project. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Andrea_Antonello -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Pieter De Graef
Forwarding Pieter De Graef nomination by Dirk Frigne Cheers Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Dirk Frigne dirk.fri...@geosparc.com Date: 2014-07-24 11:05 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination of Pieter De Graef as Charter member To: c...@osgeo.org Cc: managementsupp...@geosparc.com, Pieter De Graef pieter.degr...@geomajas.org Dear CRO, I'd like to nominate Pieter De Graef (contact data in cc) to be an OSGeo Charter Member. Pieter is an active member and chair on the PSC of the Geomajas project [1]. He also is a regular speaker on FOSS4G conferences, having a talk in Cape-town (2008), Sydney (2009), Barcelona (2010), Denver (2011), Nottingham (2013) One of the presentations I could find back online was [2]. Pieter also is an advocate to implement open source solutions into the processes of administrations. He is a project leader in some large integration projects, completely based on open source. A nice example of a public service can be found here [3] [4] among a lot of other examples. Pieter is also responsible for the geomajas section on the liveDVD and is working hard to bring the usability of the framework to a level it becomes very easy to adopt, without giving up on the original goals and standards. I work with Pieter almost 10 years together and I am happy to see he is working really hard to spread the word of FOSS in his environment. I asked Pieter to create an advocate profile asap [1] http://www.osgeo.org/geomajas [2] http://2013.foss4g.org/conf/programme/presentations/68/index.html [3] https://www.dov.vlaanderen.be/bodemviewer/ [4] https://www.dov.vlaanderen.be/rubriek55/ -- Yours sincerely, ir. Dirk Frigne CEO Geosparc n.v. Brugsesteenweg 587 B-9030 Ghent Tel: +32 9 236 60 18 GSM: +32 495 508 799 http://www.geomajas.org http://www.geosparc.com -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Christian Mayer
Forwarding Chris Mayer nomination by Marc Jansen Best regards Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Marc Jansen Date: 2014-07-23 20:38 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination of Christian Mayer for OSGeo charter membership To: c...@osgeo.org Hi Jorge, hi CRO, I'd like to nominate Christian Mayer for OSGeo charter membership. Chris (as he is usually called) is involved in the development of several OpenSource Projects. He is one of the cofounders of the GeoExt Mobile (GXM) and SHOGun projects and a committer for GeoExt and GeoExt 2. He has provided patches for several other projects (OpenLayers, MapFish) as well. Furthermore he does beta testing (e.g. for GeoTools on Windows machines), blogs about tech and is a frequent speaker at international and German conferences (where he shares his love for OpenSource). Additionally he also helps users via mailinglists etc. Lastly I'd like to stress that I personally value the opinions and thoughts of my friend Chris very much. I am sure that the OSGeo will profit from him being a future charter member. Chris confirmed that he'd be glad to be a charter member. Name: Christian Mayer Country: Germany Best regards, Marc Jansen -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Steven Feldman
+1 I strongly support this nomination. I’m very surprised that Steven is not a charter member. Best, Sanghee 2014. 7. 24., 오후 9:06, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org 작성: Forwarding Steven Feldman nomination by Anne Ghisla Best regards Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Anne Ghisla Date: 2014-07-24 9:53 GMT+02:00 Subject: Nomination for Steven Feldman To: c...@osgeo.org Cc: Steven Feldman it is my pleasure to nominate Steven Feldman [0] from London, UK for OSGeo Charter membership. Steven has been involved in a combination of GIS, business and open source for many years [1], and is currently an External Lecturer at Nottingham University, a strategic advisor to Astun Technology, chairman of geo.me Solutions and Exprodat Consulting and a board advisor at OpenCage Data [0, 1]. Steven's most recent and substantial contribution to open source geospatial has been serving as Chair of the LOC of FOSS4G 2013 in Nottingham. At that event I started insightful discussions with him about OSGeo future and long term sustainability, that continue to the present date. Kind regards, Anne [0] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/User:Stevenfeldman [1] http://knowwhereconsulting.co.uk/biog/ -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss --- Shin, Sanghee Gaia3D, Inc. - Helping Earth Sustainable http://www.gaia3d.com Tel : +82-(0)2-3397-3475 Fax : +82-(0)2-3397-3478 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
I agree with Jo and Maria. I've always felt welcome in OSGeo primarily because I share many interests and philosophies with many of you. I think gender quotas will in long run do more damage than good. I'd hate to think people think I am where I am because of my gender or that people let me get away with stuff just because of my gender. People should be judged on merit and interest primarily and we should focus more on global expansion, education, and activity funding and the rest will fall into place. Thanks, Regina Obe _ From: discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Jo Cook Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 10:59 AM To: María Arias de Reyna Cc: osgeo Subject: Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations I totally agree with Maria. As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel that my gender matters in the slightest. I'm far more concerned about a bias towards people from the US or Northern/Western Europe if we are trying to be truly global. Jo On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the attention of the whole community. Thanks all, -jeff Agreed. On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am female and not because I worked hard.) I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :) Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important? Regards, María. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jo Cook Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data http://www.isharemaps.com/ integration and publishing platform * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
Thank you everyone for responding (María, Jo, Anne, Madi, Andrea, mpg, Cameron, and Regina). I agree that the OSGeo community is always welcoming, and thank you for confirming that there is no issue with the election/nomination process. It is sometimes hard when I receive direct messages with concerns and thank you for helping me handle it. -jeff On 2014-07-24, 7:41 PM, Paragon Corporation wrote: I agree with Jo and Maria. I've always felt welcome in OSGeo primarily because I share many interests and philosophies with many of you. I think gender quotas will in long run do more damage than good. I'd hate to think people think I am where I am because of my gender or that people let me get away with stuff just because of my gender. People should be judged on merit and interest primarily and we should focus more on global expansion, education, and activity funding and the rest will fall into place. Thanks, Regina Obe *From:* discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Jo Cook *Sent:* Thursday, July 24, 2014 10:59 AM *To:* María Arias de Reyna *Cc:* osgeo *Subject:* Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations I totally agree with Maria. As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel that my gender matters in the slightest. I'm far more concerned about a bias towards people from the US or Northern/Western Europe if we are trying to be truly global. Jo On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com mailto:delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com mailto:jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the attention of the whole community. Thanks all, -jeff Agreed. On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am female and not because I worked hard.) I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :) Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important? Regards, María. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org mailto:Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- ***Jo Cook* Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform http://www.isharemaps.com/ * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Iván Sánchez
Wat. Why is he not a member of OSGeo already? Thanks Iván for the musicals. Also the software. Seconded! SDE On Jul 23, 2014, at 3:23 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Hi all, It's a great honour to nominate Iván Sánchez[1][2] (Spaniard now living in Norway). He is well known by usual FOSS4G attendants by his funny musicals (i.e. [3]) but Iván is much much more than a passionate geonerd. He is one of the main promoters of Open Data and OpenStreetMap in Spain (in fact he's currently the -exiled- president of the OSM.es association); he was for a period member of the Boards of Directors of the OSM Foundation and has leaded many activities around OSM and Open Data in Spain. He usually presents FOSS4G projects on conferences and is also well remembered by the Cake Test for Open Data (specially when he brings cakes to smaller-than-FOSS4G conferences). Iván is a great friend and I'm sure you'll agree he deserves joining the Charter Membership. Cheers [1] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Iv%C3%A1n_S%C3%A1nchez_Ortega [2] https://github.com/ivansanchez [3] http://vimeo.com/29203100 [4] https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2009/11/11/921/ -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Jukka Rahkonen
I know right? +1 for Jukka. On Jul 24, 2014 3:28 PM, Andrea Aime andrea.a...@geo-solutions.it wrote: What, Jukka is not yet charter member??? Of course +1 Cheers Andrea On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:54 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Jukka nomination by Even Rouault Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Even Rouault Date: 2014-07-21 20:35 GMT+02:00 Subject: OSGeo Charter Member Nomination: Jukka Rahkonen To: c...@osgeo.org Cc: Jukka Rahkonen Dear OSGeo community, I'd like to nominate Jukka Rahkonen, from Finland, for OSGeo charter membership. Jukka is one of the few people who belong to several PSCs of our OSGeo projects, namely Geoserver since 2012 and GDAL since 2013 (and among the very few to make the bridge between the Java and C/C++ tribes !) As far as GDAL is concerned, Jukka is one of our most active power users since many years. You've probably noticed him many times answering to questions from other users on the mailing list, testing bleeding edge trunk or doing precise bug reports. It was a pleasure for me to finally meet him in person at Nottingham last year. Jukka is also involved into other OSGeo (or related) communities such as MapServer, TinyOWS or Spatialite, which gives him a quite broad vision in the geospatial field. Jukka also maintains Finnish translations for OpenJUMP and Kosmo GIS and has given a workshop on GeoPackage in the Finnish OSGeo seminar this year. Even -- Geospatial professional services http://even.rouault.free.fr/services.html -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- == GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit http://goo.gl/NWWaa2 for more information. == Ing. Andrea Aime @geowolf Technical Lead GeoSolutions S.A.S. Via Poggio alle Viti 1187 55054 Massarosa (LU) Italy phone: +39 0584 962313 fax: +39 0584 1660272 mob: +39 339 8844549 http://www.geo-solutions.it http://twitter.com/geosolutions_it --- ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] [Election 2014] Nomination for Andrea Antonello
I second this nomination. I know Andrea mostly through his work on Geopaparazzi [0]. You can find more about Andrea's contributions through his github account [1] or his involvement in email lists [2][3] Best regards, Eli [0] https://geopaparazzi.github.io/geopaparazzi/ [1] https://github.com/moovida [2] http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=user_nodesuser=194479 [3] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/geopaparazzi-users On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:03 PM, Jorge Sanz js...@osgeo.org wrote: Forwarding Andrea Antonello nomination by Luca Delucchi Best Jorge -- Forwarded message -- From: Luca Delucchi Date: 2014-07-24 8:44 GMT+02:00 Subject: Andrea Antonello nomination To: c...@osgeo.org I would like to nominate Andrea Antonello as Charter Member. He is long time contributor to several OSGeo Java project. http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo_Advocate#Andrea_Antonello -- Jorge Sanz http://www.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Gender bias in nominations
Reclaiming Like a girl to no longer be an insult highlights that language is an important part of our interactions. While on campaigns, here are another two specifically on tech and gender, both with major corporate backing [0][1]. Circling back to OSGeo Charter Member nominations, Jeff received a report that there are not enough female nominees. The most direct way to address this is to think of the people you know and interact with, if some of those people are women and have the positive attributes [2] in the recommended membership selection criteria, nominate them or bring that person's contributions and positive attributes to the attention of someone else who can nominate them. You can run through a mental list of who you think already is or should be a Charter Member and then see if it is true [3] and then nominate them. You can do this whether you think that there are enough female nominees or not. You can also use this process for men. While commenting on nominations, I'll share that the best nominations provided a relevant summary and support it with some links. Nominations in this form make it easy to evaluate and determine that the nominee has the positive attributes sought in Charter Members [2]. Best regards, Eli [0] http://www.verizon.com/powerfulanswers/inspirehermind/ [1] https://www.madewithcode.com/ [2] http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Membership_Process#Positive_Attributes [3] http://www.osgeo.org/charter_members On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Cameron Shorter cameron.shor...@gmail.com wrote: For those interested in gender bias, you might want to look at this Like a girl campaign, which questions the meaning that Like a girl has in our language, and suggests redefining it. http://m.dailylife.com.au/life-and-love/parenting-and-families/the-advertising-campaign-that-will-make-you-proud-to-run-like-a-girl-20140627-3ax9w.html?utm_source=socialutm_medium=facebookutm_campaign=juneeid=socialn:fac-13omn1676-edtrl-other:nnn-17/02/2014-edtrs_socialshare-all-nnn-nnn-vars-o On 25/07/2014 12:59 am, Jo Cook wrote: I totally agree with Maria. As a female member of OSGeo I don't really feel that my gender matters in the slightest. I'm far more concerned about a bias towards people from the US or Northern/Western Europe if we are trying to be truly global. Jo On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, María Arias de Reyna delawen+os...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Jeff McKenna jmcke...@gatewaygeomatics.com wrote: It has been reported to me directly that there are not enough female nominations for Charter members. I just want to bring this to the attention of the whole community. Thanks all, -jeff Agreed. On the other hand, no one should be nominated just because of their gender. In the long run, it doesn't help increasing female numbers. (It won't be the first time someone thinks I am where I am just because I am female and not because I worked hard.) I'm sorry if I am bothering someone, but I am very picky with all this stuff. It is the eternal discussion about not having enough female in tech organizations. If we want to have more female on OsGeo, we should go to school now to have them in OsGeo in a few years :) Until then, does it really matter? Are we doing things different? I know it looks very cool to have half and half but, is it really important? Regards, María. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Jo Cook Astun Technology Ltd, The Coach House, 17 West Street, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 7RL, UK t:+44 7930 524 155 iShare - Data integration and publishing platform * Company registration no. 5410695. Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: 120 Manor Green Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT19 8LN VAT no. 864201149. ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Cameron Shorter, Software and Data Solutions Manager LISAsoft Suite 112, Jones Bay Wharf, 26 - 32 Pirrama Rd, Pyrmont NSW 2009 P +61 2 9009 5000, W www.lisasoft.com, F +61 2 9009 5099 ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
