Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Jeffrey Johnson

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2016-09-26 10:52 AM, Jorge Sanz wrote:

On 25 September 2016 at 20:46, Jeffrey Johnson  wrote:

IRC would be easiest, but a little less 'real-time'. I'd be happy to
participate anywhere/any time we could reach a critical mass of
participants both from the candidates and community.

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Sandro Santilli  wrote:

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:59:05AM -0700, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:


Happy to answer any questions here or via other channels. Can we have
a hangout 'debate'? :)


If you do, please use a free software alternative, not "hangout".
Here's one: https://meet.jit.si/osgeo

Or even better (requires less resources to partecipate):
  irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo
  also accessible (same place) as:
  https://webchat.freenode.net/#osgeo


Sandro, the correct link is: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=osgeo

-jeff



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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Jeffrey Johnson

[Jeff McKenna]

On 2016-09-25 3:04 PM, Sandro Santilli wrote:


If you do, please use a free software alternative, not "hangout".



  also accessible (same place) as:
  https://webchat.freenode.net/#osgeo


Sandro, the correct link is http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=osgeo

-jeff


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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Jeffrey Johnson

[Marc Vloemans]

Hi

I think it is a great initiative. 
I am open for question/answer session (I do not see any point in discussion 
among candidates)
If time is known well in advance, I am happy to adapt my work schedule at 
everyone's convenience.



Kind regards,
Marc Vloemans


> Op 26 sep. 2016 om 15:52 heeft Jorge Sanz  het volgende 
> geschreven:
> 
>> On 25 September 2016 at 20:46, Jeffrey Johnson  wrote:
>> IRC would be easiest, but a little less 'real-time'. I'd be happy to
>> participate anywhere/any time we could reach a critical mass of
>> participants both from the candidates and community.
>> 
>>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Sandro Santilli  wrote:
 On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:59:05AM -0700, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
 
 Happy to answer any questions here or via other channels. Can we have
 a hangout 'debate'? :)
>>> 
>>> If you do, please use a free software alternative, not "hangout".
>>> Here's one: https://meet.jit.si/osgeo
>>> 
>>> Or even better (requires less resources to partecipate):
>>>  irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo
>>>  also accessible (same place) as:
>>>  https://webchat.freenode.net/#osgeo
>>>  or
>>>  https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#osgeo
>>> 
>>> --strk;
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> 
> 
> HI,
> 
> I can help on organizing this, no problem.
> 
> But we need support from the rest of the candidates, since it wasn't
> planned and can be challenging with the different timezones but since
> it's just US/Europe, it's doable.
> 
> What other candidates think? Personally I'm fine with the nominations
> + manifestos but if you think an open discussion is worth I'm glad to
> do it ASAP.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- 
> Jorge Sanz
> http://www.osgeo.org
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Jeffrey Johnson

[Jeffrey Johnson]

Yeah, just realizing time is really tight now. Perhaps we just keep it
as an idea for next year?

On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 7:01 AM, María Arias de Reyna  wrote:
> I think it is a bit difficult at this point,  but if you can find a way, I'm
> in.
>
>
> El 26 sept. 2016 15:53, "Jorge Sanz"  escribió:
>>
>> On 25 September 2016 at 20:46, Jeffrey Johnson  wrote:
>> > IRC would be easiest, but a little less 'real-time'. I'd be happy to
>> > participate anywhere/any time we could reach a critical mass of
>> > participants both from the candidates and community.
>> >
>> > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Sandro Santilli  wrote:
>> >> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:59:05AM -0700, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Happy to answer any questions here or via other channels. Can we have
>> >>> a hangout 'debate'? :)
>> >>
>> >> If you do, please use a free software alternative, not "hangout".
>> >> Here's one: https://meet.jit.si/osgeo
>> >>
>> >> Or even better (requires less resources to partecipate):
>> >>   irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo
>> >>   also accessible (same place) as:
>> >>   https://webchat.freenode.net/#osgeo
>> >>   or
>> >>   https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#osgeo
>> >>
>> >> --strk;
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>> > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
>> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>>
>>
>> HI,
>>
>> I can help on organizing this, no problem.
>>
>> But we need support from the rest of the candidates, since it wasn't
>> planned and can be challenging with the different timezones but since
>> it's just US/Europe, it's doable.
>>
>> What other candidates think? Personally I'm fine with the nominations
>> + manifestos but if you think an open discussion is worth I'm glad to
>> do it ASAP.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> --
>> Jorge Sanz
>> http://www.osgeo.org
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Jeffrey Johnson

[María Arias de Reyna]

I think it is a bit difficult at this point,  but if you can find a way,
I'm in.

El 26 sept. 2016 15:53, "Jorge Sanz"  escribió:

> On 25 September 2016 at 20:46, Jeffrey Johnson  wrote:
> > IRC would be easiest, but a little less 'real-time'. I'd be happy to
> > participate anywhere/any time we could reach a critical mass of
> > participants both from the candidates and community.
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Sandro Santilli  wrote:
> >> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:59:05AM -0700, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> >>
> >>> Happy to answer any questions here or via other channels. Can we have
> >>> a hangout 'debate'? :)
> >>
> >> If you do, please use a free software alternative, not "hangout".
> >> Here's one: https://meet.jit.si/osgeo
> >>
> >> Or even better (requires less resources to partecipate):
> >>   irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo
> >>   also accessible (same place) as:
> >>   https://webchat.freenode.net/#osgeo
> >>   or
> >>   https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#osgeo
> >>
> >> --strk;
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> > Discuss@lists.osgeo.org
> > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
>
>
> HI,
>
> I can help on organizing this, no problem.
>
> But we need support from the rest of the candidates, since it wasn't
> planned and can be challenging with the different timezones but since
> it's just US/Europe, it's doable.
>
> What other candidates think? Personally I'm fine with the nominations
> + manifestos but if you think an open discussion is worth I'm glad to
> do it ASAP.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Jorge Sanz
> http://www.osgeo.org
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Jeffrey Johnson

[Jorge Sanz]

On 25 September 2016 at 20:46, Jeffrey Johnson  wrote:
> IRC would be easiest, but a little less 'real-time'. I'd be happy to
> participate anywhere/any time we could reach a critical mass of
> participants both from the candidates and community.
>
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Sandro Santilli  wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 08:59:05AM -0700, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
>>
>>> Happy to answer any questions here or via other channels. Can we have
>>> a hangout 'debate'? :)
>>
>> If you do, please use a free software alternative, not "hangout".
>> Here's one: https://meet.jit.si/osgeo
>>
>> Or even better (requires less resources to partecipate):
>>   irc://irc.freenode.net/#osgeo
>>   also accessible (same place) as:
>>   https://webchat.freenode.net/#osgeo
>>   or
>>   https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/#osgeo
>>
>> --strk;
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HI,

I can help on organizing this, no problem.

But we need support from the rest of the candidates, since it wasn't
planned and can be challenging with the different timezones but since
it's just US/Europe, it's doable.

What other candidates think? Personally I'm fine with the nominations
+ manifestos but if you think an open discussion is worth I'm glad to
do it ASAP.

Cheers

-- 
Jorge Sanz
http://www.osgeo.org
http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Jorge_Sanz
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Campaign statement for Marc Vloemans

[Marc VLOEMANS]

Dear Charter members et al,

For those of you that I have not had the pleasure to meet, drink and/or
work with, I am Marc Vloemans. Since 2000 I have been instrumental in
raising the profile for open source in general in The Netherlands and
abroad. More specifically, I have been active as a market and business
developer for open spatial IT; finding and convincing end-users.

My strategies, tactics and methods to achieve more traction for open
spatial IT include(d) writing books, articles and blogs, acting as a
lobbyist with Dutch and EU Parliament, setting up a market leading Dutch
open GIS company, organising a cooperation of open spatial IT players, LOC
FOSS4G Bonn and Dutch Local Chapter memberships, OSGeo Marketing Chair and
the like.

Besides I have served and still serve on various (non-)profit boards.
This is where my past experiences, learnings and achievements ultimately
come together and hopefully complement those of my fellow board members.
Our projects and local chapters are the corner stones of OSGeo. As
Marketing Chair I am in the process of organising a bottom up approach to
our strategic direction. I hope to close the loop as a Board member; from
strategy to implementation.

Judging from the list of great candidates I am pretty sure I can contribute
my own unique skills and experience to cast our open spatial net farther
afield then ever before. Building bridges towards adjacent communities,
reaching out to new geographical and sectoral user groups, engaging our own
community..

Please feel free to contact me for more information.
Thank you for your time and my nomination.

Kind regards,

Marc Vloemans

Email: marcvloema...@gmail.com
Mobile +31(0)651 844262
LinkedIn: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/marcvloemans
Twitter: http://twitter.com/marcvloemans
http://www.slideshare.net/marcvloemans
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[OSGeo-Discuss] Candidate Statement for Nicolas Bozon

[nicolas bozon]

Dear OSGeo,

First of all, thank you for nominating and considering me as a potential
OSGeo director.
This is a great honor to take part to this election and to run along with
good and numerous candidates. Only 25% of us will get a sit this year,
exciting !
Charter Members, a real choice is given to you this time so please make use
of your votes ! I a writing this statement to tell you why you should
consider giving me one.
It is also available on the wiki [1], if you are more confortable with
reading long text in a web page rather than in your email client.

About me
-
I am a cartographer in daylight hours, and a UI/UX designer in the night
time.
I have a deep interest into everything visual and love to create
(geo)graphics that may add value to open source technology.
I've came to open source GIS during my PhD back in 2006, while i was
looking for tools and libraries that i could fully control in order to
achieve my research goals.
It did not take long at that time to realize how relevant OSGeo was,
adapt/extend the software to my needs, attend my first FOSS4G, and then
just feel like at home in our community.
I've been using, designing and promoting open source technologies since
that time, alternating research and business experiences, and sometime make
them interact the good way :)
Please find more details about me on my OSGeo user page [2] and Linkedin
profile [3].

My vision
-
Today, my passion and commitment towards the OSGeo Foundation have never
been stronger. Looking at our global growth and significant achievements in
term of technology, education and outreach activities, I am even more proud
to be part of such a lively, determined and clever community.
However, OSGeo has entered an important transition period and i believe it
needs to evolve now in order to strengthen its aura and adoption across the
broader geospatial community and industry. Of course OSGeo needs to be more
inclusive, not only about people, country or gender, but also about
software projects, collaborations and the numerous ways of doing open
source, open data and open knowledge.
I believe the Foundation especially needs to find a more appropriate
balance between the non-for-profit, academic and business approaches, but
also between individual and collective interest and way of thinking. It
must also avoid loosing time and energy with useless conflicts, baseless
rumors or low level politics. Implement change probably means taking more
risks, that's why we also need to be careful to protect our open culture
and principles at the same time.
Charter members also need to be empowered in a more effective way according
to me, and every meaningful initiative that meets our goals should be
encouraged and supported.
Enough about governance :) You understood that i am in favor of enhancing
our do-ocraty a bit, and why not mix it with some democratics flavors as we
grow.
Another very important point of my vision is that OSGeo must become more
visible and accessible through a very clear meassage and image, with a
stronger and modern identity.
Everything is in our hands to show the value of our work better, and that
would significantly help us to get the most out of our 501(c)(4) status
IMHO.

What you have done within the community in the past
-
I am a Charter member since 2011 and a Marketing Committe Member since 2012.
I have already been nominated for the Board elections in 2012 [4].
I co-founded ZOO-Project [5] in late 2008 with the goal to provide an open
platform able to make OSGeo librairies communicate with each other. This
was achieved using a cross-project approach and by implementing WPS, which
i've been promoting worldwide along with co-founders since then.
Later on, I co-funded MapMint [6], the 100% service-oriented SDI, in order
to bring the full power of ZOO and MapServer to end users. Not only to
developers.
Most recently, i created mapskin [7], the visual language for geospatial.
This one provides scalable vector icons illustrating concepts and objects
of modern cartography in a clean iconic web font. Please help your self :)
I am also keen on participating in FOSS4G events organization and had the
great pleasure to help for FOSS4G-FR 2014 (program and web), FOSS4G-Asia
2014 (web/print), FOSS4G-Europe 2015 (web) and FOSS4G 2016 (program). I am
presently working on FOSS4G-Asia 2017 (LOC) and FOSS4G-Europe 2017 (LOC).

Any things that you would like to change or introduce
-
I would like to improve OSGeo marketing and branding, and i suggest the Web
and Marketing Committees should merge now to do so.
Mark' Comm recently rebooted and is now fully conscious that our marketing
activities must go way beyond OSGeo-Live, including a stronger identity,
modern branding assets, up-to-dates exhibition packs, a much better web
presence, media coverage and more.